"you could learn a lot from children. they believe in things in the dark, although we tell them it's not so. maybe we've been fooling them."
NIGHT OF THE DEMON (1957) dir. jacques tourneur
the way we're socialized to see violence only as interpersonal—not see state violence (policies that create poverty/kill), structural violence, institutional violence—is very deliberate. same w/ panics about ~shoplifting~ vs how much corporations steal from every single one of us
America is a dying empire in full collapse and the only positive way forward is socialism. Every sector, from education, infrastructure, housing, wages, health care etc is all in collapse. As a student of History, I know exactly what’s coming next if we don’t make a hard pivot.
the thing about the CA slavery prop was that it wasn’t even confusing. the language was clear. y’all just hate incarcerated people and think they’re not human.