@bbonjourkitty and puritanism can be seen as economizing on personality — seeking lack of self instead of abundance. i also think it’s related to self hatred, which is caused not only by socioeconomic problems but also by social media / the internet
it’s unbelievable how a certain large, authoritarian country continues to bully a small, tropical island which was never its territory. im talking of course about puerto rico
@stendhalist it was no doubt the most important social movement of the last decade, and the fact that it was briefly lived speaks not to its inherent weakness but to the enormous difficulty of building mass movements in a brutal police state
@bf_crane@TauPower we have all moved to meadow ridge already, it’s inside us and a part of us, we flinch when someone points to the meadow ridge because we want to forget it’s there
@imissblackmidi i thought this was referring to ridgewood new jersey but the two are probably equidistant from new york city so culturally it’s the same vibe
This is the third time Trump has said that grass has “life like humans.” He is close to embracing the truth of 無情佛性 (wúqíng fóxìng), the Buddha-like nature of all things, and rejecting the false binary of sentience/insentience.
@nytimes what’s hilarious abt this article is that it implies one of zhu’s biggest failures (the deadly “but”) was allowing china to dominate global trade…. which “ha[s] led to trade wars”…. as if the US didnt start the trade wars. as if the west were ever fair about sharing resources