When Europeans first settled the Great Plains, so many of them developed mental issues that "Prairie Madness" was coined.
Severe isolation combined with the flattest land, lack of trees, and extremely bipolar weather literally broke many of them.
"El verdadero fascismo no lleva camisas negras, vende progreso.
La sociedad de consumo logró lo que el fascismo no pudo hacer: borrar culturas, uniformar vidas y destruir Italia sin que nadie se diera cuenta.
El fascismo no fue derrotado, fue reemplazado."
Pier Paolo Pasolini
This book BELOW written in 1990 by Swedish author Sven Lindqvist gives extraordinary insight into why and how genocides take place, including the current Gaza Genocide
The background to the Gaza Genocide is aggressive European colonialism for centuries and the two crucial facts that it was always justified by racism and was done with a shameless defence of extermination
What Israel is doing in Gaza is in the same moral category as the many genocides carried out by the European colonialists, including the genocides of Native Americans and Aboriginals
slightly off topic(?) but i wish people when they made OCs that are based in the 2000s would take inspo from photos actually from the 2000s and not fucking Pinterest cuz these outfits are so stylist and im sick of seeing another OC wearing nothing but Affliction inspired clothed
I guess it's just one of those historical "things" but it's so crazy to think about Faye Wong being a subject of Mao, alive for most of the Cultural Revolution in Beijing's coal mining district
No one asked, but I kinda wanna give a crash course on how to engage in better media literacy cause i keep seeing posts like this.
The best thing you can do to improve is simple: meet a story where it's at, ideally without preconceived notions. 🧵