6/24/22 The day scotus Broke

I’m not sure about all of you, but I am struggling to process. I’m mostly feeling numb and trying to find the anger that is necessary in this moment. I’m honestly not sure that we should get ourselves rolled up in these culture wars. I think this keeps us from the bigger problem of the growing gap in the classes, the campaign finance reform that is necessary to give individuals the same access to our government as corporations and special interest groups, and the need to address why good people with huge hearts fall in love with known liars and all around scummy people who are not going to make their lives better. I want a populace that is we taken care of and who wants their neighbors to be taken care of as well. Call me crazy, but I believe that financially stable people and emotionally healthy people would cut down on a lot of crime. I think it’s crazy that 1% of the people own the majority of the wealth in this country and people still believe that a minimum wage of $15/hour is too high.

One of my favorite quotes is from Sir Thomas Moore’s Utopia, “For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.”

I think we are living in a dystopian society.

And with that huge burst of word vomit that probably has no point because it echoes the mush of thoughts currently dancing in my brain, I shall leave you with a photo of my desk, where I drink a black IPA from our new Hop River keg and stamp and hammer some frustrations out on metal.

Prost.