I feel such incredible sorry imagining this kid, with a handgun, going into his school and crying out that nobody can help him. That mental state is so terribly difficult and such a mess. Like… Really? Losing a girlfriend and your spot on a track team is enough to do that? Something is deeply TERRIBLY wrong if these are the only two things in someone’s life, that their whole life has been built up around only those things and that they feel absolutely nothing else is worth living for, that they don’t even have any connection with their family.

It’s really disgusting and awful. Neoliberalism is what does this. I remember it myself, the upbringing, the focus on rather meaningless goals rather than human being and human relationships and our connections in our communities. Just an endless series of aspirational goals to slot into the capitalist system as a worker, nothing else matters.

It’s so fucking easy for kids to just not learn anything other than “the system” and end up in this state.

Smash it all.