this is not about you

“A for­mer friend of Re­pub­li­can vice pres­i­den­tial nom­i­nee J.D. Vance has come for­ward with a trove of emails show­ing a can­di­date whose past tone on trans­gen­der is­sues and polic­ing is at odds with the im­age he projects today.”
—J.D. Vance Told His For­mer Trans Friend “I Hate the Police”
 

J.D. Vance is a mas­ter­class

in how the search for fame, mon­ey, pow­er, and self-ag­gran­diza­tion twists a person.

His trans room­mate said he was a very dif­fer­ent per­son in only a few years. That he hat­ed cops af­ter George Floy­d’s murder. 

That he loved trans people.

And then he dis­cov­ered how easy it was to take ad­van­tage of oth­er peo­ple and stand on top of them to fur­ther his own image.

Even the best in­tend­ed be­gin­nings are twist­ed. We see that ex­am­ple of how pow­er cor­rupts over and over again.

And what lessons can you, the per­son read­ing this, take from his sto­ry? How can you ap­ply that knowl­edge (be it new or al­ready known) to your life?

If you have to lie and cause harm to get big­ger, that jour­ney will al­ways twist you.
Every jus­ti­fi­ca­tion you make for the jour­ney will al­ways build be­hav­iors and an in­ter­nal world that makes you an oppressor.
 

You can see ex­am­ples of this even in some­thing as small as (rel­a­tive to the en­tire US Gov­ern­ment) our art scene. 

Even that lev­el of pow­er – per­ceived or oth­er­wise – twists peo­ple and makes them turn against their own morals for the sake of recog­ni­tion and per­son­al growth.

The road to pow­er and fame is what changes you, and then the road to main­tain­ing that fame and pow­er changes you.

The only way to es­cape it is to not en­gage in the road or the main­te­nance, and fo­cus on grow­ing the world around you.

Let that growth car­ry oth­ers up.
Help them be­come greater,
and hand them the lesson. 

Teach them to grow the world around them,
and to share their spot­light every time they get it.

This life is not about you. The whole of hu­man his­to­ry, lead­ing up to your birth, was about you. But you are here now, and this life you have is not about you. 

I think the thing that makes me sad, writ­ing this, is I know there will be peo­ple who are of­fend­ed at the con­cept and if they even read it at all, it will only em­bold­en them to con­tin­ue their search.
 

Our world needs real change

down to how you and I process what it means to share space.

 

—david loret de mola

Flom­mist David Loret de Mola is a Grand Slam Po­et­ry Cham­pi­on of Sacra­men­to with Sac Uni­fied Slam Team and Zero For­bid­den Goals who has rep­re­sent­ed the City of Sacra­men­to in the Na­tion­al Po­et­ry Slam, and 100 Thou­sand Po­ets for Change in Saler­no, Italy. Copy­right © 2024 David Loret de Mola. Pho­to source.

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