This image if from a tour of Philadelphia focusing on history & culture They focus on this coffee house, then walk past the monument of the often overlooked cofounder, Tamanend… without even glancing at it, symbolizing modern society as a whole.
In reflection, it highlights the illusion that is modern society. People act in accordance with what they think will bring them social merit, not for the sake of the action itself.
Signs like these are like a McDonalds uniform for African Americans, you’ll never see glorification of their ancestral culture pre-colonization, as that would truly empower. The free freedom that was is a direct challenge to the freedom bought and sold.
“Capitalism being slavery perfected,” ~prof jiang. fear of the boogie man streets our chains. Fear that if we lose our job, our Wife will leave us with our Kids, while we get branded as the one who abandoned them, like Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Dad.
Places like Florida practically outlawed living on the streets, criminalizing freedom in its purest form. The freedom to call Earth our home.