It's amazing what can change in that time... πΎπ₯
... and how much can stay the same. π’
𧡠A [long] thread.
... ten years with my wonderful wife, part of a real team
... three little people (one of whom made us pancakes!!) ...
... my ten-year-younger self couldn't contemplate the mixture of warmth and terror that comes with being a parent (& husband).
I think/hope @dbsdigital has made a real difference, helping to get π©π° π³π± πΈπͺ (& a little π¬π§) money directly to folk in the global south who can bring about real #SRHR change.
It's taught me how vital *transparency & accountability* is.
Becoming ur own client after 20 years is scary as hell.
I only hope, 10 years from now, we will look back & know that we've helped make the world better: for everyone.
The sad truth is that I'm a white male privilege archetype.
That's not a choice I made, I can't undo my upbringing...
The truth is my inaction makes me an active part of the problem.
.. and honestly I'm not yet sure the best way to be part of the solution.
What I do know is that we've got it *all* wrong.
- How *and why* we educate
- How *and why* we work
- How *and why* we interact online
- How *and why* we live...
... if you really look at how it all works ...
... we have got it *all* wrong.
The job of a politician, really, is "to make the world a better place - for everyone."
** That's the point. **
That's why *we give* them power over us.
Where the fuck have we gone so, so, SO, wrong!?
Why have we let them set their own goals!?
The job of healthcare is to make society healthier - for everyone.
Then why is *all healthcare* really about selling the cure?
None of it (really) is about preventing the root causes.
Illness makes money. Sugar, alcohol even social media!
(1/2)..
If healthcare was really *for* society it would be about root-cause prevention & reduction.
Be honest.
It's not that.
The job of education is to help children find themselves.
Education is to inspire, to build strength of character, to build the confidence and skill to go into the world and live a full life.
Oh wow!! That is *not* what our education system does.
My point is - we are all apathetic about something and most of us are apathetic about *a lot*.
Economics distracts us from the truth about the world around us.
Some privileged few are "free range, organic"
Most are intensively battery farmed.
We are all being milked, twice daily, for the benefit of the farmers; .. the Trumps & BoJos, the Epsteins and the Cummings of this world.
This fight is vital - in the very truest sense of the word.
What I know is: ** we cannot continue like this **
... but while we *must* do that we *also* need to be honest with ourselves...
... that this is treating the symptom not the cause.
How *any why* we govern ourselves.
We need to fundamentally re-think what politicians are for.
They must not be to better the interests of industry (which is the reality today).
They are *OUR* public-servants - for equality and a better future.
How *and why* we educate.
School must be about building strong, self-confident people. School saps the strength, creativity and confidence of generation after generation for what? WHY? Who does that serve!?
Education must work *for the child*.
... only then will any reform make now have any real teeth.
Anything else will be yet another sham to placate the disenfranchised and distract us back into our cages.
I'm sorry if it's become an outpouring of frustration.
... all in the name of keeping power and control.
This is not a world I wish to live in or leave behind.
It must change.
</rant out>