people were starving and homeless when there was only a billion people on the planet
the problem isnt the amount of people the problem is that a small number of them are hoarding so many resources that the others are starving and dying homeless
capitalism is fundamentally unsustainable and fundamentally oppressive
I know it’s more familiar shorthand to call it a ‘love spell’, but I think it’s really important that what Suzie cast was actually, in her words, a peace spell. This wasn’t some Midsummer Night’s Dream romantic trance where loving feelings that hadn’t been there before were suddenly called into existence. No. She wanted peace instead of frenzy, and the wand interpreted that peace as a stripping away of the layers of inhibition and pretence, a letting-down of guards, until everyone at the concert was reduced to their simplest, most peaceful state. Their core, if you like.
And for Dirk, Todd and Farah, that core, that peace, is each other. What you’re left with when you take away their façades, when you root out their fears and anxieties and expectations, what’s there is their friendship, their connection. Todd’s absolute joy that his life was rewritten by Dirk’s entrance into it. Dirk’s pure delight in Todd’s promise to be friends forever, the most important declaration he’s ever heard. Farah, finally free of her family’s shadows and embracing her true self, her revelry in and, crucially, her acceptanceof who she becomes when she’s with them.
They’re all very messed up people. Todd will continue to lapse into self-loathing from time to time. Farah’s anxiety isn’t gone just because she has friends. Dirk might never really be free of the trauma he’s been through. And since their three paths collided, there has been very little obvious, external peace in their surroundings. But they’re each other’s peace. That will always be there, underneath.
Modern Life is Rubbish 