the denaturing effect of american society.

list all the reasons you are free: it's a conditioning that we have all been forced into, the abstract notion of freedom, concepts of freedom. the president of the united states is so paranoid of freedom that you can't go and touch a reflecting pool in the nation's capital. is he going to shut down every fountain and pool in the city next? that point is moot. on the heels of the celebration of 250+ years of legalized oppression, i'm wondering about when we will all finally wake up to the fact that we still live in a deeply constructed slave state. nationalism has conditioned many of us to reduce ourselves to a point that we have no identity beyond wage worker in a capitalist imperialist society. rugged individualism keeps us in perpetual bubbles of delusion that get marketed back to us through grind and hustle culture, and self-care marketed back through wellness influencer rhetoric. there is nothing good and free about the system that we currently live in. you can't have free will in…