#disposability — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #disposability, aggregated by home.social.
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CW: re: US pol, some thoughts on why people aren't rising up, thread
(4/?) After I departed the #toxic #leftist #activist group, I floated around to other groups and saw, perhaps less outright toxicity and infighting, but similar cycles of groups using people up, burning people out, and then replacing them with new people.
This is not only an unsustainable organizing model, but it's cruel. It is mirroring the #disposability mindset of #capitalism in which people have no inherent worth but are instead only valuable in what they can produce. It is not a model that values #care, #compassion, or #community. And yet I see it over and over and over again in so many groups that claim to be on the #left or #progressive.
If you want to know why people are tired, it's because we're past the point of #BurnOut. I wasn't burned out when I stopped doing #activism--I was #traumatized. I had burned out and kept going until I physically could not and I'm still recovering.
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Witnessing the sheer #disposability of camping gear at Glastonbury Festival (etc?)
How about a #deposit scheme at the gate, where you pay an extra £100 which you only get back if you don't leave anything you checked in with? Sort of thing...