And apocalypse porn - I don't watch because it frightens me - objectifies people, desensitizes, and deadens us as if to prepare us for the inevitability of our own destruction as a species.

The end isn't what disturbs me as much as the needless suffering that leads to the end. Billions of people suffering and dying. It has begun and will only get worse.

It's the patriarchy and its buddy capitalism that makes all of us into objects - the 99% and the power-possessors. All of us are addicted to every-thing in the 21st century and that in-part contrbutes to the suffering - growing exponientally as we write this.