Thread by @emverse

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Hope to see lots of you this afternoon at the corner! We can do this together! #SaveTheOA #WatchTheOA #TheOAisReal

PART V - THE OTHER ANSWER

The preventable deaths of tens of thousands of people a year to mental and physical health issues should be seen as absurd, but it's not. It's part of the background noise of how our system functions. It's mundane.

Ergo, it's not so absurd to protest a TV show's cancellation with a hunger strike. In a way, it's also mundane.

Because this is the point where our society is, a point where a TV show can be the best option readily available to someone.

I know how it looks to protest a TV cancellation with a hunger strike. I'm hoping the apparent absurdity of this will draw some attention to the real underlying absurdity. The rampant, unchecked greed that's been allowed to flourish without regard for human suffering.

The corporate bottom lines and algorithms that don't take into account the metrics of human emotion. A system that doesn't do enough to fill the cracks into which people slide and become trapped.

And the system is so vast that it seems impossible to change, a Titanic that cannot turn.

How can we change the important things when we're so powerless in the face of it all that we can't seem to change anything?

But the world doesn't have to be this way. If this seemingly insignificant thing can change, maybe the other greater ills plaguing our existence can change, too. Maybe we do have the power to change things after all.

Maybe we just need a win to show us that.

@Netflix, may I please have a pomegranate?