I'm excited for this oat milk phase of my life.
It feels good to live by at least something ethically. I know that I'm not perfectly ethical in my lifestyle, but I try fairly often to think about a more ethical or compassionate way to live in society. There are small things like using my money to donate to things like Wikipedia and journalism, stuff I find personally to be of incredibly high value to society.I don't usually like donating to viral charities I guess, because I am skeptical and to me they don't really ever address the larger problem, which is massive inequality, and this is more complex than giving a few poor souls a million dollars for their lifesaving $400,000 surgery, for which they need to win the hearts and minds of people on Facebook. I think it's a good thing for that person, but I don't think that it's an ideal reflection of a society. To me it's insane that someone can look at these stories and think it's heartwarming when in reality is a fucking dystopian nightmare we were warned about so many times prior. We've had every opportunity as a global community yet we have allowed societies to be structured in a way where the richest, deepest pockets control the vast majority of decisions that happened in within and between countries. If you're super rich, you can dictate to countries - how insane is that? A single person/coalition of rich decision-makers can dictate to entire nations of people.
We outnumber those that won capitalism - they should not be taking advantage of us for their own benefit. Is that an example of psychopathic behaviour, or is it just detachment from their actions and the ripples caused by? What's worse is that billionaire envy is real and is seen as something to strive for at any cost - if one could only work hard enough to achieve it.
In my opinion, it really comes down to class warfare - punching down from the ultra rich and the political class which enable and empower them in constant stasis like a tensegrity handjob. If you have a lot of wealth, you're like an obese kid squeezing through a crowded pool. No matter which way you turn your going to make a lot of waves and displace a lot of people. They are like Godzilla trying to walk peacefully through Tokyo - it just can't be done. They've got their own social gravity. Social gravity is already a term but it's meaning isn't as cool as my meaning, as it refers to brands having gravity and marketing people ask 'How do you achieve social gravity?' as it's sort of like a target rather than a defined jargonistic academic phrase.
I want to know why there are so many people spending all their time on social media and why are we not doing more about this? This is messing up peoples lives in terms of mental health. How has the government not stepped in and properly regulated these for-profit businesses which are leeching eyeball time and mental health from their populaces?
I like to think of morality as a scale between 0 and 1. Almost everyone sits in between, but how in-between depends on how likely they are to stray from moral 1 that society has set and agreed upon. It's really hard to not be any kind of in-between. To be closer to moral 1, means taking the high road more often than not. I don't know anyone in my life that I would consider strictly morally adherent in the positive direction and do the 1 thing every time. That's okay though - it's basically impossible task especially considering our underlying biological wiring and lizard brains which take over.
With of course the exception that privilege brings. But hey, I drink oat milk now, so I'm a good person /S
