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seeyatI find it problematic that I was a Boy Scout for 10 years of my childhood, then I fell in love with feminist music, like Le Tigre and Emilie Autumn in my late teens... and one of my favorite bops was Don't Go by Fefe Dobson. ...favorite artists were P!nk and Evanescence while I wasn't brooding with My Chemical Romance, AFI, Nine Inch Nails or A Perfect Circle and any number of niche artists like HIM, Type O Negative or a selection of Punk artists.
...and I'm still surrounded by community which contrasts the whole interdependent message of all such music, when you break it down to core values and intention.
I've never been one to support collective division like I see in this country, today. Sure, I listened to the song Proud To Be An American but that was also always on the same burned CDs as I'm Afraid of Americans by Bowie and Reznor. I've also been compiling a rather comprehensive playlist of music for about 20 years, which points to the flaws in how this country commands and divides with money, resource restriction and bigotry.
It's a reminder to have empathy and healthy doubt.
...and I don't want children.
There's an article I read a while ago titled "The Childfree Are Ungovernable" and that examines reasons that I agree with... childfree people are more individualistic and unpredictable. They don't throw every penny into raising and caring for kids. Sometimes they start small businesses, sometimes they travel, sometimes they start and manage volunteer organizations, sometimes they build creative startups which thrive or fail and sometimes they live on a ranch with a thousand animals.
Of course, just as parents, sometimes they fall victim to societal stress, social pressures, drugs, substances and alcoholism which spirals them into self-destructive places of pity and premature death.
We have far too many people who agree when someone says, "Everybody's doing it" and who jump on the bandwagon when someone says, "Nobody does that." ...impossible absolutes.
Harmful by nature; restrictive and invalidating.
There's far more possibility in this world than many are willing to acknowledge, let alone accept.
I still believe in us. I believe we're able to enact social change and societal healing by working with one another in curious and empathic ways.
...and I'm still surrounded by community which contrasts the whole interdependent message of all such music, when you break it down to core values and intention.
I've never been one to support collective division like I see in this country, today. Sure, I listened to the song Proud To Be An American but that was also always on the same burned CDs as I'm Afraid of Americans by Bowie and Reznor. I've also been compiling a rather comprehensive playlist of music for about 20 years, which points to the flaws in how this country commands and divides with money, resource restriction and bigotry.
It's a reminder to have empathy and healthy doubt.
...and I don't want children.
There's an article I read a while ago titled "The Childfree Are Ungovernable" and that examines reasons that I agree with... childfree people are more individualistic and unpredictable. They don't throw every penny into raising and caring for kids. Sometimes they start small businesses, sometimes they travel, sometimes they start and manage volunteer organizations, sometimes they build creative startups which thrive or fail and sometimes they live on a ranch with a thousand animals.
Of course, just as parents, sometimes they fall victim to societal stress, social pressures, drugs, substances and alcoholism which spirals them into self-destructive places of pity and premature death.
We have far too many people who agree when someone says, "Everybody's doing it" and who jump on the bandwagon when someone says, "Nobody does that." ...impossible absolutes.
Harmful by nature; restrictive and invalidating.
There's far more possibility in this world than many are willing to acknowledge, let alone accept.
I still believe in us. I believe we're able to enact social change and societal healing by working with one another in curious and empathic ways.
