Normal
People go about their business every day, eating, drinking, farting talking, walking, sleeping… everything is normal.
Or is it? Would you do the things you do if you weren’t compelled? If you were redesigning society, would you have so much of the space around you taken up by concrete? Would you have everyone jostling and pushing and slouching their way to work in areas were they have to push and jostle and slouch to get too? Would you allow one person to “own” so much of the world that they will never see or use it all themselves when some people live in one room (or none)?
If you were redesigning the world, would you allow a system were the kind of food some people can just about afford is slowly killing them? Would you allow some people to bore holes in the ground and bottle water to sell, while others have to conserve as they “are using too much water” flushing away their effluence? Or drinking to survive?
Would you allow a system were the people who are having to be prioritised in a health system are the very ill (because the “cure” or treatment can be commoditised and sold) and not the education of those who can stay healthy?
Were education is said to be great because in middle class areas, children “do well” and it is said to be lacking in schools were most of the children come from families who struggle to survive?
Would you have borders?
Would you allow people to become poverty stricken, ill, drug addicts, alchoholics and failures because someone has decided that the jobs they had must go to somewhere were peoples labour is less valuable?
Would you allow people to die horrible deaths because someone somewhere else needs cheap petrol for their SUV?
How would you change the system?
This week I have been mostly eatng pasta.
