We will not be completely liberated in our lives. Our leaders will all be martyrs. But that’s okay. It isn’t about us. It’s about history, and the future that did not consent to be oppressed. We do it for them.
@becomingidea A few days ago at an event I said sth like “the voice of the spirit of history remains silent so that we ourselves will have that space in which we can speak” kinda feel like there’s some parallel or promising psychoanalytic imagery there but idk
@becomingidea Today I was talking to someone about how Mao said that we should have parties when people die to celebrate the victory of dialectics, and then I realized… to die for the party is weightier than Mount Tai
@becomingidea The first two weeks are gonna suck, but if you’ve tried before then you should know what it’s gonna feel like. Expecting the discomfort reduces its impact in my experience. Imagine yourself as a bodhisattva, suffering for the sake of the goodness in its overcoming.
@becomingidea We, as a society, need to start leaving notes for our loved ones explaining why we, as individuals, persist through life’s violence and hardship by the joy their love brings, and thus will not be killing ourselves. On the desk at 3 am, cite our sources.
@becomingidea I don’t think accepting normative moral claims from… anyone is a good idea. Like, the whole anarchist thing abt “why listen to dead guys” actually works for this. Figure out your metaethics and draw your own conclusions