I’ve been thinking about power in systems. In medicine. In police forces. Government. Why there haven’t been mass defections. Why do we stay when the system harms? 1/
The System is made of people. We comprise It. Without us, it ceases to be. Strikes me as a kind of delusion that we don’t denounce and leave even when The System blatantly exploits and harms. 2/
The harm, the moral distress, it touches everyone. We see it daily. And I wonder if we don’t abandon these systems because we ourselves on the deepest level seek to gain power from within. We’ve been conditioned to believe that is the goal. 3/
To share power, to truly heal the wounds, to acknowledge the corruption, it might not be enough to stay and believe you can effect change from within. We may have to leave. To denounce and depart. 4/
Burn it down. Deprive the Systems of their energy source, and start over, together. fin. #MedTwitter #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd #BLM #PoliceViolence
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