I should think one of the three would do it, and I choose to snipe. I can, at times, have that kind of focus, it's like a zen dedication to the target and the line between me and it. However, regarding some of your other assertions and the tone in which they were delivered, I find them interesting. In fact, I was saying just that, a while back. Questions of civil discourse aside, it's like we are all down in the woods, Robin Hood style, on the fringe of society by way of our common history of incarceration in Straight, so we're this clan, see, down in the woods (which, like in Robin Hood, serves to equalize at least the power differential between the King's men and the Outlaws, although in this set-up I don't know what the woods serve or represent) and we are talking to each other about what we know, which is that our eyes are OPEN to something in Society. And there is the age old argument about how to handle one's status as disenfranchised...
What did we learn in Straight? "It's hopeless, we've got you."
Are we quite certain that it is hopeless? After all, in my community there is a Restorative Justice thing going on, wherein all parties in a court action sit around with an advisory board and discuss the crime and the reasons for it, for example one woman was flat fucking broke and shoplifted to feed her kids so they had her put on a bake sale to make reparations, and she had to bake the cakes and stuff. Obviously, that case was an embarassment because by punishing the woman alone they failed to see the whole picture, as in, why is this woman so poor with all these kids, and the fact that the way society works disenfranchises some people on a spiral into poverty, therefore shouldn't someone else be punished here too? Who owes reparation to whom in this situation?
But anyway, it is cool that people are putting the energy into things like this, community-level justice, even if they are still blind to the power structure. I was thinking how I should go introduce myself to my neighbors. It used to be that you were quite certain to know and be friendly with your neighbors because you knew you all depended on each other at least in emergencies. I'm thinking old frontier days here. But now, we have become divided from and anonymous to the people upon whom we are dependent for survival, you know, farmers and seamstresses, or corporate farming and sweatshop labor, whatever, and all that. I could go on on that topic...
So sure, I see people as disempowered, but also as slaves who could be free if they tried. ? History will tell the story unless we obliterate ourselves. In the meantime, keep trading bean seeds, planting all kinda ugly tomatoes, and fight for your right to your day in court.
