I Want Some of Y’all to Fail

I want some of y’all to fail. Not because I’m jealous but because you are dangerous and see harming and silencing people as the acceptable cost for your material and social gains. You are the rotten flesh protecting the corrupt core of so many things and rather than excise the corruption and heal the rot, you spread your shitty values to others and make them complicit in your foulness.

You destroy those who see you as you are. You silence those you think may reveal what you are. You band together and cover for each other, maintaining the putrid mess our society has become. You actively recruit others and infect them, too. And when you are finally devoured by the rot you created, you scream “why is this happening to me,” never acknowledging how you cosigned on this way back when and kept the monster fed.

So yes, I want you to fail. I want the rot to collapse on itself and disappear. But the rot isn’t fast enough because the structure holding it together is too vast and varied. Too many people are fine with whatever destruction they create to protect themselves. And that is a challenging thing to observe and feels like an impossible thing to fight.

But still, we try.

Some of us, anyway.

Originally posted August 28, 2020, on Facebook.