Stopping Shopping

The sun is shining, the temperature is over 60F and I’m off Facebook.

This is the day that’s been set aside by a few million Americans, perhaps, to pull back our credit cards and our wallets and withhold our coin from the profit-driven commercial segment of America. One day, 24 hours… to deliver the message that the pyramid’s top is supported by the foundation: Those with their heads up in the rarified airs of the apex stone need to be reminded who put them there, who keeps them there. That there are more of us than there are of them. 

I didn’t realize that staying off Meta’s platform, ie, Facebook, was part of it as much as not shopping with Amazon, until seeing a post from Robert Reich that came up this morning, 11 hours after it was posted. Thing about FB is that so often I receive notifications hours or days after an announcement or event. Anyway… here we are exploring all the ways we are not, in fact,  incommunicado from everyone just because we’ve silenced our FB voices. In fact, that’s what we, below the rarified airs, have needed to be reminded of.

So, today is an at-home day, getting done some house-cleaning which is, seems to me, entirely in the spirit of the day.