Free to Repress Others

In many places, ingesting marijuana is still a criminal offense. A repressive state puts people in jail who haven’t harmed anyone. Why is that? We know it’s not harmful, especially compared to alcohol. Harmful or not, what happened to freedom of choice?

Capitalism promotes an “us against them” attitude that fools us into sometimes acting and voting against our best interests. The McCarthy era persecutions attacked those who represented political choice other than market rule.

We live in a system that represses our humanity. Individualism and pulling ourselves up by the bootstraps is also what animals manage to do. Humans are a social construct, which is why most of us want to help each other and understand fulfillment better than our financial superiors.

People enjoy entertaining each other, and there’s value in that. Disneyland is a popular escape, but the corporation is an example of our twisted ideals. Their shareholders suffer a lack of non-monetized values, and this fulfillment challenged condition has allowed them to order that the price of admission repeatedly jump beyond any possible justifiable costs. This removes Disneyland as a choice for those who need it most. Maybe cruelty is fulfilling for sociopaths.

Some people who could use public health care find themselves in our easily accessible prison industry. Education is attacked to promote ignorance and allow economic unfairness.
Living in a repressive society is a drag.

Fear and hate are not our best guides. Disharmony is promoted by the status quo in order to delay the day we have a social structure rule the economy, and not the other way around.
Instead of cowardly sterilizing our worthless lives, we should bravely accept some risk and welcome change and diversity. Sure, there’s always a chance you can lose, but we’re not winning now and the path to fulfillment is clear.