From The Grapes of Wrath:
“There’s some way to stop this. It’s not like lightning or earthquakes. We’ve got a bad thing made by men, and by God that’s something we can change.”
Chapter 5 of that book goes hard at who might be responsible.
We got an answer this week as to who we might kill.
“But where does it stop? Who can we shoot? I don’t aim to starve to death before I kill the man that’s starving me.”
…
“Maybe there’s nobody to shoot. Maybe the thing isn’t men at all. Maybe like you said, the property’s doing it.”
Shooting CEOs is probably not the answer.
Make the world better and maybe fewer people will think it’s a reasonable answer.
Violence seems more like an emergent property of the current system.
Some say violence is the only language the current system has.
Both are vaguely true, but neither adequately describes the system.
Ugh.
