I often hear that we can solve multiple problems at once. No we can’t! We prioritize. Sure, we can feed a baby, watch TV and put a finger in our nose to pull out some dirt at the same time but we don’t if we want to fully do what we have to do: you need a mirror and to go deep to nicely get that booger. My point is there’s an order to follow always, be it for a mom, an operating system, a company or sending back home a space module. To solve problems aka get shit done you create lists and you prioritize items.
To me prioritization starts with women. Let’s start with half the planet, shall we? Once equality is achieved with them, much better. Then let’s go with race because well the same, it touches a lot of people and it’s been going on for way too long. Let’s reach equality here too.
Well, I’m pretty sure if all that was to happen, a lot of bad things like how we treat our polar bears or how we damage our soil would stop immediately. We wouldn’t even need to fight for it, it would be simply common sense in an equalitarian world. Gay rights? Of course guys. A broader definition of gender? Absolutely. War on drugs? Aborted. I mean who’d give a shit now? Who would be against that in a genuinely equalitarian society? Voted! Bam, the next day it’s reality.
Instead we get super intense on problems that are children of parents that we don’t blame for nothing. We don’t connect the dots: we want more women at the top while they discover their own bodies in their 20s or are still raised as little princesses, it cannot work can it? While same sex marriage is great, I really wish people would throw as much energy against sexism and racism which are thriving forces still, no matter what your political views are. I wish media would be relentless on that, instead of playing on how people divide themselves through archaic values like marriage and who can use it. I wish I would see people posting about saving foster care kids at least once instead of dogs over and over. Yeah. It hurts, I know.
People don’t want or don’t have the time to read the whole story. They simply need an external cause to defend to feel better, preferably popular, and that’s it. There’s no reflection on a question like where the fuck the main problems come from?
So let’s start the sequence, step by step. It doesn’t work? Start over. Connect the dots. That’s how we do.