Intro!
I guess I should start by introducing myself... so, hi! i'm carmen, i use they & she pronouns, i just turned 28, and i have a lot of thoughts
I am a human!! Just like you, probably! I am constantly thinking and thinking and thinking and sometimes I just really need to get those thoughts out of my head and into art. I’m ready to start putting that art into the world in one centralized place, which is here. It might be other places too, but only time will tell. Either way, I’m glad you’re here, now, with me.
Everything I write on this blog is my perspective on the world around me as I experience it. My writing reflects how the bounty of information I indulge in daily, mixed with my individual experiences, inform my responses to global cultural topics. I am always seeking new information and feel excited every time that I get to grow my worldview.
Sometimes, I can’t tell if I write too simply or too complex. The doubts of capitalism keep creeping in. The trauma of being raised in a 21st century American nuclear family keeps me feeling inferior. But inferior to who?
As I look at the world around me, at the people who are “leading” in this world, at small and large scales, I realize they are also just people. Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Keir Starmer, Emmanuel Macron, and Joe Rogan, are no more qualified than I am to affect the lives of billions of people globally, they just happen to have enough access to money and power that they are enabled to do as they please. So, I want to start enabling myself to change the world in my own ways. Hopefully, for the better. For the bolder. For the brattier.
Capitalism is falling apart at the seams. We the people, the cogs in the machine, are refusing to play along with these weird oppressive schemes anymore. Watching millions of people die from COVID over the past four years, and watching the zionist siege on Gaza, Palestine, over the last 9 months have both contributed to my personal radicalization towards socialism, communism, and anarchy.
I have seen my world fall apart over and over again, I have grown up through unprecedented event after unprecedented event. Growing up under the threat of climate change yet seeing those in power doing nothing over my almost 3 decades of life to stop fossil fuel usage. Voting for politicians who make empty promises to protect us only to profit from the exploitation of their constituents. Watching institutions promise to address their racism, ableism, classism, et cetera while just finding new ways to implement even worse policies.
I just turned 28 years old, and have lived through 7 USA presidential elections and 2024 will be the third one I vote in. 2 elections in my lifetime have gone to fascists who didn’t win the popular vote. The American judicial and electoral systems were exposed to me as false from the time I was 4 years old. This keeps being re-affirmed watching the unmasked fascism of the supreme court in the 2020s and the utter incompetence of this country’s executive and legislative branches to hold them accountable.
I am tired of pretending that we have to play within the rules of the broken system when imagining a better future. I am ready to dream bigger than the limits of capitalism, imperialism, and individuality. I recognize myself as part of the collective consciousness and this blog will be one part of my contributions towards building our global collective future.
For our future, I dream of:
free housing, food, water, medicine, internet, and other necessities provided for everyone, everywhere
that everyone has access to their ancestral homelands and has freedom of return
complete carbon neutrality, everything is sustainable for everyone.
safe, accessible, public transportation everywhere
free education for everyone, everywhere
that wealth cannot be hoarded and exploitation is held accountable
for people to live simple, happy, fulfilling lives
for humanity to heal from the clusterfuck of history so far, so that we can blossom to our full potential
Anyway, I’ve touched on a lot in this intro and it just gives you a fun glimpse into all the things in my brain. Excited to expand on more of these ideas together <3