An oppressive system often seems stable because it limits people’s lives and imaginations so much that they can’t see beyond the limitations. This is especially true when a social system has existed for so long that its past extends beyond collective memory of anything different. As a result, it lays down terms of social life - including various forms of privilege - that can easily be mistaken for some kind of normal and inevitable human condition.
But this situation masks a fundamental long-term instability caused by the dynamics of oppression itself. Any system organized around one group’s efforts to control and exploit another is ultimately a losing proposition, because it contradicts the essentially uncontrollable nature of reality and does violence to basic human needs and values.
— Allan G. Johnson (via wretchedoftheearth)
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darkness in other people.
— Carl Jung (via disimba)
She told me all we do is fight anymore
I told her “rest easy, love. This is just a rough patch. We will see brighter days again”
but while I was resting easy she slipped out the door
And now she’s dancing in the sunlight with another girl and I’m still
waiting for this rough patch to be
over
