Yeah, I would if anything about the protest seemed like it could make it more effective. You could stand to treat people better, and so could I. I’m in a bad fucking spot and I just really don’t need to be chided like this shit is even .0000000000001% my fault. It’s fucking not. I didn’t ask for this shit world/country.
Can’t change the past, but we can make the future together comrade. Because doing nothing is doing something. Sorry you’re having a hard time, I am too, recent Graves disease diagnoses basically has me out of work and stuck inside for the next year less I have a heart attack. Seeing that Nazi salute and everyone downplaying that has fueled a fire in me, which doesn’t help my heart. I refuse to back down though and be complacent, especially if it means dying. Feels good to believe in something you’re willing to die for though, beats being lost and used.
I wish you luck with your health. The mental anguish getting inflicted right now… I don’t know how we can move forward. I hope I can find a way to feel at all useful. Not seeing it, yet.
I recently read the book ‘Dawn of Everything’ which is a somewhat expose on some of the data about humans, human nature, and inequality discovered by anthropologists and archaeologists in the last 20 or so years thanks to modern technology, and while I’m weary of any “grand narratives” on human evolution like say ‘Guns, Germs, and Steel’, ‘Sapiens’, ‘The Next/Last 100 Years’ I find that the actual scientific evidence paints a much more optimistic view of humans and our politics without being shy about our wickedness. In short our so-called “development” isn’t linear at all, and the limits to our societies is simply our imaginations. Human beings are destined for freedom and communion, the more our technology breaks social barriers the closer we move towards a global village. The difference is I don’t think we’ve ever been closer to that, and that excites me. Consider this my thanks :)
The acting part is important. They’re all action and no theory, we’re all theory and no action. I mean they stormed the capitol for god’s sake. I want to start reading more on Fred Hampton, Angela Davis, Gil Scott Heron, back when the left still existed before being squashed by the police and FBI. Their torch needs to be carried now more than ever.
It’s reeeeaaaaally wordy, I recommend audiobook or read along with audiobook. It’s not complicated language or anything it’s just reeeeaaaally dense, i’d take breaks between pages to digest what I’ve read.
Yeah, I went audiobook. I’m out of practice with reading books in print and I get very sleepy when I try. If I do audiobooks I can be doing other mindless tasks and also absorbing the material. And I don’t mind rewinding if I miss something.
Thanks for bearing with me and turning the convo around. I really think people on the left, even if fairly different on the spectrum, really gotta stick together right now. Lemmy is often not of the same opinion in my experience.
Yeah, I would if anything about the protest seemed like it could make it more effective. You could stand to treat people better, and so could I. I’m in a bad fucking spot and I just really don’t need to be chided like this shit is even .0000000000001% my fault. It’s fucking not. I didn’t ask for this shit world/country.
Can’t change the past, but we can make the future together comrade. Because doing nothing is doing something. Sorry you’re having a hard time, I am too, recent Graves disease diagnoses basically has me out of work and stuck inside for the next year less I have a heart attack. Seeing that Nazi salute and everyone downplaying that has fueled a fire in me, which doesn’t help my heart. I refuse to back down though and be complacent, especially if it means dying. Feels good to believe in something you’re willing to die for though, beats being lost and used.
EDIT - I want to smile like this guy one day:
I wish you luck with your health. The mental anguish getting inflicted right now… I don’t know how we can move forward. I hope I can find a way to feel at all useful. Not seeing it, yet.
I recently read the book ‘Dawn of Everything’ which is a somewhat expose on some of the data about humans, human nature, and inequality discovered by anthropologists and archaeologists in the last 20 or so years thanks to modern technology, and while I’m weary of any “grand narratives” on human evolution like say ‘Guns, Germs, and Steel’, ‘Sapiens’, ‘The Next/Last 100 Years’ I find that the actual scientific evidence paints a much more optimistic view of humans and our politics without being shy about our wickedness. In short our so-called “development” isn’t linear at all, and the limits to our societies is simply our imaginations. Human beings are destined for freedom and communion, the more our technology breaks social barriers the closer we move towards a global village. The difference is I don’t think we’ve ever been closer to that, and that excites me. Consider this my thanks :)
Just to add, I think this is and always has been true. It was always what I found comforting. I used to be way more hopeful.
…It’s just a question of whose imaginations get acted upon.
The acting part is important. They’re all action and no theory, we’re all theory and no action. I mean they stormed the capitol for god’s sake. I want to start reading more on Fred Hampton, Angela Davis, Gil Scott Heron, back when the left still existed before being squashed by the police and FBI. Their torch needs to be carried now more than ever.
Thanks for that recc. I just found it on Libby. I hope it hits me like it did you.
It’s reeeeaaaaally wordy, I recommend audiobook or read along with audiobook. It’s not complicated language or anything it’s just reeeeaaaally dense, i’d take breaks between pages to digest what I’ve read.
Yeah, I went audiobook. I’m out of practice with reading books in print and I get very sleepy when I try. If I do audiobooks I can be doing other mindless tasks and also absorbing the material. And I don’t mind rewinding if I miss something.
We have a lot in common TrickDacy.
Thanks for bearing with me and turning the convo around. I really think people on the left, even if fairly different on the spectrum, really gotta stick together right now. Lemmy is often not of the same opinion in my experience.