Count Your Blessings

Count Your Blessings is neither a critique of a person nor a set of material conditions, but rather a critique of a conclusion drawn from said material conditions;

a critique of choosing the position of solipsistic martyrdom in the face of poverty rather than the one of solidarity with other marginalized people; 

a critique of using whiteness as a bargaining tool to leverage one’s own position in the world;

a critique of the ways that language is used to present divisive ideas, where the words being said do not match the intention of what’s being communicated;

a critique of the unexamined ties that bind private property to systems of white supremacy;

a critique of twisting the teachings of Christianity to build confines of exclusion;

a critique of the fight for power disguised as a pursuit of personal liberties;

a critique of the homogeneity of seemingly disparate systems: patriotism, evangelicalism, whiteness, patriarchy, notions of freedom, nostalgia, and fetishization of agrarian life — the conflation of the multiple into a monolith.