Thread by @BenjaminPDixon

Feel free to ignore this thread. I'm tipsy and my bday is almost over:

I think it happened when my father died. Something ruptured in me that forced me to reject the arrogance of my youth and I no longer saw myself as special in isolation but special because I was human.

What I reject about our society is that we elevate some at the expense of others when we are all great. Literally, every single one of us is great.

But you can't stand out in a society built on greed if we treat each other as if we were all the same: great.

I get enraged is when I consider how many human lives of wasted by our society -- killed for profit, left sick and dying for profit, left oppressed for profit.

Like, how dare we waste human potential for a motherfucking dollar. For Money?? You'll let greatness waste away?

You took a human life -- with all of its greatness -- with all of its potentials -- you killed that person - you allowed that person to die for quarterly profit margins. I think in those moments I understand murderous rage. Who the hell do they they are wasting these lives?

you dropped bombs on people for profits... you destroyed the infinitely amazing and unexplainable consciousness of a human being for a fucking dollar.

And then you felt nothing. You didn't feel for their family or their loss of consciousness.. nothing.

That's the path to the darkest side of me.

But, my hope is in the fact that if we just spread the word -- that every single person gifted with sentience is literally as great as the greatest in our stratified society.

(if you think this is wild, wait til I tweet high).

But anyway, I dated a woman years before I met my wife and she told me (it was the first time that I ever heard it) that my defining feature was love.

I didn't understand it then. But I understand it now.

You are loved. Even if by no one else but me.

And that love isn't weak. That love is radical.

FUCK anyone who would harm you. Fuck ANYONE who would manipulate you. Fuck anyone who would gaslight you and take advantage of you.

Because you are human. And you are great. And I see you.

Cheers.

Take the time to consider someone else. Consider their life, their greatness. However special you feel you are, consider the person that you think the least of and receive the epiphany that they are just as great as you.

Treat the least person in your life as great as yourself.