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IDEA!
I think it would be so cool if someone made an animation based off of the Disney song "Colors of the Wind" (if anyone ever feels the need to make this come to life by all means PLEASE 🙏)
Like there is a person that the scene is following and they're singing the song but in like modern times showing off like cities and people just interacting and LIVING
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🎶"You think I'm an ignorant savage" 🎶
The speaker (for the sake of this I'm going to call them "C" for citizens or something or like the people) is singing towards the camera or another idea is is that there is another person (I'm going to call this figure G) that is kind of just like a blank slate or like a shadow figure so like there's no identifiable features just that it's a being that is there and present and they are the one being addressed
-maybe there's a foggy blurry distant perception of an angry mob behind C that's kind of like a mirage
🎶"And you've been so many places"🎶
Pan rich people stuff, like boats and planes and maybe high class parties with suits and dresses and champagne or whatnot
🎶"I guess it must be so"🎶
🎶"But still, I cannot see"🎶
Maybe there's a close up of C and in their eyes you can see different scenes of people crying over bills in their hand well at the hospital, and then maybe it pans to some rich higher up connected to the hospital and they're laughing having fun over fancy dinner in a suit at some party
🎶"If the savage one is me"🎶
could be kind of cool if the poor side was reflected in one eye and the rich was reflected in the other at the same time so you could see the contrast
🎶"How can there be so much that you don't know?"🎶
Maybe it pans two other unfortunate scenes filtering in C's eyes that show the wide contrast between the rich and the poor
🎶"You don't know"🎶
...No longer a close-up of C...
🎶"You think you own whatever land you land on"🎶
C is singing at them and pokes G's chest and then gestures around them with their arms open
🎶"The Earth is just a dead thing you can claim"🎶
maybe pan to scenes that go on in the background like a one of those old photo tapes that are like long strips of different photos of places being conquered/ taken over/ claimed, or natural resources being picked dry like a scene of trees being cut down, or they're digging up dirt for oil or something
🎶"But I know every rock and tree and creature"🎶
I think would be cool if the scene blurs and it looks like it's spinning and then suddenly it looks like C and G a walking down a path and C is greeting people and saying hi or like giving brief hugs before they keep walking down the path
🎶"Has a life, has a spirit, has a name"🎶
C looks back at G and gestures one arm out then there's like scenes of the people he just greeted or said hi to just living life, interacting with other people, smiling, talking doing things maybe playing with kids or walking a dog or going in a coffee shop or something
🎶"You think the only people who are people"🎶
And then maybe it shows a whole bunch of different people from all over the world and different cultures with all different features and looks and languages from all kinds of different backgrounds just showing them having small interactions and day to day life (including different genders and sexualities)
🎶"Are the people who look and think like you"🎶
Maybe pan to rich people doing rich people things?
🎶"But if you walk the footsteps of a stranger"🎶
It continues to pan between the different scenes, maybe some showing different kinds of cultural celebrations
🎶"You'll learn things you never knew, you never knew"🎶
Meanwhile all these scenes are going by, maybe it looks like they're invisible but in the room where all these different people just watching it happen. But it also shows other scenes like the poor and the hungry and the homeless and all the others that society tends to forget about, that they are people too, and that they're hurting, maybe it shows scenes like a mother going hungry just so she can give her kids the meager scraps of food, for a father working himself to the bone to try to provide, or younger person having to put up with other people tormenting them at work because they need the job to be able to put food on the table and pay their rent
🎶"Have you ever heard the wolf cry to the blue corn moon?"🎶
Maybe pan to a street artist playing guitar and singing something and has a hat out for cash, maybe pans too something to show money problems, maybe an eviction notice
🎶"Or asked the grinning bobcat why he grinned?"🎶
Maybe a scene of a clearly overworked and exhausted father that puts a smile on for his kid but then turns around and looks at his empty wallet and loses his smile making sure his kids can't see
Then it pans to other similar scenes where people are struggling and hurting while C keeps singing
🎶"Can you sing with all the voices of the mountain?"🎶
🎶"Can you paint with all the colors of the wind?"🎶
🎶"Can you paint with all the colors of the wind?"🎶
🎶"Come run the hidden pine trails of the forest"🎶
Maybe show something where the scene is weaving down streets and corners and it comes upon a a family who is struggling but is just happy to have each other
🎶"Come taste the sun sweet berries of the Earth"🎶
Maybe a scene of poor kids running through the forest barefoot or something and stumbling upon a berry bush and they just present great joy as they start stuffing handfuls in their folded shirts
🎶"Come roll in all the riches all around you"🎶
Maybe the camera starts pointing towards the sky from in the forest so you can see beautiful gigantic trees reaching towards the heavens and maybe birds play together as they fly by, and the camera is spinning in a circle? And/or C has their face towards the sky and their arms wide open as they spin in circles in a small clearing
🎶"And for once, never wonder what they're worth"🎶
Maybe one of the playful birds comes down and perches on C's arm/hand
.... Scene change, maybe in a city again
🎶"The rainstorm and the river are my brothers"🎶
Pan to different people, maybe people of different cultures and genders
🎶"The heron and the otter are my friends"🎶
🎶"And we are all connected to each other"🎶
Maybe a scene where it shows that things are all connected to each other like sunlight to plants and deer to wolves and bodies to mushrooms and stuff like that?
🎶"In a circle, in a hoop that never ends"🎶
🎶"How high does the sycamore grow?"🎶
Maybe show a massive gigantic tree that C stands at the base of and opens its arms wide upwards towards its leaves
🎶"If you cut it down, then you'll never know"🎶
🎶"And you'll never hear the wolf cry to the blue corn moon"🎶
Maybe show a street view of the place where the street performer used to sing/play and just show a dirty ruined trampled on hat that's just abandoned on the sidewalk
🎶"For whether we are white or copper skinned"🎶
C is facing towards the camera and has arms wide, on one side it shows the average in poor people in their plane worn clothes and the other it shows rich people with fancy suits or expensive stuff or whatever
🎶"We need to sing with all the voices of the mountain"🎶
Maybe show C with the mob behind them like the beginning but this time they're happy and holding hands and stuff
🎶"We need to paint with all the colors of the wind"🎶
🎶"You can own the Earth and still"🎶
Maybe show something where people are farming or gathering but still tending to the Earth
🎶"All you'll own is Earth until"🎶
Show people shopping down trees and digging for oil
🎶"You can paint with all the colors of the wind"🎶
Have C bring their arms in close to their chest and cover their heart
work gave me covid but refused to pay me for the time I spent quarantining. money is super tight this month and anything helps!
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Note To Society #19
There’s nothing wrong with being poor, and these people deserve to live happily just as much as any rich person. Respect people based on their character, not their monetary status.
the perfect girl.
Pov: your parents where poor as fuck so you lived off this when you where kid
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Poor Rayman. 😢
My baby... 😿🥀💔 He didn't deserve to die that way. 😟
I don’t really have a choice since I can’t drive or afford a car. It’s bike or bus for me, ride shares are too expensive. But honestly I like bike riding anyway.
Bike propaganda by me
WHAT THE FUCK I HAVE -£7.28 IN MY BANK ACCOUNT!!! WHAT THE FUCKKKKKK!!! 😂🔫
Bowynn Gods: Hemwey
Hemwey (Hem-way) Hemwey is the Bowynn goddess of Compassion and care for those that are often down-trodden. Most particular, Hemwey tends to the poor, the ill and those that are suffering through life. She is the lifter of heads and hope. Her parents are Rhya and Anhur and she is the sister of Daekk and Tymora.
Hemwey is a caring and nurturing goddess, spending little time in Alaway but preferring to walk the night streets to bring help to those that need to sleep there. She is sister to the goddess of fortune, Tymora. Together they help the destitute. Even as a child, before taking her position in the great pantheon she loved to walk the villages where mortals live and play with the children of the poor; Bringing a smile to their face and bringing food and medicine to families in need. often such gifts were left in a small bundle by their feet. These offerings and gifts of hope please Hemwey so much that the goddess eventually chose to fore-go marriage and the pleasantries of Alaway and live among peasants. However, Hemwey is not a goddess that tends to those that do not try to better themselves or the lazy. One story speaks of her running into a man that was barely wearing a cloth to cover home and covered in filth. The goddess took him to her simple home, bathed, clothed and fed him. The next day the man appeared again the same way. This happened 7 times in total. Finally, the goddess discovered the man was merely using her and other people’s generosity. It was from this that the goddess learned for the first time that some people can be cruel and lazy. However instead of ignoring him, Hemwey gave the man the richest of garments and a huge cash pile. She did this every day and everyday people saw him. Thinking the man was a rich merchant, the poor started to beg him constantly for assistance. By the end of each day, he had no money left.
Hemwey is a motherly looking goddess with very simple garments. Her hair free of make-up, her hair long and her feet bear. If she does not appear as a peasant woman herself to others she comes in the form of a cat or a cool autumn breeze. Seen in her true form she bears a basket or bag in her arm with bundles of gifts: food, drink, shoes and coins.
Sacred gifts and offering to Hemwey are food of any type but bread is her choice. Libation is milk or water. And of course, incense. Coins of generosity are also a prized offering to the goddess.
Being poor is dangerous. Being POC while poor? Even more dangerous.
NO.1
The question, ‘‘Is being poor dangerous’, an easy question to answer for those who suffer from being poor. Yes, it is highly dangerous, spiritually, emotionally, and physically. People usually move to cities in the U.S, and cities are segregated. Each person, family, etc. has a different background, therefore they have a different connection with others unlike themselves. That means different habitus’ and different inequalities, for those who are not rich.
NO.2
This all has to do with the economic structure, between poor, middle class and rich. Segregation is everywhere, and in cities, it is an intermix of ethnicity, citizenship, indigeneity, and class, and when they are intertwined, they create systems of labor, respect and suffering. The physical differences in the conditions of life, especially barbaric. Throughout the hierarchy of suffering, the opportunities decrease and the social hardships increase as you go down the ladder, and depending on what race you are, the more dangerous, psychologically strenuous and physically stressful it can be. Everyone is structurally vulnerable, and each person can participate in what is called the Gray Zone.
NO.3
Primo Levi defines it as the knowledge of the corrupt system but trying to survive within it, whether you’re at the top or at the bottom, and when you are at the bottom, the system is designed to make people remain there. For Mexican workers who choose to make the difficult journey to work in the strawberry fields in Southern California, they are kept segregated by race, class, and citizenship, they have limited opportunities to afford the basic needs we use every single day, either access to affordable healthcare or able to get a decent paying job. Collective bad faith, or as Nancy Scheper-Hughes calls it, is the self deception to help you feel okay about the work you do in the moral gray zone. One example would be the strange concept of naturalization, like black deaths at the hands of police officers. A more basic definition would be seeing an oppressed people and saying that they like being oppressed, making you feel better about the injustice. Since we see it go on for so long, the moral injustice, we normalize it, or that it just part of ‘the game’. The game is to thrive, survive, and suffer in the social world, where you are both dominated and dominant. We justify it because they are different, and say it is normal.
NO.4
‘‘For decades, experts have agreed that racial disparities in health spring from pervasive social and institutional forces. The scientific literature has linked higher rates of death and disease in African Americans to such ‘social determinants’ as residential segregation, environmental waste, joblessness, unsafe housing, targeted marketing of alcohol and cigarettes, and other inequalities; Racism, other researchers suggests, acts as a classic chronic stressor, setting off the same physiological train wreck as job strain or martial conflict: higher blood pressure, elevated heart rate, increases in the stress hormone cortisol, suppressed immunity. Chronic stress is also known to encourage unhealthy behaviors, such as smoking and eating too much, that themselves raise the risk of disease.’’ From How Racism Hurts—Literally.
I don't think it's bad to love money but life over everything! Love over everything! Truth over everything! Humanity over everything!!
Rethink homelessness
I had my father get sick when I was 22. And I was poor, alright. And my father had an ulcer, and it exploded and you know all these toxins get in your blood. And basically, my father died, whatever, 50 days after his ulcer. So I had a father get sick while I was poor. My mother got sick when I was rich. And my mother, you know… I don’t really want to get into it, but my mother was sicker than my father. And my mother’s alive. My mother’s fine, OK? I remember going to the hospital to see my mother and wondering, ‘Was I in the right place?’ Like, this was a hotel. Like it had a concierge, man. People don’t… if the average person really knew the discrepancy in the health care system, there’d be riots in the streets, OK? They would burn this motherfucker down!”
Chris Rock [video]
Bringing this back, because some people don’t seem to understand that there is a discrepancy in the quality of care among poor, middle-class, and wealthy people, NO MATTER HOW DEBILITATING THEIR RESPECTIVE DISEASES MAY BE.
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Forever reblog.
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I only have enough money for food or drugs, not both. I am facing a very hard decision rn :(
