The lack of affordable housing, a refusal to pay workers a living wage, the push to dismantle and privatize successful government programs like the Postal Service, Social Security, and Medicare. What does it all mean?
These are all ‘signs of the times, ‘ a portent of the End Times…of capitalism.
Capitalism, an economic system dependent on the exploitation of workers and the environment, is doomed to failure. It’s only lasted as long as it has because those who benefit most, a mere 1% of the population, wield an ungodly amount of power.
They pit the rest of us against each other, ban books, restrict our bodily autonomy, and buy the loyalty of judges, justices, and politicians. They monopolize mainstream media and frame every discussion of problems to disguise the truth-that capitalism creates inequality as a primary function, not a glitch in the system.
In these essays, author Johnny Townsend (Recommended Daily Humanity) helps us adapt to the new reality that awaits as late-stage capitalism collapses around us.
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Repent! The End of Capitalism is Nigh!
Reparations, One Family at a Time
Problem Deniers vs. Problem Solvers
Oppression Never Gives Up on Its Own
Is Lying a Political Issue or a Moral One?
Misery Loves Company Because Companies Love to Create Misery
Humans Caused This Disaster!
Gay Romance Novels and the Reality of Unaffordable Housing
Let’s Make a Paradigm Shift Toward Socialism
A Moment of Noise Is Better Than a Moment of Silence
Personal Responsibility for Conflating Love with Cruelty
Socialism as Harm Reduction
It’s Time to Ration Fossil Fuels
Make Hoarding Wealth Illegal
Moral Superiority Doesn’t Pay the Bills, Money Does, So Tax the Rich
Capricious Allies Aren’t Allies
Act as if Acting Matters
Climate Change Is a Pyroclastic Flow Rushing Toward Us
Proxy Cruelty Is Still Cruel
Elderly Are Disproportionately Impacted by Climate Change and Should Sue Those Responsible
Do Not Go Gently into That Gas Chamber
Right-Wing Christians Worship a Snowflake God
Let’s Preserve LGBTQ Culture
A General Strike Against Fossil Fuels
The Great Replacement Theory Infiltrates the LGBTQ Community
Austerity Is Not Responsible Governance
Rationing Water in the Midst of Record Rainfall
Work with the Volunteer You Have, Not the Volunteer You Wish You Had
Over de auteur
A climate crisis immigrant who relocated from New Orleans to Seattle in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Johnny Townsend wrote the first account of the Up Stairs Lounge fire, an attack on a French Quarter gay bar which killed 32 people in 1973. He was an associate producer for the documentary Upstairs Inferno, for the sci-fi film Time Helmet, and for the deaf gay short Flirting, with Possibilities. His books include Please Evacuate, Racism by Proxy, and Wake Up and Smell the Missionaries. His novel, Orgy at the STD Clinic, set entirely on public transit, details political extremism, climate upheaval, and anti-maskers in the midst of a pandemic.
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