Isnt It So Sad To See The World Going To Shit?

Isn’t It so sad to see the world going to shit?

It’s like children arguing over an ice cream

They squabble and fight, shout and threaten

But none seem to have noticed the ice cream melting

I made a chart.

they say “it's impossible to know why the suicide rates amongst 11-17 year old is rising so steeply“

Maybe it’s something to do with the fact that governments are slashing funding for mental health services and we’ve been given 12 years to avert climate armageddon. Maybe it’s because young people are encouraged to work themselves to exhaustion in a world where their qualifications are becoming meaningless, to struggle to get a job in a gig-economy with no sick or holiday pay on minimum wage. Maybe it’s because they know they’re unlikely to ever be able to afford their own home, stuck in a cycle of exorbitant rents and student debt. Maybe it’s because this is not how we were ever supposed to live.

When revolution comes

When revolution comes, we will rise to it

The world is ending around us and money is the main concern

How much worth will your money have when everyone is dead

We have little over a decade and people still decide that they are worth more than the world

I am a teenager

I am in high school

I have dreams and ambitions and hopes

I want to go to uni and study and graduate

I want to find love and get married and maybe have kids

I want to grow old and look back and wonder how the fuck we achieved such a thing

how we fought, bled and shouted for change

and we got it

The revolution is imanate

It is coming, a whole generation can feel it in their bones

When we rise, those who made profit out of the exploitation of living beings are going to be the first to fall

The curtain of ignorance is being burned, slowly and surely

You may just regret underestimating our want to survive

Because we have been speaking and now

Well now, we are ready to scream in your ears

Nothing is more powerful than someone fed up of something

We don't need weapons

We are the weapons of mass destruction you fear

And we are preparing for launch

“The real damage is done by those millions who want to ‘survive.’ The honest men who just want to be left in peace. Those who don’t want their little lives disturbed by anything bigger than themselves. Those with no sides and no causes. Those who won’t take measure of their own strength, for fear of antagonizing their own weakness. Those who don’t like to make waves—or enemies. Those for whom freedom, honour, truth, and principles are only literature. Those who live small, mate small, die small. It’s the reductionist approach to life: if you keep it small, you’ll keep it under control. If you don’t make any noise, the bogeyman won’t find you. But it’s all an illusion, because they die too, those people who roll up their spirits into tiny little balls so as to be safe. Safe?! From what? Life is always on the edge of death; narrow streets lead to the same place as wide avenues, and a little candle burns itself out just like a flaming torch does. I choose my own way to burn.”

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Sophie Scholl

Sophie Scholl, Hans Scholl, and other members of the White Rose were arrested on this day - February 22 - 68 years ago for distributing anti-Nazi leaflets. Four days later, Sophie, Hans, and Christoph Probst were found guilty of treason and executed hours later.

Rip off that coat of indifference that you have put around your heart.                                                                           - from the fifth pamphlet of the White Rose

Sophie Scholl  9 May 1921 - 22 February 1943