Bragging About the Standard

Stop bragging about what should be standard. As an adult if you find yourself bragging about having a home or a car its past due time to raise your bar. These are standard necessities and things that as an adult you should have. Having a place to sleep and a way to get to work to pay for the place you sleep is currently how the system is setup. Boasting that you have achieved normalcy is a reflection of low self-esteem. The need to brag in and of itself is rooted in weakness and a childlike need for attention. It also feeds this 'me against you, look what I have and you don't' attitude that keeps us divided. We should also add to the list of non-braggable items buying clothes for your kids or spending any money/time on your kids. You are a parent and responsible for the life of that child. The only time this should be news to anyone is when you are not doing it. While I can certainly appreciate the fact that 'the struggle is real' and how our opponents have a 500 year head start and that we live in a system of white supremacy and blah blah blah  that has nothing to do with the bar we set for ourselves personally.

We need a culture change, one where cars and jewelry (material wealth of no value) aren't celebrated but ownership and economic empowerment are the standard (trillion plus annual spending power). In the system of white supremacy where is the worth in being divided? Where is the value in a 'look at me' separatist mentality (Bill Cosby found out the hard way)? Before we can change the culture the culture has to understand that it needs to be changed. We all feel it even if we cannot understand it. A person getting shot by the cops invokes an energy that something needs to change however, if we can't raise our personal bar and we are already divided it becomes impossible to get on code long enough to create change for the collective. Attention whoring reflects low morality and attention whoring over normalcy screams crisis. Change the culture and raise the standard.