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<b/r><center><big>The truth will [[set us free]]</big></center><b/r>
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<b/r><center>(colour: #2f3f27)[It begins with the stories
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and the lies
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the [[trained voices in our heads]] tell us.]</center><b/r><b/r><b/r><b/r><b/r><b/r>
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<b/r><b/r><b/r><b/r><b/r><b/r><center>(colour: #d7e3b1)[How can we have genuine interaction when we can't be honest to ourselves?</center>
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Are we in [[a crisis of vulnerability]]?
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[Antagonization, war games, bluffing, the ball in your court or theirs, behaving under the guise of some reason that we are less ashamed to justify than [[the true reason underlying our actions...]]]</center><b/r><b/r><b/r><b/r>
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<b/r><b/r><b/r><b/r><center>(text-style: "bold")+(font: "Arial")+(colour: #ede4bb)[The global injustice pandemic and universal health pandemic has brought us and must continue to bring us heightened awareness of, concern about, and [[dismantling]] of environmental, structural, culturally and socially learned behaviors and ways of life. These two world-shaking phenomena will hopefully send us towards a reality in which we stop deeming people as [[good or bad]] and we recognize that we are all the products of our contexts, upbringings, and the internalized messages we received, especially during childhood and adolescence.]</center><b/r>
<b/r><center><tw-smear>(colour: #3d0b66)[If we can take the time and space to sort out our values, if we can listen to the people that can help us identify our justification of those values, we would hopefully bring our society towards a state in which it nurtures and provides for all people through [[a system]] in which we hold each other accountable.]</center><b/r>
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<b/r><center>(colour: #cb4b16)[We cannot only teach the sunny vision for the future, but we must also teach [[the tangled web|dismantling]] that we spun among ourselves over generations and centuries.]</center><b/r><center><tw-condense>What we can learn from the call to be anti-racist is that it takes active correcting to rewire <tw-expand>[[our society’s motherboard|a system]].</center>
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<b/r><center><tw-smear>(colour: #d7e3b1)[If everyone had the time, the space, the luxury, the respect, and the support that affords one the privilege of understanding themself, then we as a society could grow to be less reactionary, vengeful, destructive, spiteful, power-hungry, concerned with image and [[status…|good or bad]]]</center><b/r>
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<b/r>(font: "Helvetica")+(colour: #ffe25e)[Our taxonomies, our scientificization of our world has led us down the path of condemnation. This person is a university professor so they are well to do and deserving of respect, but that person is on welfare and therefore something about them is perceived as wrong or lacking.]
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(font: "Helvetica")+(colour: #fee21e)[We’ve set up hierarchies and caste systems that lead us to condemn each other by way of differing moral and value judgements. All of the intricate significations we’ve construed up to this point have shrouded over the truth of what it is to experience being alive, so much so that this misery is [[now]] the actual experience of being alive for many people.]
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(font:"Monaco")+(colour: #ddf542)[The quarantine halted the big machine more than anything short of an atomic bomb could have. The confrontation of mortality for those who had not had to confront it before sparked introspection and examination about [[what truly matters]] to each of us. It also hopefully gave rise to empathy for those of us who were already [[familiar with the precarity]] of their lives.]</center>
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<b/r><center><tw-expand>(colour: #4879a3)[And [[the patterns|in the air]] revealed themselves, as they always have, but this time more people were paying attention. Death and suffering are allocated disproportionately to communities of color, working and middle class communities, the disabled, LGBTQ+ people, elders and veterans, and other marginalized and disenfranchised sects of society. And the grim reaper exists among us in the form of the capitalist state, the selfishly designed institutions that structure our lives. The social contract we agree to upon our births is written with the intention of benefitting one side only, the writers’ side, and furthermore, exploiting the rest in the process.]</center>