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Welcome to my blog- this is where I record my thoughts, dreams, plans, and goings-on, whenever or if-ever I want to. I wanted to create an internet home-base to return to, much in the style of tumblr-blogging back in the day but more self-contained. I found the busyness and noise of social media too overwhelming, and got tired of constantly being sold or sold to. So I created this personal writing oasis to house whatever I want to share of myself. I’ve always been inclined to write and wanted to maintain an outlet for that practice without confining it to Instagram captions or hiding it exclusively away in journals. Welcome! Read along as I get this place started, or don’t. Either way, I’m happy you stopped by.
Hello! I’m a 28-year old woman living in Seattle, Washington. Here, I’ll be writing about topics ranging from current events, social issues, reflections on therapy and my own life, politics (I do have a degree in international relations, after all), maybe book reviews as I work through my very long TBR, to updates on my hobbies, the new music I’m listening to, and updates to my personal style- among other things.
Thanks for being here!
About Me
My most recent post:
The ultra-wealthy are addicts.
We’ve seen a parade alarming of headlines in recent years and months: Elon Musk is set to become the world’s first trillionaire. Wealth inequality in the United States has exceeded the gap seen prior to the French Revolution. The rapid expansion of the artificial intelligence sector is generating massive amounts of money for the few as jobs for the many get eliminated.
This unyielding forward slog of wealth accumulation seems to be dooming us all. AI data centers waste massive amounts of drinkable water to put out just a few seconds of subpar video, carcinogenic microplastics have been found in almost every part of the human body, and global warming at its current clip is set to cause significant portions of the globe to become uninhabitable.
However, it would seem that the ultra-wealthy are not reveling in their success, nor are they concerned for the gloom of our shared futures: instead, the behavior of those in power has seemingly been getting worse and worse over time: the gradual uncovering of the Epstein files have revealed international sex trafficking schemes that seem to have touched the figureheads of nearly every major industry, and the long-rumored “human safari” pay-to-kill schemes in Sarajevo during the 1990s Bosnian genocide have received new attention as evidence has been uncovered.
To the average person, to continue on a luxurious slide toward planetary death sounds unfathomable and irrational. And why would you turn to harming others on purpose when you have the means to do anything else? What’s the pathology of wanting more and more, regardless of the harm and the risk? There’s not one, singular answer, but I do have an idea for one of them. Extreme wealth accumulation is an addiction. We are living in a global social and political system ruled and managed by addicts*.
