cutting us off from the world economy, crashing the market, induced unemployment, all chasing the dream of "recreating the 1950s" isn't actually going to solve these problems. it's going to drive up the price of consumer goods without doing a damn thing about the housing crisis. womp womp

Africa by Toto puts me into an incoherent, irrational rage. And Good Vibrations by the Beachboys activates my fight-or-flight response lol

I will never resent people for being free unless they pull up the ladder behind them or their freedom is predicated on someone else’s oppression, in which case that’s not real freedom.

I will ask, as Toni Morrison encouraged us to, how they are using their freedom to free others