Lost in Transition

Any future where humans aren’t replaced by sentient machines is insufficient

College Sheldon was an embarrassment

I haven’t felt depressed in weeks and this is unreal, this sense of comfort with myself. It’s weird that I can simultaneously feel so critical of myself--all the traits I lack, all the toxin I’ve had bred into me--and still feel like I’m exactly who I want to be. It’s a shame to have lost people, to know there are people who used to like having me around, who think of me now as nothing more than a caricature (and it’s fair! I knew so many good people, had the company of so many people I never deserved!) but also like, those people are out there, doing their thing, growing and blossoming, and I’m good with that. I wake up at sunrise every day and write my stories, I bike to work, I bike home, I make my meals and read. I see so few people now, have so much less of a need for it. Sometimes I spend time with a person I care deeply about,  and she puts me in my place, keeps me here. I have so little to offer and yet here I am, every day, hands outstretched, trying. I could do this forever. Will probably do this forever. Until the whole thing collapses.

History had made it clear that we will get what we deserve. 

The history of the term redneck is long and complex. One of the earliest recorded uses of the term comes from the 1890s, and refers to rednecks as “poorer inhabitants of the rural districts…men who work in the field, as a matter of course, generally have their skin burned red by the sun, and especially is this true of the back of their necks”. In 1921, the term became synonymous with armed insurrection against capitalists and the state, as members of the United Mine Workers of America tied red bandanas around their necks during the Battle of Blair Mountain, a two week long armed labor uprising in the coalfields of West Virginia. Today, the term redneck has taken on a demeaning connotation, primarily among upper class urban liberals who have gone out of their way to dehumanize white working class and poor people. Terms like “white trash” have come to signify the view among these same upper class liberals of poor and rural whites. To us, the term redneck is a term that signifies a pride in our class as well as a pride in resistance to bosses, politicians, and all those that protect domination and tyranny.