This is basically what philosophers and anthropologists mean when they say that the 'individual' is a relatively modern construct, and that many other cultures conceive of people in a more porous, contingent, interwoven fashion. Weird as it sounds, it's just observably true.
🚨A 45-year-old man is occupying the top of Washington’s Frederick Douglas Memorial Bridge to protest the war in Iran‼️
Not on a single western news outlet covering this‼️
It’s obvious why “they’re” not publicizing this. Remember his name. Guido Reichstadtler. His statement:
“The most they can do is kill you and then they have your dead body… they dont have your obedience…” “we have an urgent moral responsibility to resist, nonviolently.”
I don’t give a FUCK about anyone’s opinion on immigration at this point. THIS IS INHUMANE. THIS IS WRONG. PERIOD. THERE IS NOTHING ANYONE CAN SAY TO JUSTIFY THIS TREATMENT. THESE ARE HUMAN BEINGS. THEIR LIVES MATTER. Fuck ANYONE who supports this.
Curiosity has taken humans to faraway places (the bottom of the ocean, deep into the stars, to the surface of the moon). But one mustn’t travel far to find sacred places to explore (the crook of someone’s neck, the hidden corners of their heart, the inner depths of their soul)
i can’t get over seeing a braid in space … the simplicity & humanity of it … i could cry … we started in caves and now we’re all the way up there
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It’s kind of insane that we’re all lucky enough to live on this insignificant blue ball floating in an endless void that can somehow keep us alive indefinitely and yet a huge chunk of people want to ruin it forever in the name of an economic concept that we made up ourselves