@ingrid it is really bleak. a bright spot: the perfect sentences you post

@ingrid In USSR, we got by by dreaming about escaping from the evil empire, or escaping innerly, into the work where the empire doesn't interfere.

@ingrid @jwz

Their job is to make you feel comfortable with it so you can go back to working for it

When a bird flies up at your feet, you feel startled, naturally. When civilization collapses, how SHOULD you feel?

@ingrid@everything.happens.horsHalf a century ago the Socialist Patients' Collective in Germany published many texts outlining a theory on the "Identity of Illness and Capital". Their writing suffers from the heavy marxist framing, but it is a neglected proposal whose actuality I am reminded of regularly.
http://www.spkpfh.de/index_english.html