{"id":7736,"date":"2025-02-03T00:09:39","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T07:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/?p=7736"},"modified":"2025-02-02T23:12:18","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T06:12:18","slug":"no-its-not-just-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/2025\/02\/03\/no-its-not-just-you\/","title":{"rendered":"No, It’s Not Just You"},"content":{"rendered":"

Life at the end of Empire is genuinely crazymaking for all of us. <\/p>\n

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There are paths around that mad fact. You might not like the ways, but they do exist. <\/p>\n

First you have to know and feel, that the land you say you own, or exclusively rent, is stolen land, and that a lot of people died so that you could be that owner. They were killed, for the land you and I now say we own. <\/p>\n

They were murdered, for your comfort and privacy. <\/p>\n

The same is true of any property. All property is Theft, as Proudhon said. <\/p>\n

And that’s especially true of any money you or I say we own. <\/p>\n

But … but … I worked hard for it!<\/em><\/p>\n

No doubt that’s true. You may have even murdered parts of yourself, for the privilege of having the things, in addition to working to … earn them. <\/p>\n

Either way, the truth of your hard work doesn’t change those other less pleasant truths. <\/p>\n

Knowing and feeling all of them is the first step on the road to less crazy. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Life at the end of Empire is genuinely crazymaking for all of us. There are paths around that mad fact. You might not like the ways, but they do exist. First you have to know and feel, that the land you say you own, or exclusively rent, is stolen land, and that a lot of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7736"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7740,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7736\/revisions\/7740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}