on "inter"

 

Edited by me. Gravelinstitute. (2019, April 23) . END THE WAR ON THE EARTH Donate $1 to help us make ALL Democrats adopt the Green New Deal: http://bit.ly/2XxOMVz#EarthDay2019 [Twitter post]. Retrieved from https://twitter.com/GravelInstitute/status/1120691804398084096/photo/1

The poster above displays an idyllic mountainous landscape and shows instead of an expected corny motivational quote a quite provocative lettering with: “compost the rich”.

This wallpaper is or better was a part of the 2020 presidential run of ex senator Mike Gravel (which just recently ceased his campaign officially this August). He even reached one of the running requirements and surpassed the threshold of at least 65'000 individual donations.

Anyway I choose this “poster” because the focus on contemporary issues and I really love the story behind it as well as the message it carries. It is insane for me, if I think of it, that basically two eighteen year old guys got together based on an podcast they collectively enjoyed and teamed up with a more or less infamous ex senator and got him to sign up to run for the With House. The young activists were the front runners of the organization and now they just initiated the “Gravel Institute“ which aims to counter notorious mass misinformation from conservative organizations (particularly PragerU) with cited sources and defend basic “leftist” concepts and ideas.

The Gravel Institute. (2020, September 29). How to Defeat PragerU: Introducing the Gravel Institute [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvI68YO7dVY.

Reflecting on this and the last blog entry just below I have to mention maybe my politic change I experienced over the last three years. It started with rather bad working conditions as an untrained student employee. Seeing other people(mostly from more vulnerable backgrounds) treated without any respect from higher-ups or customers. There was just a completely lack of compassion and relation to problems of the working people.

Looking for intersections. I dislike the notion of having a burning passion which one could assign their whole life to. I’ve got the feeling that there’s this expectation on a societal level to be dedicated to a sole cause and there’s even a pressure to make a lasting impact. At the moment I’m still interested in too many things and figuring finding my own way even though I’d consider myself as “pretty” old.

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