Stay Home

A Hermit’s Manifesto for a New Way of Being

Stay home.

That’s it.

Just stay home.

Not just now, during a pandemic, but also after.

When the politicians and powers that be try to push for things to go back to “normal.”

Stay home.

When they want you to go back to work for shitty wages.

Stay home.

When they try to tell you that Medicare4All won’t work.

Stay home.

When they try to say a UBI isn’t feasible.

Stay home.

Stay home until we’re all taken care of.

We already see the power of it.

The power of staying home.

We are what makes the world go round.

We have the power.

And the best flex of that power is to just stay home.

It won’t be easy.

It never is.

It demands a great deal of sacrifice. A willingness to be uncomfortable and to go without.

It demands returning to a simpler way of being.

One that, it turns out, really is better for us all.