sport of sacred spherical cows on Nostr: Yes, exactly. That's what makes the few sacrifices that are made so significant. They ...

Yes, exactly. That's what makes the few sacrifices that are made so significant. They stand out against a desolate background of dispossession.

The sacrifices are made, far more often than one might appreciate, but they're paltry and disconnected from any real human connection. A few dollars to a homeless person once in a decade. A credit card charge to a charitable cause.

Worse, they can be manufactured out of whole cloth. The whole discourse of harm reduction is a discourse of sacrifice. Yes, we don't like this candidate either, but we have to grit our teeth and vote for them, and in doing so, we sacrifice, we are good people.

Meanwhile, quisitiarchy invests a great deal of energy and wealth, in ensuring that said background of dispossession is maintained.

We pay a premium to keep folk unhoused. Those of perquistive classposture will fight tooth and nail to externalize housing to someplace else, knowing full well that doing so externalizes housing to nowhere.