We have been thinking long and hard about this and figured out it isn’t just one thing, it is a mixture of:
Capitalism
Colonialism
Patriarchy
Misogyny
Racism
Cops
Constant surveillance
Monoallocisbinaryhetnormativity
Queer{phobia/misia}
Representative democracy
Monarchies
The legal system in most places
Heirarchy in general
Authoritarianism
etc etc
All these things keep causing extreme harm to the people who live under them yet we keep being told it is for our own good by those who have everything to gain from keeping things the way they are leading to people either tearing themselves apart by trying to live up to the impossible system/standards or failing to do so and dying or worse.
We have been thinking long and hard about this and figured out it isn’t just one thing, it is a mixture of:
All these things keep causing extreme harm to the people who live under them yet we keep being told it is for our own good by those who have everything to gain from keeping things the way they are leading to people either tearing themselves apart by trying to live up to the impossible system/standards or failing to do so and dying or worse.