We are the throwaway people, The ones who don’t fit in or conform to societal norms, The ones who are told every day they are not worth the inconvenience of getting to know Because it’s too hard to try to understand someone whose intuition is so outside the norm And for whom “common sense” is counterintuitive, We are Jesus and Galileo and Siddhartha and Einstein, Martin King and Tesla and Zoroaster and Moses, The ones who will move society forward because we cannot be complacent in a world designed to kill us, Or we are the countless others who died without names alone in a hole in the dark because the world around us was designed to kill us, And every day we get the message that society is better off without us, And maybe it is, for society doesn’t want to change, doesn’t want to be moved forward, It wants to stay the same, But the individuals in society will miss us, for they will be stuck in complacency without us, And they will not know what they’re mi...

Go die in a hole for the sake of society, What? No! Omg you’re so selfish! Yeah, because I haven’t spent my whole life helping people, and even though I am barely surviving, it doesn’t still give me a little thrill when I can make someone’s life better. You’re unwilling to stop the spread of coronavirus! I can’t believe you want a million people to die! What? Nobody wants a million people to die. I wish the virus weren’t here, but I can’t lock myself away from  people for an indeterminate amount of time. I don’t even have the coronavirus! You could! You never know! Maybe you’re asymptomatic! I can acknowledge the possibility, but that’s very unlikely. I am doing everything I can to prevent the spread  of the virus. I wash my hands and use hand sanitizer, I haven’t been exposed to anyone who has tested positive,  I have no symptoms. The WHO says asymptomatic carriers are not the biggest cause of viral spread anyway. But you *could* spread the virus ...

When you were young, they taught you to share, To give freely to others from what you had, They taught you not to hit, Because hurting others was wrong, And that you could always go to an adult for help If you could not solve the problem for yourself If they neglected to teach you how to give to yourself, And that hurting yourself is wrong and should never be done, And that sometimes nobody else can help you, So you must learn to stand up for yourself, It was only because of the false view of humanity That decries human beings as inherently selfish And assumes we already know how to love ourselves well Clearly, it’s working out so well for our society to keep building on this assumption, As we attempt to force people to love others that aren’t like them, But keep ignoring the fact that nobody knows how to love themselves Because from the moment they were born, They were taught That they, being human, Were inherently selfish and evil: Whethe...