your own horrific actions
it doesn't matter so much how long its been since a breach and more how they acted about their breaches
also because i've heard some horror stories of people not getting library cards because they didn't understand the social contract of libraries: "rent" isn't the word most of us use because "rent" implies you fork over money to use the resource. libraries lend. they let you have the media, or the knowledge, or the entertainment and only expect that in return you use it to enrich your life. that through this interaction you become a little more wholly the person you were always meant to be
it becomes easier if you watch a sport you can play and grasp the difference between yourself and a professional athlete. basketball is my favorite for this because i know my skills are excellent passing and almost nothing else. i know how much time i've spent in the lab working on jumpers, free throws, and layups to still not have a good touch on the ball. then i see a player pass, shoot, dribble, cut, all almost flawlessly, and i can understand the gap between myself and them as skilled athletes. it's especially relevant to just go watch a shoot around. the worst three point shooter in the WNBA or NBA is a better three point shooter than anyone you've ever played against or with
nothing is ever random. watch the skies
we both are. but you have to think global and act local. our power is in our ability to convince the people around us that there's something wrong with the way things are and something to be done about it. so it starts with county politics, state politics, national politics, and then global. movements take years and they always start with shifting what's possible
same here all around. but if my octogenerian neighbors can take the time to demand that my great grand children i'll never meet have a planet worth living on, then i can do the same for the next generations, too. it doesn't have to be an all consuming fight, it's a marathon not a sprint, afterall. but that marathon starts with setting a goal, and one of those goals should be a planet where a long term view of resource management is taken. just accepting "it has to be somewhere" ignores the truth that it doesn't need to be at all. that people's ancestral lands matter. that clean oceans and ecosystems matter. destroying something in the name of progress isn't progress.
it doesn't have to be much. it starts with saying your local community should be cleaner, and that it shouldn't just dump its waste in another community. we all live together, ultimately.
i'll never forget when one of the Washington Mystics took up coaching for the Wizards. what NBA player is taking on a second job to make ends meet?
people are watching the WNBA though. the two best selling items in the basketball world are courtney clark's ball in size 29.5 (traditionally referred to as the men's size) and Sabrina Ionescu's unisex shoes. men are hooping with a woman's ball in a woman's set of signature shoes. women are hooping with a men's size ball in pickup games. any time i want to talk hoops with anyone we talk FIBA and WNBA because that's what we're all watching because we can access it and because it's the style of hoops we're playing.
the math the owners are saying that there's no money to be made in womens basketball and the lived reality people are experiencing aren't mathing. i'm not saying it rivals NBA basketball in finance and viewership, but i am saying the women are right to say the cash isn't flowing how it should and someone's lying about where all the money went.
it's televised on network TV, unlike the NBA and the women run plays you'd be familiar with unlike in the NBA. it's much more like the game you play with your friends or that's played in international 5 on 5 competitions. if you find it hard to watch i think you might just not be giving it a chance
it's more like if we don't talk about how these schemes of oppression hand off to eachother, pass the baton, now, the knowledge becomes lost to everyone but the academics who study ur-fascism. i work to be very considered in how i phrase things because words have meaning. i also come at it from the angle that a lot of people living in the imperial cores of America, Russia, and China don't even recognize that they live in the hellscape outlined in George Orwell's Nineteen-Eighty-Four and that talking about capitalism v communism is not the fight most of the world at large is having, they're talking about fascism v anarchy.
libraries are both proof that anarchism could work under the right conditions AND a great place to meet anarchists