I have loaded the vibe trebuchet and launched into the world a large number of bublasuars, Ivysaurs, and Venusaurs. The reason for this is not clear to me. Although I do have reasons for having done so...
Sometimes our artistic nature allows us to intuit what is coming prior to the even showing up. It is sometimes the case that there is something inside us, something deep, that only comes out by way of expression and art.
It is not always symbolic.
So the bulbasaurs are not symbolic of some ideas, they are something I felt the need to express, so I did. As odd as it sounds, like a sad person plays a song, or a happy person does a dance, I am contemplating the current social and political milieu so I tweeted bulbasaurs.
I have been tweeting less threads, with less regularity, because there has been a shift in the social and political milieu and I am still attempting to apprehend it. I have not nailed it down exactly, as the shift is subtle, but it is there and has been since the start of October
I don't mean to be cryptic, but there has been a change and I do not fully understand it yet. Woke ideology (AKA critical social justice) has not changed, it is still postmodern and it still uses critical theory, but something else has changed. There is a shift in the air...
As I reach to understand this shift I am taken by the stuffed bulbasaur I bought my son. for reasons I do not yet understand this resonates with me. I can't express exactly why. Something about it catches me on an artistic level....
It is a small monster and, in its early form is a caring, and loyal, It is also a grass pokemon. It has an organic motif......
But as it grows it become incredibly powerful, able to alter and manipulate it's environment. A magnificent warrior
I am not sure what this means, if anything. I do know that art can help up to realize, to see, and to understand.
The bulbasuars and there Aesthetic are coming out of something that, right now, resonates with me.
Right now, it is understanding that is needed. What is coming, what is already here that we don't see. I am trying to make sense of the shift, and tweet responsibly while I do that. The shift must be apprehended, then it can be understood and its underlying causes explained.
Since I have yet to fully make sense the shift is going on, I must be careful. Until then, what resonates with me is things like this:
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1/ The postmodernism of the Emergent Church is back. People like @kkdumez are leading the charge, and not being forthcoming about it. Ive done a thread on this before, it may be time for another thread soon.
But for now, look at the the Author @kkdumez is praising here:
2/ That author is Brian Mclaren, who was the most popular figure in the emergent church. He agreed with and spread postmodernism and postmodern thinkers and books. Here, he wrote the forward to a book called "What Would Jesus Deconstruct"
3/ If you doubt it's postmodernism:
Pic 1 is a description of "What Would Jesus Deconstruct", which says the book is postmodernism top to bottom.
Pic 2 is Brian Mclaren's book "Church on the other side: Ministry in the Postmodern Matrix," which is even more postmodernism.
Check out this linguistic sleight of hand:
Kendi interchanges "equal" and "equitable" in his tweet. By associating "equity" with "equality" (similar words, different meanings) and using "equality" to try and justify "equity" he creates the illusion people are against *equality*
This is postcolonial theory for southern white people. This is literally the exact logic that Franz Fanon uses in black skin white masks to explain the plight of African Americans after the end of slavery...
Replace the word *conquer* with the word *enslave* and this is something Franz Fanon could have written:
"On the cultural front, how much of that caving is due to being an *enslaved* people conditioned into accepting imposed guilt and living with the memory of the *enslaving*?"
The *reasoning* here is bad. The *reasoning* is the problem.
Arguing that society conditioned southerners to fold by invoking the memory of losing the civil war is pretty much arguing that the south suffers from "internalized oppression."
1/ The woke are trying to politicize the administration of the COVID-19 vaccine.
There is no other way to say this: if they succeed people *WILL* die.
A thread🧵
2/ According to both "The Lancet", a well respected scientific journal, and the Center for Evidence Based Medicine, the group most likely to die from COVID-19 is the elderly.
It isn't even close.
By every metric Seniors are the people who are most likely to die from COVID.
3/ This is not new information. The fact that COVID targets the elderly has been known since March.Anthony Fauci even said so in the New England Journal of Medicine.
So the medical community knows this. They know the people most likely to die from COVID are Seniors.
@RadioFreeTom@rkylesmith@ConceptualJames 1/
If you think my views are about social envy I suggest you read "The Critical Turn in Education" by Isaac Gottesman. He lays out, Approvingly, the way in which education theory has come to be dominated by a blend postmodernsim and critical theory. I think this is bad.
@RadioFreeTom@rkylesmith@ConceptualJames 2/
I also spent 8 years getting 2 degrees, so while social envy is a candidate for explaining my motives, I see my concern as grounded in things as the most cited scholar in education being Paulo Friere, who is cited more then Richard Dawkins and Charles Darwin combined:
@RadioFreeTom@rkylesmith@ConceptualJames 3/
If you want to see some of what Henry Giroux (120K Citations) has to say here he is arguing in "Border Crossings: Cultural Workers and the Politics of Education" that reason and objectivity are mere forms of social power. Again, I think this is very bad.
Imagine letting old people die because they're the wrong skin color and you want to rectify a historical injustice.
Now imagine being a doctor and actively advocating for that.
She suggests we should consider allocating healthcare resources using a *lottery.*
Allocating life saving resources using a lottery) is deeply irresponsible. The numbers clearly show the elderly are the most vulnerable, they should be vaccinated first after front-line workers.
Historical injustices are bad, but trying to rectify an inequality through a lottery is absurd. Resource allocation via lottery may mean healthy people in a vulnerable community may be vaccinated before elderly people in that same community. That makes things worse, not better.