The world comes to a halt for a day or two. You get to take your kids sledding, you build a snow man. You have a snowball fight. You get cold and wet. You go home to get changed into your warm pyjamas and sit by the fire with a hot chocolate. You’re exhausted, but you laugh and joke with each other about the fun you’ve had.
You go back to work 2 days later and fuck all has changed. The world keeps turning, the rich have lost a tiny bit of their wealth from you not been ‘productive’ for 1 day. Oh fucking well.
We’re so bound up in keeping the big capitalism wheel turning, that life’s fun moments just pass us by.
We still have those in the South but they are hurricane days. You won’t wanna be outside on those days but hey you get to experience the good ol days. No power, an ice box, not a cellphone in sight.
Nothing to do but eat all your food before it goes bad, and drink all your beer before it gets warm.
So long as you are not in the direct path that is, and able to find a home built after Hurricane Andrew killed all those people that is…
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The world comes to a halt for a day or two. You get to take your kids sledding, you build a snow man. You have a snowball fight. You get cold and wet. You go home to get changed into your warm pyjamas and sit by the fire with a hot chocolate. You’re exhausted, but you laugh and joke with each other about the fun you’ve had.
You go back to work 2 days later and fuck all has changed. The world keeps turning, the rich have lost a tiny bit of their wealth from you not been ‘productive’ for 1 day. Oh fucking well.
We’re so bound up in keeping the big capitalism wheel turning, that life’s fun moments just pass us by.
We still have those in the South but they are hurricane days. You won’t wanna be outside on those days but hey you get to experience the good ol days. No power, an ice box, not a cellphone in sight.
Nothing to do but eat all your food before it goes bad, and drink all your beer before it gets warm.
So long as you are not in the direct path that is, and able to find a home built after Hurricane Andrew killed all those people that is…