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"JAFBG"  prompt: I had neighbors decorating for Christmas before Halloween this year. How do you feel about Christmas starting sooner each year?"30-Day Blogging Challenge ON HIATUS" prompt: Human Right's Day. Write anything you wish about this.Even though I wrote this "JAFBG" prompt, it actually didn't bother me at all that my neighbors decorated so early. I thought it was a little weird because it was like mid-October, but I figured they were just crushingly depressed and trying to get into the spirit of the holidays early.That being said, anything that flashes or makes noise is a violation of my human rights. As someone who gets migraines and vertigo, it should be illegal to do blinky lights in a public area.  I'm trying to think of how in-depth I want to go on human rights here. Not sure if I'm up for a rant after working so many hours today, but we'll see how it goes. I think people get confused about their rights frequently, be it Constitutional rights, human rights, or otherwise. You do have a right to free speech, and your employer also has a right to fire you for racist speech. Those are standalone rights of both parties. Another thing that happens frequently is that rights get violated all the time. That's like a daily thing. For example, one of our universal human rights is that we shall not be subjected to torture or to any kind of cruel, degrading punishments. Yet that's common, legal practice in many countries. I also know plenty of people who have been subjected to cruel and degrading punishments. It's not out of the norm in any way. I'm going to be American-centric here for a minute to go over some human rights that we 100% don't have even though they're in the universal declaration of human rights. The reason being that it's funny how we just don't have these basic human rights that were set forth in 1948. Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit. Oooooh really?? "Equally accessible to all" is an absolute joke for almost every single aspect of our country. Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay. Tell this to the people I work with who work 80 hours a week until they have a mental breakdown. Tell this to those working minimum wage jobs who literally never have a paid holiday. No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile. *looks around awkwardly* Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control. I'll stop here because this is my favorite one. This sounds so ideal, but it is so incredibly far from reality. You can do everything right and then circumstances beyond your control can knock you on your ass, bankrupt you, make you lose your home, and ruin your entire life. That is some actual bullshit. But we can't advance our society because that would be SOCIALISM/COMMUNISM. I've never seen such a large group of people who are directly against their own self-interests. Almost my entire extended family collects welfare while simultaneously being ardent conservatives and Trump supporters. I have a theory that I've been building pretty much since I had the ability to think. People probably won't like it or agree with it, but I've seen a lot of things and of this I'm sure: There is a strong connection between Christianity, conservatism, and sadomasochism. Okay, now hear me out. Let's start with this: - 85% of conservatives identify as Christian - 52% of liberals are Christian I grew up in the Catholic church and there is not a person anywhere ever who will convince me that this religion is not drenched in masochism. First of all, we have Jesus who masochistically suffered torture to save humans because they were naughty. I mean, really, that's what the entire religion is built around. This masochistic choice to suffer punishment to redeem the souls of sinners. Then, growing up in the church, I was taught that if I didn't believe what I was being told, if I didn't repent, if I didn't do what God wanted me to do, I would be endlessly tortured in the lake of fire for my insolence. I grew up watching people say, "Well, God doesn't give me anymore than I can take." "If God wants me to suffer, I'll suffer for him." "I know that I've lost everything in my life, but God giveth and God taketh away." You know what this sounds like? It sounds like a sadomasochistic relationship. When God decides you must suffer for him, you suffer for him gratefully and it's called a holy relationship. When Logan makes me suffer for him, I do so willingly and people call it an abusive relationship. Explain to me. As I've gotten older, I've seen an eerily similar pattern with conservative talking points. "Well, yes, that one person has more money than they could ever spend in a lifetime and my family and I would literally starve without government assistance, but I deserve to suffer because that billionaire is smarter/better than me." You might hear it phrased as, "Well, if he can get that rich then more power to him, I'll tell ya what!" Along the same lines, "Nothing in life is free! You gotta spin your wheels endlessly if you wanna feed your kids." "Why shouldn't people be in massive debt from student loans? No one made them get an education!" "Why should we all have healthcare? Only people who have good enough jobs to be offered health insurance deserve healthcare. Gotta pick yourself up by the bootstraps if you want healthcare." I'm probably not smart enough to articulate what I'm trying to say. But I've grown up in these relationships. They've molded who I am, and I swear, there's a correlation. I'm not even saying that it's a bad thing. If you enjoy being masochistic and it makes you feel good, there's nothing wrong with that. The problem is with the word deserving. Catholicism taught me that I deserve anything bad that happens to me. It's my cross to bear, as they say. And anything I work hard to achieve isn't actually my accomplishment because it was gifted to me by God. We become complacent to human rights violations in this way. We see a situation like, Wow, this person works 2 jobs to try to support their family. They don't have access to healthcare. They're barely making ends meet. They're one paycheck away from being homeless. And instead of responding to this with, "This isn't right. Humans should not have to work two jobs just to be one paycheck away from homeless. Humans should not have to spin their wheels without access to healthcare for themselves and their families." We hear: "Well, God tests us all, but he doesn't give us more than we can take so be blessed with what God has graced upon you." OR "Well, if you wanted to be able to survive you shouldn't have started a family. If you get sick, that's not MY fault. Why should we have to foot the bill for your issues?" This is a fucking problem. We work hard and we deserve to have social safety nets. We don't deserve to bear the weight of illness without access to healthcare that won't put us into massive debt and bankrupt us. We are an allegedly civilized, advanced society. We deserve access to reasonably-priced education for the betterment of ourselves and our society. We don't deserve to be under the thumbs of mega-corporations so that we can make a few people obscenely rich off our backs while we debate whether to pay our student loan bill or our rent this month. This idea that we must chronically suffer with a grateful smile is toxic to humanity and it is the antithesis of human rights. In Catholic school, as vicious as Roman rule, I got my knuckles bruised by a lady in black. And I held my tongue as she told me, "Son, fear is the heart of love," so I never went back. ~DCFC |
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