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THE BATTLE FOR MODeRN 1923


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the disposable

There have al­ways been dis­pos­able crea­tures. They do the dirty work. They do the work that no one else wants to do be­cause it’s too dif­fi­cult or too hazardous.”
—Guinan, Star Trek The Next Gen­er­a­tion, The Mea­sure of a Man, 1989

As Cal­i­for­nia fire­fight­ers work to con­tain the largest wild­fire in [Cal­i­for­nia] state his­to­ry, they find them­selves work­ing their 24-hour shifts along­side a group of un­like­ly part­ners: 3,400 in­mates from the Cal­i­for­nia De­part­ment of Cor­rec­tions and Re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion. The groups work in uni­son, but while salaried Cal­i­for­nia fire­fight­ers earn an an­nu­al mean wage of $74,000 plus ben­e­fits, in­mates earn just $2 per day with an ad­di­tion­al $1 per hour when fight­ing an ac­tive fire.”
Newsweek
 

For clarity’s sake:


 

I’m ab­solute­ly disgusted
with peo­ple say­ing this is okay be­cause these peo­ple have all their shit paid for and be­sides, they’re CRIM­I­NALS.

No aware­ness of how crim­i­nal pro­ceed­ings are stacked to­wards the pros­e­cu­tor so unfairly. 

No aware­ness of how the amend­ment that out­lawed slav­ery made in­ten­tion­al ex­cep­tions for criminals. 

No hu­man­i­ty enough to re­al­ize that we’re forc­ing peo­ple to do an in­cred­i­bly dan­ger­ous job for no mon­ey, a job we usu­al­ly have sooooooo much re­spect for.
 

Shit,
not even the pop cul­ture aware­ness to see that “we didn’t force you, but all your liv­ing is paid for, you just work and sleep and live here” IS LIT­ER­AL­LY THE BUSI­NESS MOD­EL OF WOR­RYFREE INC WHICH IS JUST A PAR­O­DY OF HOW FUCK­ING TER­RI­BLE AND OVER­RE­LIED UPON PRIS­ONS ARE.
 
 

I’ve been up just 15 min­utes and I’m fuck­ing tired.
 
 

—mel­ony ppenosyne

Flom­mist Mel­ony Ppenosyne is a writer and weird artist type. In the last year alone, she’s trav­eled to Vir­ginia as a com­pet­ing poet, co-writ­ten a play on men­tal ill­ness that is present­ly be­ing pro­duced, and craft­ed a pub­lished es­say check­ing the priv­i­lege and scope of art gal­leries. Copy­right © 2018 Mel­ony Ppenosyne. Pho­to up top: The Men­do­ci­no Fire, snapped 29 July 2018 by flom­mist Aman­da Maurer.

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