Just Thinking Out Loud

I'd  like to pursue the concept of poverty and how we apply that framework to perceptions of impoverished peoples and how that dichotomy sets up a perpetuating cycle of victimhood and multi-generational poverty mentality. Its a thought that has been percolating in my head. Defining poverty, the have and have-nots, noble poor vs. undeserving poor, and the systemic, historical, developmental, environmental, and corporate interests that all play into how the concept of poverty is created.

 Also, I'ge been thinking about the inseparableness of the destruction of the planet and the deep, systemic misogyny of American culture. For all its touted "independence" as a main cultural value, we are fast approaching the top of the list in regards to extreme inequality of the sexes. Women's liberation has been slowly moving backwards over the last decade or so. We have embraced self-degredation as a means of power, (a woefully inaccurate and DIS-empowering belief). We have the freedom and independence only as far as we perpetuate the sexist dogma on ourselves or risk being wholey out of step with society. There is a connection between the way this Patriarchal society views Women's worth and views the worth of nature, of the land. It is only as valuable as what monetary  value can be culled from. Likewise, a woman's worth, no matter what she may or may not accomplish, overcome, contribute, can always be reduced to a measuring up against an imaginary ideal built to accesorize a man.