i hope one day to live in a society capable of making collective, conscious decisions for certain technological pathways and against others, rather than one that confusedly insists that market-mediated pathways are both inevitable but somehow also absolutely open & indeterminate
None of us are supposed to be living like this, dying like this, living amidst so much dying like this. We need to build a world that would stop turning if a child’s head were blown off until we could ensure it would never happen again, not a world that feeds on children’s blood.
Ok this is pretty cool. I just found out I'm the only guy for whom reading is not performative but rather an authentic expression of an appealingly inclusive and non-reactionary cosmopolitan masculinity.
Massacres, endlessly. There’s nothing left to say. Everyone is complicit. This world needs to be torn down. Even accountability wouldn't be able to heal what’s been done to us, right in front of everyone’s eyes.
Everyone with half a brain said at the outset of this sequence that there is no military solution to the kind of violence that comes from the desperation of the dispossessed, that only political solutions can end the bloodshed. We were ignored by the rabid merchants of death
This is what it is. Partitioned people will continue to kill each other with weapons purchased from their colonisers, to defend borders imposed on them by those very same entities.