Yesterday on IG I spoke about how the generation of Boomers in power right now were infants during a time that parenting = do not pick up your baby, let them cry lest you spoil them, breastfeeding is for peasants...

Self-abandonment is sewn into the fabric of our power hierarchies due to this pattern generational neglect.

At the same time, that patter of indulgence and addiction breeds a selfishness rooted in a deep fear of emotional scarcity. Boomers came up during the most wealthy...

time in American history. And yet they withhold from their children and their grandchildren as if they are preparing them for an inevitable world. Instead, they are perpetuating the trauma of abandonment and neglect.

Children being seen and not heard is erasure. Not understanding that the youth are tasked with your care as you age is the worst kind of self-abandonment. If you do not care for the generations that come behind you, you are effectively abandoning yourself...

Then we get a generation of senior home + nursing home parents. Again, abandonment and neglect.

This is why it's so important to understand the neglect and abandonment you've experienced at the hands of your caregivers as part of a larger cultural fabric of self-abandonment and generational abandonment in order to preserve capitalism.

When I say that capitalism indoctrinates us into counting time for currency instead of relationship I mean that capitalism requires a complete surrender of our bodies and relationships...

Our relationships with each other, especially our children, are contextualized into a framework where time is money. And we start counting our time for currency rather than relationship.

Our task during the next 20 years or so is this:

We must shift from storing our value and values in currency to storing our value and values in relationship. What does a world look like where time is relationship and not money?

The value of currency is easily manipulated in favor of those who have the power. And the power they have is not innate or inherent. They possess power due to patriarchy + white supremacy + settler colonialism.

The value of relationship, however, is not easily manipulated.

Poverty is a fabricated condition of lack used as a weapon to lock the masses into a violent caste system. That caste system preserves the power of patriarchy and white supremacy.

Emotional scarcity, too, is a fabricated condition of lack.

What does emotional scarcity look like?

*Mother's forced to leave their helpless infant in the hands of strangers after 2-6 after having been born
*Mother's left without communities of care and support during the vulnerable weeks and months after childbirth...

*Parents forced to choose wages or relationship with their children
*Elders left to die alone and lonely
*Children indoctrinated into authoritarian power hierarchies through schooling. Good child = speaking when told to speak, emptying their bladder and bowels when given...

permission, eating and playing and resting when told to.
*Children's and adult's sleep (and all other self care) determined by capitalist time rather than being determined by an authentic attunement to each other and our bodies...

I could go on.

I spoke about all of this during my reading for the full moon - The Power of Protection: