There’s Nothing Wrong with You

There’s nothing actually wrong with you. You’ve just internalized capitalism’s programming so much that you feel a constant drive to be an industrious worker.

You’ve accepted, as fact, a disease made up by privileged, white men in the latter half of the 20th century. 

You’ve bought into a form of psychology written and directed by capitalists who think you don’t work hard enough.

You just live in an overstimulating world without enough time to rest.

A world where people with different brains are labeled as “disordered” because our society doesn’t accept much neurodivergence.

Where people who naturally display a wide range of emotions are told to stop it instead of given space to be themselves.

Where people who are sensitive to unnatural lights and sounds are told to deal with it.

We live in an unnatural world where the labor class is taught from a young age to be compliant workers.

We’re taught that we’re letting people down if we have too much fun or relax for too long.

The sad part is

The parts of us that make us divergent are the most creative, life-giving parts of us. 

But they’re also the parts that make us unpredictable, which the ruling class doesn’t want. 

So they provide us with easy hits of dopamine to help us cope with the rigid rules they enforce.

They keep us too tired to realize how much shit sucks and too brainwashed to point the finger at anyone but ourselves. 

They have us internalize their idea that we’re not good enough so much that we subconsciously berate ourselves every day for not having the ordered mind of a capitalist cog.

But no matter how much you repress these parts, they’ll always be there, waiting to be acknowledged. 

When you start to acknowledge, in your bones, that there’s nothing wrong with you and actually there’s something very wrong with society, you can start to let out the parts of you that don’t neatly fit into capitalism. You can start to build a world where people can just be people. 

And as we do that, we can find out who we really are and what we’re capable of.