fast food, fast fashion, songs being sped up, tv show seasons being only 8 episodes long, replacing youtube vlogs with fifteen second "day in the life" tiktoks, people in their 20s complaining about being too old...everything is so rushed, we have lost the art of lingering.
Please get back to doing puzzles, sudoku, board games, crosswords, word search. Read long novels and watch long form videos.
Seeing my students and even my age-mates uncomfortable being cognitively unentertained is... something. We’re losing patience with thinking deeply.
do not let apathy be the norm. mourn the lives of strangers you have never met. love the children across the globe, who's names you never knew. fascism thrives on dehumanization. do not give it a space to grow.
Germany, France, and UK when US was discussing invading Greenland: 😡
Germany, France, and UK when US invades Iran: 😍
nothing unites colonizers like killing people in the global south