Corie Young

“I thought about my complicity
all the time or not at all. My role in America’s joyless abundance.”
― H.R. Webster

“all of this is done in service of avoiding repair; all done in service of a worldview that decides every day to enforce a system in which people do not matter if they don’t make profit for others, in which others will never matter simply because of who they are; a world in which repair is seen as theft, in which those who are deemed unworthy are punished for the crime of not mattering, in which those who are punished are blamed for their punishment, and made to pay as much of the higher burden of brokenness as possible, so that a constantly shrinking elect can enjoy the profits.”
― A.R. Moxon, Very Fine People

“Here’s a new idea: There are not two sides, but many. Here’s a new idea: We don’t need to listen to both sides, because we are the sides, multitudinous in number, and we are listening to each other already. Here’s a new idea: The people who refuse to repent of their blamelessness don’t get to be one whole side in a binary. They aren’t allowed to force us all into one side, and then wait for us to beg them for our permission to exist. Both sides? We are the sides. We are the sides. We are the sides.”
― A.R. Moxon, Very Fine People

“Yes, and what do we mean when we say “we’ve rarely been so polarized,” anyway? What if instead we introduced new ideas? What if instead we said “It’s been a long time since awareness of the reality of injustice has been made so unavoidably present to otherwise comfortable people?” What if instead we said “It’s been a long time since so many people have become so violently resentful of the moral demands of justice?”
― A.R. Moxon, Very Fine People