1:38pm November 29, 2011

Level of freedom varies by tiny little pieces being different

This is part one of my responses to Thrown Out of the Citizen Ship by Dave Hingsburger. It’s really important to me that people understand things like this, because most people just… don’t. They don’t, and then they try to change things, and they make more of the same. So here’s what I wrote. I didn’t write it with any plan in mind, it’s just what came out of my fingers after reading Dave’s article:

Here (where I’m in the DD service system) it’s not even agency by agency. It’s person by person, day by day, hour by hour, year by year, and that’s all the difference between the best and the worst. And even when a practice is claimed to be in the past doesn’t mean it is. And even when an agency claims to be beyond institutionalizing us doesn’t mean it is either. Just because everyone lives in different places, nominally in our communities, doesn’t mean the power structures, or even our separation from society, is that different than those behind locked doors. (And those behind locked doors isn’t always the worst… because those that don’t lock the doors learn to lock our brains instead.)

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