We live in denial because it’s easier than facing our reality — for now. — There’s a brick wall around my high school. It wasn’t there in the 90s, but school shootings weren’t as prevalent then. I wonder if anyone realizes walls keep people in and out, and they won’t protect us from a broken society because we are the cracks within the foundation, but…

All in all, is all we are and all we are is a commodity. When everything has a price, nothing has meaningful value. — “If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer.”― Confucius Corporate entertainment’s purchasing power decided music’s popularity, but in 1991 technology revolutionized the industry. Collecting and compiling accurate consumer data revealed…

The shining city on the hill isn't attractive, and all the US bombs and all the US men can't put the nation back together again. — Perhaps there was a time when the world marveled at the US, but that moment is gone if it ever existed. After the USSR collapsed and the US violently won the ideological war (the Cold War), nothing was left but to begrudgingly comply. American capitalism defeated the global working-class revolts…

Classism divides us, and we ignore it because we don't want to acknowledge society's poverty and suffering, but we still feel it. — An older woman told me she was so lonely that she'd prefer to be in jail because at least she'd have people to talk to and eat dinner with. The conversation popped into my head while chatting with friends at a restaurant, and I shrugged it off, trying to forget…

The U.S. maintained the Korean and Cold War tactics, killing and silencing dissent to control the world and narrative. — Nazi Germany attempted to extinguish WWII anti-fascists by killing and sending them to concentration camps, but the Nazis couldn't exterminate resistance because liberation struggles never die. The Nazi's defeat freed Europe from fascist reign, but WWII didn't emancipate the world from subjugation, and the war for freedom continued. …

The US occupied 138 nations and dropped 26,171 bombs in 2016 and 337,000 within twenty years, yet we don’t discuss its brutalities. — The US dropped at least 337,000 bombs on Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Libya, Pakistan, Palestine, and Syria over the past twenty years, and missile strikes maim Somalia and Yemen today. …

We pursued profit and private property, creating nothing while destroying everything. — We leave our mark everywhere we go, sticking flags on the moon, pouring concrete across the earth, scattering plastics in every crevice, and claiming ownership of land that doesn’t belong to humanity. Our species foolishly believed it could conquer its maker, and as reality hurriedly descends upon us, we’ll learn…

Americans don't understand the significance of labor movements and corporate power. — We are so conditioned to obey our masters that we query France's behavior instead of asking why the French government passes unpopular policies. …

The US poked the bear and woke a sleeping giant, coercing the Chinese government into geopolitics and another Cold War. — No one nominated a sole global hegemony or a reserve currency. The US gave itself those titles through brutal violence, suppressing potential contenders, an enormous military, economic warfare, isolating sanctions, and CIA operations. Nations tolerated the abuse because they were powerless, but the US’ unipolar reign is ending, and the…