To witness entrails spilling out, children with their heads separated from their small bodies, and then to witness the humans who have dedicated their lives to be the best in human-created sports with human-created rules. It is all so much.
The competition for land, for a President, to be the “superior race,” “the superior gender,” to produce more electronics, to have the biggest house, to be the most “dominant,” the most expensive clothes, the highest position, to excavate and steal the most minerals, to eradicate entire peoples. The fastest, highest, most. This is Empire’s competition.
Competition is so embedded in capitalist colonialism that it can simultaneously take the shape of all of those. How dare they make us compete to live, compete to survive.
So I say again, as I have stated many times, what if instead of trying to be the best, we just try to be free?
Individualism will not and can not lead to liberation.
Liberation will not come through competition.
May we fight for a world and to be with each other with interdependence and not individualism. With compassion and not competition. May we take down the system that tries to tell us what we want and need. And may we all find that all we have been seeking is in liberation and community.
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