A Future

What we want isn’t a utopian dream or a radical redefinition of our lives. What we want is reasonable, attainable, and most of all benefits just about everyone. The only people that don’t want a better world for everyone are those who are addicted to power and control, those that would prefer hoard privilege and wield cruelty even if that means driving humanity to extinction.

What we want is simple, freedom. The freedom to live our lives as we choose and as our authentic selves. Freedom from an economic system the forces us to work for a boss to earn wages that are then handed over to our landlord, leaving us with barely enough to survive today let alone to build a future for ourselves.

We are fighting for the freedom from the bigotries and violence created by those who profit from the severance of our common humanity. We want the freedom to join together and organize a community that sees to our shared needs, faces our common problems, and creates a future for us and our descendants. Our bonds as fellows, family, and friends are much stronger than the greed, exploitation, and superiority of the rich and powerful; which is why they never leave us alone to simply live. When we provide for ourselves and solve our own problems amongst ourselves, we have no reason to agree to our own exploitation.

If we are accepted as ourselves and except others as themselves, we don’t need to buy entry into their artificial hierarchy. We don’t have to eternally compete against those who write and rewrite the rules of a game that serves their unstable illusions built on the violence and repression they inflict on us.

We want a world where monsters have no ability to command others to kill and be killed. The formula of “today’s solutions are the gateway to tomorrow’s problems” has led us to grim final solutions repeatedly. The law and order we are told they maintain serves their common good not ours.

We want the abundance of human efficiency and technology for everyone, not the unsustainable artificial scarcity of their capitol. Food deserts in our communities are not natural geography, they are created by the powerful. The housing crisis was created by landlords, not by people needing a place to live. Why should we let these things continue?

We want the power to govern ourselves.  Anything less is slavery.