"you have impressive qualifications, but to be honest you have the wrong color, and you're a female, so expect problems."
[Aneka Nicole
12 hrs ·
"Years ago, when I just graduated from University (undergrad), I worked in the POS city corporation's office as a relief draughtsman, in the city engineer's office.
(well i didn't draw shit, but that is besides the point) One morning while reading books on construction contract law, that i brought with me to pass time in the office, the chief valuator observed my book, came over and asked about my qualifications. needless to say we ended up having very long conversations on a daily basis. I guess he felt he wanted to enlighten me.
one of the things i remember him saying was "you have impressive qualifications, but to be honest you have the wrong color, and you're a female, so expect problems." well...heh.
One of the more interesting conversations I had with him related to property ownership in the CBD of port of spain, and by extension expansion into suburbs of newtown and woodbrook. it was eye opening, and revealed to me the status quo of this country, why it is the way it is, and why it would possibly never ever change.
now i see a whole lot of debates on fb, opinions of all kinds, and guess what? the narrative has not changed one bit. it flows through every single thing. it feels kinda like that scene in the matrix when the morpheus and neo have the red pill, blue pill discussion.
for a oligarchy to exist, there must be a permanent underclass to feed it. give some the illusion of upward mobility and you keep the masses just where you want them."
which spurred me to respond thusly:
{ the cost to country and in personal lives due to this is mindblown, and pisses me off not that it happens but so many of us sit back and watch this shit happen and say and do nothing, often refusing to help when we could}
because i see the hypocrisy of people/ i see people who could help and choose not to. who could stand in and say this is not right, or better yet, when you have the power to change, stop and hire someone so they are not bastardized despite their investments and attempts to being functional in a society
and right after this post, is this...this is what i am talking about.
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[Justin Phelps
16 hrs · San Juan, Trinidad and Tobago ·
"About 15 years ago I lost many friends because I thought, and said, that an anti-crime initiative formed after a murder in Westmoorings was selfish,hypocritical and prejudiced, because the people forming it had been silent about murders occurring everywhere else in the country. I probably lost a client or two as well. I was right then, and I'm right now. God forbid they kill a 9 year old in Westmoorings tonight. I happened to read this this morning: "It is the good fortune of many to live distant from the scene of sorrow; the evil is not sufficiently brought to their doors to make them feel...." Trinidadians need to start taking everything that affects other Trinidadians personally. Then we will see change. Or just wait until it reaches your door, which it will, rightly."]
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third interesting status in a matter of minutes. all sequentially flowing in my stream
["...so the apocalypse is somewhat bearable. And at least I get to eat chocolate in the process."
Jill Lian Goddard
2 hrs ·
"What made us civilized humans so dumb in the particular flavor of today? What made us swallow, with such enthusiasm, any bull that corporations and politicians and religious leaders hand us? 'Open your mouth' they say. And obediently, without so much as a blink, we chew and gulp plastic, packaged health products, trends, celebrities, branding and a set of stuff which, while it may be fun and the way we adults play, can't really be taken seriously can it? I watch myself incredulously while I purchase byproducts of industries, especially the petroleum industry which will sell us ANYTHING to not have waste that is uncommercialized. I see people, whom I know and love, producing and peddling this snake oil and making sure that the industries run efficiently in their destruction.
How do I step off? Are the zero waste, produce/consume local, chemical free food production systems in which I participate enough? Are the groups that I form, organizations which I lead, visions that I develop, projects that I undertake enough to balance the destructive Great Wall of Civilization that others nonchalantly construct as they go about their day?
I think not. I am resigned to the collapse not because I'm a doomsayer but because I have a small amount of intelligence and logic still at my disposal. But massive crashes are better than crashes that resonate to infinity. (And do I need to include a kitten/dolphin/baby picture so that FB's algorithm allows this post to be seen and some of you bother to read it?)
Off to an exciting day building resilience for all my lovely fellow Caribbean human and non-human beings so the apocalypse is somewhat bearable. And at least I get to eat chocolate in the process."
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it is Jillian's last line and few words that give me context to the two previous posts.
I read: the apocalypse is here. one of its indicators are those like me, who spent blood sweat tears and youth to become and make something out of a raw self, only for it to be despised, resented, spit on, maligned and sidelined. almost a life destroyed if you let it, if you dont confer something else, even if that is doing nothing but navel gazing, dreaming, conjuring, liming, interacting, engaging..no productivity that earns you a living or income. no home of your own, no studio to make your creations and innovations... but you do what you can and must to make it bearable"
How does one stream provide this much perfection in sequence?
And we not done yet. Aneka still writing
The Truth of my life in Trinidad. The statement of the malaise by the privileged. And it is funny to me, cause i read the commentary and the posts and I wonder if people are aware enough to integrate and include aspects that are so easily overlooked. Like would Justin realize part of his post concerns the professionally skilled yet unemployed, or is it as I have experienced, folk only know and notice about that after it happens to them, never seeing it before. and like i said, I pass through many who could have done or said or offered something and chose not to, silence instead.
Very interesting
And then the statement of the truth of my coping.
i love moments of integration
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