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A few months ago I saw a post on Instagram about disability in the USSR. I must have thought about it before. As a child, I hardly ever saw anyone with a wheelchair. Only years later I realised why that was the case. Always learn and unlearn. Often there were no lifts in many buildings, people who use wheelchairs would have been stuck, like in jail. Anything and anyone who stood out and was different to what was considered normal, would have been hidden, isolated and marginalised. I am sure this is still going on in various places.
Think for yourself, don’t romanticise communist and other authoritarian regimes that have an agenda. The world has always been like this, with the narrative along the lines: bad versus evil, us vs. them, etc. It’s much simpler to me: you either harm other innocent people or you don’t. If you do unknowingly, you learn and you stop. But otherwise, there’s no excuse. I can’t solve these things, but I can try and find my place in all this.
I lived in a satellite state until we broke away from that. It took decades to see some progress. Currently, with the ongoing war, and how it’s being perceived, it will be decades again for things to shift.
This is only one example of the evil that comes from regimes like our so called “friendly big brother”. I lived through some of this thinking that it was changing for the better. Now seeing what’s happening in Ukraine, I sometimes have no words to describe how it feels. Again, think for yourself and don’t believe propaganda.
It wasn’t just USSR, it was spreading like cancer to other countries. My country somehow broke away, the root of the evil remained, where it’s always been. There’s no excuse and no justification to invade and kill anyone. As I said, it will take decades, if at all, for a change to happen there, but I doubt it will end there. There will be other wars, other greedy and power-seeking monsters, who will not stop manipulating, lying and killing the innocent. This has been going on for thousands of years, it won’t change in the near future - and I deliberately don’t speculate about thousands of years of humanity - I have my doubts about our race to survive (I’d like to be wrong, but I don’t think it matters anyway).
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I got a few very interesting reactions from a few people on my previous message. It seems it resonates with some, but I also think that it scared some people away. It’s understandable - some subjects are hard to talk or even think about.
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Like most people, you probably know the month in which you were born. Big celebrations, year after year. But have you ever stopped for a moment and thought about a month in which it will all end for you? It’s guaranteed that it will. Maybe not this year. Would you consider it to be luck if it was the same month? A coincidence? What are the chances? Can you imagine how it would feel if it was on your birthday? Are you counting down? Is it more than 100 days? Or is coming up soon? Who doesn’t like celebrations?
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It is hard not to see that at this point, after all the disasters I have been through (either caused by me or someone else), the most important thing is to be authentic and honest: true to oneself. Not everyone has been. I do not expect to change the world - everything is moving slowly to its final destination, whether we like it or not. The temporality of everything and everyone on this planet is obvious. There’s no escape from the inevitable. You can’t run away from it. But as always, you will have to make choices. Some of them will be easy to make, some of them will not be. Your choices will often shape who you are, or (if it’s important to you), how others will see you.