What's on the agenda?

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By D. Menzies

Why, seems to go one way of thinking, is inequality and inequity always notable if it’s always a part of life? Like air. How often do you really acknowledge air?

If someone’s on the heavier end of those dynamics, the answer is obvious. If someone isn’t, or if someone sort of is but they align themselves with the lighter side of those dynamics, I’ve noticed the questioning of some “natural order” is often taken as an agenda.

And “agendas,” thanks in part to infotainment of a generally right-wing nature, are considered insidious.

Because life is hard enough without overt politics, right? And sometimes things are just about life and all that life encompasses … which yes that includes “politics,” but there’s a status quo politics of normalcy; and that’s not supposed to be an agenda. It’s more in the background and, depending on where you are, allows people to be overtly political in very specific contexts that even sometimes converge well with capitalism.

Here’s an agenda that probably doesn’t converge well with capitalism. If there’s anyone you know who has to keep existing on this planet for the foreseeable future, it may not seem particularly insidious, though.

Let’s try to avert more societal collapse.