Journal

The Journal of Dirk Johnson

These are excerpts from my daily journal as I write them, not from the past. Entries have been sanitized but not edited. And there are omissions. This only includes what I think might interest someone else on a given day. I’m withdrawing daily direct ruminative content from Facebook (I deleted Twitter when the fascist oligarch bought it) and placing it here in a more complete form. Billionaires aren’t welcome to my content for their revenue.

August 14, 2024

by Dirk Johnson | Aug 14, 2024 | Buddhism, Civil Rights, J.D. Vance, poetry, Poverty, writing

It seems that I’ve known all my life the difference between being broke and being poor. Being broke is a temporary condition. Being poor is a permanent mindset. J.D. Vance went broke as a youth and used it to pretend to understand what it’s like to be a poor white man. He was never poor, only broke. He grew up knowing the difference. And so did I.