comcastkills:

holybrat:

morphodyke:

hot take: the capitalist cultural construction of “humans are naturally greedy and self-centered” is just an attenuated version of the feudal christian construction of “humans are inherently sinful”; both are designed to make people internalize cultural problems and externalize morality.

building off that hot take: western individualism (the American Dream, meritocracy, “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” mentality) is actually a hopelessly sentimental cultural fantasy that stems from this toxic capitalist conceit, and it’s high time we start admitting in our personal lives and in our public policy that humans actually live in dynamic and overlapping webs of inter-dependency

it’s this capitalist mindset that makes my struggling with disabilities ten times worse.

“you’re a parasite for needing assistance, why don’t you just work harder? you don’t deserve help.”

capitalism kills, externally and internally