cage

If I were trapped in a cage, how would I react? Would I sit there, preserving energy? Or would I try to escape until I was physically exerted even if that meant death?

I know what I’d like to think I’d do, but reality could be different.

Of course our society is a test of this on a large scale.

We’ve reached the point where a CEO being shot is deemed terrorism. I disagree. I do not feel terrorized by this. I find it liberating, and that is what the controlling class is threatened by.

No public/school/mass shooter has been charged with terrorism but they are the ones that terrorize me.

A random act of violence with no regard for collateral damage, aka public shootings, terrify me. A single killing that was highly targeted and carefully executed for no collateral damage? Why would I be scared? I’m not the one extracting wealth from the 99% and building up my coffers. I am not the one killing people via capitalizing what should be a human right. I am the one who has been extracted from, the one who couldn’t afford healthcare after my near-death accident which delayed my recovery, the one that struggles to think of how I will pay for my future healthcare, and who stresses about putting food on the table.

The death of the healthcare CEO has caused me to think a lot about myself. I’d like to be able to say that I don’t wish harm to anyone, but this event has made me feel conflicted. I am sad that someone died, but, I am also sad that the circumstances were that someone needed to die for any hope of change. This could have all been avoided, but our capitalism market pushes profit above all else under the guise of shareholder responsibility, and separately peaceful protests have been ignored for too long. In this way what has happened is both sad that it came to this, but entirely inevitable.

It seems more people are realizing the cage we’re in. A plastic live-trap with holes only to breath.