Ooana Trien Profile picture
1 Apr, 5 tweets, 1 min read
It is the wound in Time. The century’s tides,
chanting their bitter psalms, cannot heal it.
Not the war to end all wars; death’s birthing place;
the earth nursing its ticking metal eggs, hatching
new carnage. But how could you know, brave
as belief as you boarded the boats, singing?
The end of God in the poisonous, shrapneled air.
Poetry gargling its own blood. We sense it was love
you gave your world for; the town squares silent,
awaiting their cenotaphs. What happened next?
War. And after that? War. And now? War. War.
History might as well be water, chastising this shore;
for we learn nothing from your endless sacrifice.
Your faces drowning in the pages of the sea.
The Wound in Time

Carol Ann Duffy

• • •

Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to force a refresh
 

Keep Current with Ooana Trien

Ooana Trien Profile picture

Stay in touch and get notified when new unrolls are available from this author!

Read all threads

This Thread may be Removed Anytime!

PDF

Twitter may remove this content at anytime! Save it as PDF for later use!

Try unrolling a thread yourself!

how to unroll video
  1. Follow @ThreadReaderApp to mention us!

  2. From a Twitter thread mention us with a keyword "unroll"
@threadreaderapp unroll

Practice here first or read more on our help page!

More from @ooana

1 Apr
Excerpt from:
My Lost City
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
1935
“What news from New York?”

“Stocks go up. A baby murdered a gangster.”

“Nothing more?”

“Nothing. Radios blare in the street.”
I once thought that there were no second acts in American lives, but there was certainly to be a second act to New York's boom days. We were somewhere in North Africa when we heard a dull distant crash which echoed to the further-est wastes of the desert.

“What was that?”
Read 18 tweets
1 Apr
“Within this tactic of silent warfare, aggressive states first try to install a “puppet leader” in the host state if the serving leader is not serving the interest of the established hegemony.
Then, if traditional ways of political diplomacy fail, the aggressive state fuels rebel and anti-state insurgent sentiments against the sitting government.
Read 9 tweets
1 Apr
“The effectiveness of 5GW depends on its disparity: it does not require any unity in its efforts and instead, the more a warfare is dispersed in its efforts, the more immune and effective it becomes. Wars of perception are 5GW, with information being the weapon,
due to increased technology of cyberspace, media, social media, the noticeability of these tactics of deception and propaganda backed by identity construction and misperception, and the power of shaping the will of the adversary.
Since the proliferation of information decides the ultimate victory of future wars, centricity is less effective than the absence of weak links.
Read 9 tweets
1 Apr
narco.news/5th-generation…

5GW is the battle of perceptions and information. In 5GW, violence is so discreetly dispersed that the victim is not even aware that it is a victim of war and the victim is not aware that it is losing the war.
The secrecy of this #warfare makes it the most dangerous warfare generation of all time. This warfare hides in the background, and “the most successful [#fifth generation] wars are wars that are never identified.”
5GW is also a cultural and moral war, which distorts the perception of the masses to give a manipulated view of the world and politics. By contrast, 4GW has mainly used asymmetric means, such as the use of nonstate actors. Lind’s portrayal of 4GW in moral and cultural territory
Read 6 tweets
26 Mar
I grew up on Fire Island. My family ran a local newspaper, begun by my father when he was 16 years old in 1956 until we sold it in 1996. Fire Island includes two primarily gay communities.
I would often go with my mother, who was executive editor from 1976-1996, when she would be covering a story or attending an event. I remember the AIDS crises through the eyes of a child.
I remember seeing men I looked up to adored carrying their lovers, to weak to walk, in their arms and the look of desperation and terror and love in their eyes.
Read 42 tweets
25 Mar
Governor Cuomo is responsible for the deaths of over 15k NYers. Nothing we could have done could have prevented that; not the closed businesses, closed doctor’s offices, missed funerals, missed opportunities to fall in love, shut down performances, closed museums, not even
the deliberate loss of the soul of our amazing city could have saved them. Do not let this be forgotten. These lives were people. They were treated like they were nothing. They were someones; someone’s mother, father, grandparent, sibling, child, friend.
New York hasn’t forgotten. He and the other governors who did this are criminals and our memory is long.
Read 4 tweets

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Support us! We are indie developers!


This site is made by just two indie developers on a laptop doing marketing, support and development! Read more about the story.

Become a Premium Member ($3/month or $30/year) and get exclusive features!

Become Premium

Too expensive? Make a small donation by buying us coffee ($5) or help with server cost ($10)

Donate via Paypal Become our Patreon

Thank you for your support!

Follow Us on Twitter!