More brutal than the Arab slave castration system? Or the virginia slave penal code? Or the German death marches in Namibia? Or the holocaust? Or the holodomor? Or the slave camps for Germans, cossacks and Koreans in Russia? Or the Indian caste system? Or the Aztec human sacrifice raids? Or the Bantu enslavement of the Khoi? Or the Atlantic slave trade? Or the Muslim conquests? Or the Qing dynasty caste system? Or the Japanese occupations? Or the Indonesian occupation of east Timor? Or the government in Kashmir? Or the ethnic cleansing of the Germans from neighboring countries after ww2? Or the Boer war concentration camps? Or the Spanish silver mines? Or the killing of cham, viet and Chinese in Cambodia? Or the Sudanese in Darfur? Or the Biafrans? Or the hutu power movement? Or ISIS? Or Christians under Muslim republics? Or the bothlanka system of sotho slavery? Or the Congo slaving empire?
This is Erwin Schrödinger.
Most remember him for his cat. That's the least interesting thing he did.
In 1944, he crossed from physics into biology — and ended with a view of consciousness modern science still ignores.
What he found changes what you think you are: 🧵
33 people are shot dead in South Africa every day. This week, the UN handed that country the gavel at its Arms Trade Treaty conference.
South Africa passed some of the strictest gun laws on earth. Citizens surrendered their guns under threat of prison. Then police tasked with destroying those guns sold them to street gangs.
More than 1,000 murders have been traced to those firearms, including hundreds of children.
The state took their guns and armed their killers.
And South Africa isn’t the cautionary tale at this conference. It’s presiding over it.
So I flew to Geneva and said it to their faces.
Full speech below.