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Riff McClavin's avatar

Tough time coming up with a reaction to this piece. Every word rings true but a meaningful response eludes me. Maybe the bleakness l'm feeling sums it up well. A red, white, and blue bleakness. Glad you're voice is here, Caitlin. It's needed.

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Caitlin, as always, you hit it out of the park. Agreed that awakening to reality is what's needed but I think if the awakening were sufficient, it would result not in uprisings -- at least not initially --- but rather different personal choices. Children are indoctrinated from birth and automatically move into money and baby-making mode before they have time to experience that life as it's set up doesn't work. By then, they're trapped with every day responsibilities that they can't even manage let along rising up against anything. I've given up any hope that the system can ever be changed. It's difficult, snail's pace work to heal and change myself (believe me, I've been working non-stop on this for the past 40 years) let alone effect change in anything or anyone outside of me. That's the truth I most needed to awaken to and what's left is to discover where to from there. I'm always perplexed -- you are so clear eyed, realistic and insightful. But do you really believe there will ever be change of global systems when individuals can't even change the simplest elements in their own lives? That's a real, not rhetorical question. Thank you as always for your thought-provoking writing.

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