“I do think that so much of the way we grieve is formed by capitalism and Eurocentric structures,” [Kara Jackson] says. Her best friend, Maya, died of cancer in 2016: “I just remember people being like: ‘You gotta get ready for college.’ I was so confused about why time didn’t just stop.”

This quote hit me hard. We're in a profound national-scale depression because of exactly fucking this. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/oct/02/kara-jackson-interview-folk-grief-capitalism-why-does-earth-give-us-people-love