I'm In Good Shape. My Cancer Means

Wouldn't It Be Incredible If Everyone Could Be Purged, Somehow, Of The Projected Not-them Badness That They Internalized And Perhaps Have Acted Out Because Their Souls Have Been So Damaged? Wouldn't It Be Incredible If Everyone Could Find The Joy That Comes With Committing To Our Own Goodness? Perhaps We Would Stop Dividing Ourselves Into Malignancies Of Various Forms.

I Think It Was A Realization Of This Cancer, An Understanding Of The Broader Implications Of What Cancer Is. The Greed, The Ravaging Of Lands And Seas For Profit, The Taking Of Things That Don't Belong To Us; What We've Done To The Environment In This Fast-paced, Careless Hunger. I Think All Of That Was Happening In My Body.

I Think So Much Of Neoliberalism And Capitalism Has Caused People To Live In A State Of Greed, Fear And Consumption That Is Covering Up So Much Of What We Really Want.

The Fact That Women Have Been Moving Forward, That A Woman Was Running For President, That We Had A Black President - I Think There Was, Without A Doubt, A Whitelash And A Complete Backlash Against The Liberation Of Women, Against The Power Of People Of Color.

What Neo-capitalism Does So Brilliantly Is That It's Always Subdividing And Dividing, So That People Are Never Able To Be Joined In Their Numbers And Strength In A Unified Way. That Is Exactly What We Have To Overcome.