You don't matter
That says it all.
How we feel about public spaces. How we feel about the personal safety about our loved ones and ourselves. And how little say or control we have over those things.
If you have a rundown road, broken streetlight, clogged storm drain and no sewer line. The only way to get any public amenities or attention is to hope and pray someone from the civil services or affiliated to a political party moves into the neighbourhood. Or maybe if an election is around the corner, they want you to have pleasant thoughts about the system. You may run into the occasional person who does their job. But these brave souls are far and few.
The lack of care for one's work is evident in roads, offices, highways, airports, railways, parks and most services really. It feels like a logical extension of our indifference to our physical capacities, environment and food.
I have no clue what threshold of power or wealth one has to cross to gain any degree of agency or influence to improve the public sphere.
But I am guessing it's easier to flee it all and head for the less populated hinterlands or just go anywhere really. As is evidenced by efflux of immigrants, passports and pincodes are easier to change than people's attitudes.
And just reduce your interaction and dependence with agents or services of the government for anything related to quality of life. Akin to reducing our carbon footprint, we can call this our regime footprint and try and reduce this footprint to a pinky print.
That says it all.
How we feel about public spaces. How we feel about the personal safety about our loved ones and ourselves. And how little say or control we have over those things.
If you have a rundown road, broken streetlight, clogged storm drain and no sewer line. The only way to get any public amenities or attention is to hope and pray someone from the civil services or affiliated to a political party moves into the neighbourhood. Or maybe if an election is around the corner, they want you to have pleasant thoughts about the system. You may run into the occasional person who does their job. But these brave souls are far and few.
The lack of care for one's work is evident in roads, offices, highways, airports, railways, parks and most services really. It feels like a logical extension of our indifference to our physical capacities, environment and food.
I have no clue what threshold of power or wealth one has to cross to gain any degree of agency or influence to improve the public sphere.
But I am guessing it's easier to flee it all and head for the less populated hinterlands or just go anywhere really. As is evidenced by efflux of immigrants, passports and pincodes are easier to change than people's attitudes.
And just reduce your interaction and dependence with agents or services of the government for anything related to quality of life. Akin to reducing our carbon footprint, we can call this our regime footprint and try and reduce this footprint to a pinky print.