I found this article to be very well meaning but confused or mislead..the people she refers to as “weak or downtrodden or ill” are usually very oppressed people who are facing racial, gender based or other forms of discrimination, oppression by the state, denial of land rights, over work, under pay, mass poisoning by cumulative agricultural poisons that cause metabolic poisoning too, people stressed and poisoned into cancer, illness, weakness, sometimes obesity from stress and poisoning and even death..
If she think people are the problem not the system that stomps them into mental and physical illness.then I just think she is focusing on the wrong thing..fix the system that destroys and kills so many people..
If by fixing the "system," you mean elevating those people as role models, you are just as misguided. If by fixing the system, you mean "voting" again misguided. If by "fixing the system," you mean suing or making the problem well known, again misguided. If you mean throwing money at the downtrodden... sheesh. What does it take to realize that elevating victims to models as victims doesn't fix anything. Individuals are downtrodden but certainly, more government has never been the answer.
You use the name "Erin Brochovic," that's ironic to me. Last I heard, the people of Flint still don't have good water. All that press, all that attention in the mainstream, all the money thrown at the victims who will be sick for life, and yet, the best people can do, and I mean this literally living somewhere with really bad water, is to filter every drop of their own water.
We rent so putting a whole house water filter here is impossible and expensive. Should I wait until we get really sick and then sue to be taken care of with loads of money just to cover our medical bills? Is that the answer? Or, do I prioritize as I have getting a water filter for cooking, using distilled for drinking, putting half-ass filters on our showers and hoping that's enough knowing that some of the washing will still be toxic but not too bad?
Personally, I think my answer is better in the long and the short run. I could go problem by problem to show you that the system is already "fixed." The solutions are ones that must be done individually. I think too of the air quality issues where I live. I know the CDC has been caught lying to cover up the local environmental threat of bad air quality. They also reduced the standards. With local industries in control of the state, I don't expect them to make changes until their employees organize against their own company to fix it. For now, most are content to live in the lie. They don't want to risk going against their employers or even thinking they have any personal power to change things. They would much rather vote and look to the govt owned and operated by their employers to intervene on their behalf *should that government tell them the truth about how its owners and operators have been poisoning their air. Holding your breath isn't the answer.
If solutions needs to be enacted on a larger scale, make sure people understand to place their crowd sourced money towards individual answers and whatever power they may be given in the fixed system must be used to liberate and unburden themselves from it. We must be the change we wish to see in the world.
If you can donate or drum up donations, I would hope you'd use it for direct help. Using it to try to fix a rigged system is a waste of effort and resources that could have gone directly to the problem. In the case of EB, how many of the people spent the money moving or putting whole house water filters on? Just curious? How many people moved into their properties and were using the same crappy water, pipes, etc for decades before having their own health challenges?
The thing is, we only get one body. If we prioritize iphones, toys, clothes, cars or anything else over our health, we are laying the groundwork for destruction. If as individuals we value outsourcing the care of our food, air and water so we can focus on ladder climbing or really anything else but our own health, knowledge and liberation, we are doing ourselves a grave disservice.
To every one of those people, like myself I say "don't trust the system, trust yourself." Only you can create the world you want to live in and you have to start with your little world. You won't get anywhere if those around you are happy to wallow in their problems and their victimhood and stay deaf to their own health issues and seriousness until it's way too late.
As long as our culture values victimhood, outsourcing personal responsibility and abdication of knowledge, we are not making any progress. This culture created the fixed system. If we don't shift our values, we can't shift the culture, and we can't release the public's desperate grip to this broken system.
I found this article to be very well meaning but confused or mislead..the people she refers to as “weak or downtrodden or ill” are usually very oppressed people who are facing racial, gender based or other forms of discrimination, oppression by the state, denial of land rights, over work, under pay, mass poisoning by cumulative agricultural poisons that cause metabolic poisoning too, people stressed and poisoned into cancer, illness, weakness, sometimes obesity from stress and poisoning and even death..
If she think people are the problem not the system that stomps them into mental and physical illness.then I just think she is focusing on the wrong thing..fix the system that destroys and kills so many people..
If by fixing the "system," you mean elevating those people as role models, you are just as misguided. If by fixing the system, you mean "voting" again misguided. If by "fixing the system," you mean suing or making the problem well known, again misguided. If you mean throwing money at the downtrodden... sheesh. What does it take to realize that elevating victims to models as victims doesn't fix anything. Individuals are downtrodden but certainly, more government has never been the answer.
You use the name "Erin Brochovic," that's ironic to me. Last I heard, the people of Flint still don't have good water. All that press, all that attention in the mainstream, all the money thrown at the victims who will be sick for life, and yet, the best people can do, and I mean this literally living somewhere with really bad water, is to filter every drop of their own water.
We rent so putting a whole house water filter here is impossible and expensive. Should I wait until we get really sick and then sue to be taken care of with loads of money just to cover our medical bills? Is that the answer? Or, do I prioritize as I have getting a water filter for cooking, using distilled for drinking, putting half-ass filters on our showers and hoping that's enough knowing that some of the washing will still be toxic but not too bad?
Personally, I think my answer is better in the long and the short run. I could go problem by problem to show you that the system is already "fixed." The solutions are ones that must be done individually. I think too of the air quality issues where I live. I know the CDC has been caught lying to cover up the local environmental threat of bad air quality. They also reduced the standards. With local industries in control of the state, I don't expect them to make changes until their employees organize against their own company to fix it. For now, most are content to live in the lie. They don't want to risk going against their employers or even thinking they have any personal power to change things. They would much rather vote and look to the govt owned and operated by their employers to intervene on their behalf *should that government tell them the truth about how its owners and operators have been poisoning their air. Holding your breath isn't the answer.
If solutions needs to be enacted on a larger scale, make sure people understand to place their crowd sourced money towards individual answers and whatever power they may be given in the fixed system must be used to liberate and unburden themselves from it. We must be the change we wish to see in the world.
If you can donate or drum up donations, I would hope you'd use it for direct help. Using it to try to fix a rigged system is a waste of effort and resources that could have gone directly to the problem. In the case of EB, how many of the people spent the money moving or putting whole house water filters on? Just curious? How many people moved into their properties and were using the same crappy water, pipes, etc for decades before having their own health challenges?
The thing is, we only get one body. If we prioritize iphones, toys, clothes, cars or anything else over our health, we are laying the groundwork for destruction. If as individuals we value outsourcing the care of our food, air and water so we can focus on ladder climbing or really anything else but our own health, knowledge and liberation, we are doing ourselves a grave disservice.
To every one of those people, like myself I say "don't trust the system, trust yourself." Only you can create the world you want to live in and you have to start with your little world. You won't get anywhere if those around you are happy to wallow in their problems and their victimhood and stay deaf to their own health issues and seriousness until it's way too late.
As long as our culture values victimhood, outsourcing personal responsibility and abdication of knowledge, we are not making any progress. This culture created the fixed system. If we don't shift our values, we can't shift the culture, and we can't release the public's desperate grip to this broken system.
Victimhood is the only thing heroic to the Left.
Great article!
Thank you!