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[shane @UtterlyinShane]

@RuhRohRaggu bruh that’s awesome

[Richard Rohr @RichardRohrOFM]

My dog Opie and I will be heading to bed nice and early tonight, perhaps staying up a little late to watch a nature show, but I wish all of you a Happy New Year’s Eve. https://t.co/VWhLvdcDS8

[shane @UtterlyinShane]

Quote from D.T. Suzuki in his Introduction to Zen Buddhism. He's talking about our own interference in personal growth, but I thought it was relevant to the conversation about colonialism and progress. As a practice, we should monitor our meddlesome minds in all areas of life.

[shane @UtterlyinShane]

"[Human] interference is sometimes helpful, sometimes decidedly not. As a rule it works two ways. We welcome human interference when more is to be gained than lost and call it improvement and progress; but when it turns out otherwise we call it retrogression." #PoCo19

[shane @UtterlyinShane]

@Kahlmehannah Thanks for the link, this is awesome!! Poetry is meant to be heard aloud. #PoCo19

[shane @UtterlyinShane]

In a class that often shows the harsh realities of human nature, I'm often surprised at the classes' resilience towards the lurking colossus machine that is Colonialism (and every other -ism). Your work does not go unnoticed. #PoCo19

[shane @UtterlyinShane]

The idea of capitalism as a grid system has been a great weight on my mind lately. How often does our need ot compartmentalize further impede on human nature and human potential? #PoCo19

[shane @UtterlyinShane]

@jawicks75 One of the most relevant arguments of this article is that one cannot assume that countries would not "develop" without the interference of Western forces. And at what cost do these developments come? Historically, it has cost slavery, genocide, and destruction. #PoCo19

[shane @UtterlyinShane]

@IsabellaDempse2 The play was so powerful! It created a profound parallel to our attitudes in modern politics I think we could learn from.

[shane @UtterlyinShane]

Cardenal writes about the similarities in quantum physics and love. Both have no certainties and end up together in the universe's entropy. It's funny to think one day colonized and colonizer will end up the same way. #PoCo19

[shane @UtterlyinShane]

"True contemplation is resistance," (158). I found this to be mind opening. Where the U.S. sees salvation or escape in Zen, Latin America sees salvation or escape in resistance. It speaks volumes on the differences in our political climates. #PoCo19

[shane @UtterlyinShane]

@Totorolover911 Reminds me of why we do all of this. We revolt and fight the system so that we may freely love and live. #PoCo19

[shane @UtterlyinShane]

@jasmin_segarra Immediately after, a man in a business suit calmly explains why the guerillas are evil and need to be turned in to the government. #PoCo19

[Isabella Dempsey @IsabellaDempse2]

me after spiraling in poco everyday #PoCo19

[shane @UtterlyinShane]

@TFranklinFic @MattTanner4 I really liked that, despite Xuela's counter-cutltural attitudes, she ends up acknowledging people's humanity and does not know how to reconcile human relationships with the pain they cause. It felt very realistic.

[shane @UtterlyinShane]

@GracieR54910845 Dang, that's powerful!! I think the idea of disarming security is an interesting thought both in foreign relations but also in our individual relationships. Do we treat others with "masculine" distance and aggression?

[shane @UtterlyinShane]

Lacanian analysis intrigues me. I find truth in the idea that language, categorization, organization, distort our reality and place human barriers on what is and is not. The idea is terrifying but also liberating. #PoCo19

[shane @UtterlyinShane]

Pluriverse presents literature that seems to be a political action rather than a political reaction. Though there may be fictitious elements in the work, there is artistic honesty about the conditions of a revolutionary. #PoCo19

[shane @UtterlyinShane]

@sammimrowka Signed