Just to be clear, socialism is a fundamental restructuring of our economic model, not when a local politician does good things. New York City is still the belly of the financial beast that is turning the blood soaked gears of global capital.
“Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery. We look at the past through a glass that darkens as we move away from it, until the people we loved become ghosts, and the places we knew become legends.”
— Cormac McCarthy
After nearly being executed, Dostoevsky wrote,
“When I look back on my past and think how much time I wasted on nothing, how much time has been lost in futilities, errors, laziness, incapacity to live; how little I appreciated it, how many times I sinned against my heart and soul—then my heart bleeds. Life is a gift, life is happiness, every minute can be an eternity of happiness!”
ppl engage with aesthetic objects like they have a unique, privileged relationship with them as things to be consumed as 'theirs'. commodity-texts offer themselves up 'exclusively' to be annihilated into the vacuity of their existing views, no capacity for disinterested judgment
Someone really needs to write a book about how damaging the subcultures of 4chan and Tumblr were to American Politics. They corrupted young activists and provided armies to cynical political operatives w/ a knack for converting lonely, trauma bonded ppl into culture war recruits.