(4/?) After I departed the #toxic #leftist #activist group, I floated around to other groups and saw, perhaps less outright toxicity and infighting, but similar cycles of groups using people up, burning people out, and then replacing them with new people.

This is not only an unsustainable organizing model, but it's cruel. It is mirroring the #disposability mindset of #capitalism in which people have no inherent worth but are instead only valuable in what they can produce. It is not a model that values #care, #compassion, or #community. And yet I see it over and over and over again in so many groups that claim to be on the #left or #progressive.

If you want to know why people are tired, it's because we're past the point of #BurnOut. I wasn't burned out when I stopped doing #activism--I was #traumatized. I had burned out and kept going until I physically could not and I'm still recovering.

#USPol #USPolitics #MovementBuilding

My gran had one of these.

The sewing machine was powered by a rocker pedal. Purely mechanical.

You could spin the entire thing round so the machine flipped below the table. Basically, you just had a table left.

Very clever engineering.

My memories are from the 1970s. The machine was almost certainly made in the 50s or 60s.

Singer built things to last.Which, sadly, contributed to their downfall as we entered the age of #disposability.

@jepyang @sewing @neckspike