MJD

i want ads to feel pain when i skip them btw

doing my damnedest to free myself of the “just gotta get through this week” “only x more days til the weekend” mindset & learn to appreciate each day for whatever it is lest i be driven to madness

so what if tomorrows monday i have leftovers & maybe this week i will make soup. maybe ill see a cat. maybe each day will show me something worthwhile even if im tired & maybe i can enjoy it

if u are negative on this post im blocking u ! some of us are trying to get better

pissed off that i dint get a package because i dint order anything because i cant afford anything 😡

oh to be Spatula bunking down for a snowy night

i knew this conceptually, but like you dont really KNOW that public school is designed to set you up to be a good worker bee until you're cracking out a report, after hours, at 7 pm on a monday night and it hits you; oh, i'm doing homework, this is why they made me do homework, and suddenly i'm feeling it in my chest. i cant believe i was raised by the state to be an automaton, and worse, i am one of the lucky robots who isn't doing manual labor.

ya know what fucking reblog this, we SHOULD be mad

I took an entire course in college where we studied the ways the public school system in the U.S. is geared towards institutionalizing the country's population from a young age. It's not just about setting you up to be a good worker bee. The little windows on classroom doors? Gets you used to the idea of always being under supervision. But they also prepare a lot of students, especially those relegated to remedial classes, for the way prison life works and what to expect when they get there. Multiple choice tests, standardized tests, end-of-chapter tests that just ask you to regurgitate everything that was italicized in the text? They train you to repeat the ideas given to you and mechanize your thinking, and prevent you developing critical thinking skills. I could write more about this when I get my old college texts from this class (they're in storage and I can't access them during covid), but basically the U.S. public school system is geared towards churning out both middle class worker drones AND working class prison inmates. There is a direct relationship between the public school system and the prison industrial complex.

system of a clown. you ever think of that