It is in the small things we see it.
The child's first step,
as awesome as an earthquake.
The first time you rode a bike,
wallowing up the sidewalk.
The first spanking when your heart
went on a journey all alone.
When they called you crybaby
or poor or fatty or crazy
and made you into an alien,
you drank their acid
and concealed it. Later,
if you faced the death of bombs and bullets
you did not do it with a banner,
you did it with only a hat to
comver your heart.
You did not fondle the weakness inside you
though it was there.
Your courage was a small coal
that you kept swallowing.
If your buddy saved you
and died himself in so doing,
then his courage was not courage,
it was love; love as simple as shaving soap.
Later,
if you have endured a great despair,
then you did it alone,
getting a transfusion from the fire,
picking the scabs off your heart,
then wringing it out like a sock.
Next, my kinsman, you powdered your sorrow,
you gave it a back rub
and then you covered it with a blanket
and after it had slept a while
it woke to the wings of the roses
and was transformed.
Later,
when you face old age and its natural conclusion
your courage will still be shown in the
little ways,
each spring will be a sword you'll sharpen,
those you love will live in a fever of love,
and you'll bargain with the calendar
and at the last moment
when death opens the back door
you'll put on your carpet slippers
and stride out.
No laws should ever dictate emotion. Learning how to regulate one’s emotional outbursts is not the same thing as attempting to regulate another being’s emotions.
We are not livestock.
SEL is a form of socialist realism, a philosophy which views
the mere idea of individualism as “zoological.”
It is NOT merely an artistic aesthetic or style of literature. It is a philosophy and cornerstone of Stalinist and Maoist theology.
It’s premise is that morality is determined not from within but from the outside and not by wisdom but by the state - specifically by the Party.
It is said, by many, that in part the justification for Jew hate can be found in the writings and brilliance of people like Nietzsche. However this, just like every justification by intellectuals to pseudo intellectuals and their pawns is not only shallow, but false
What I find remarkable as of late is how many justifications often cite, adopt, even claim ideas and language and declarations that are uniquely part of jewish wisdom and spirit, preserved by my people for millennia or - bastardizations of non Jewish but thoughtful, wise, brilliant
and complex but without any hatred or even, what is worse than hate, contempt for my people (and therefore, since I am inseparably Jewish both in truth and according to those whose passion for my people likes only in my death or annihilation- I don’t only mean Hamas here) is also treated with
Ritual power is transformative. We tend to apply a positive to the word transformative…
Masking changes someone. The extent to which, if we keep attempting to understand purely rationally, is like trying to understand why touch, music, prayer, hearing laughter and so on can stir the human spirit.
The literalists may literally kill us all.
That’s fundamentally what my piece was about. Never flat out stated this before. It’s kinda a rule one shouldn’t. Right now - it’s a rule I think I had to break.
Masking changes human beings. Full stop. The why doesn’t exist anymore. The days never did matter. It’s truly heartbreaking.
See Merloo, Rape of the Mind.
@jeffreyatucker In other words - masking destroys and diminishes the human capacity for something you can never describe or prove with peer review or even the scientific method:
🧵The rebirth of SocRealism and the fall of the hope of Tamizdat.
I am beginning to keenly realize that this slow poisoning of the very things that ended the tyranny of the Soviet Union and it’s mission men and women around the world, began three quarters of a century ago and… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
THE PURPOSE OF THE CREATION
This is not the only happy turn of phrase by Stalin which the author of the Bible might envy. The specific teleology of Marxist thought consists in leading all concepts and objects to the Purpose, referring them all to the Purpose and defining them all… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
I just remembered how Russian artists couldn’t play music in NYC, and how the Russian Tea Room was boycotted, hell people lamented the name “st. Petersburg” in the state I’m in now….
People encouraged the bigotry of Russians in NYC as easily and with as much smug dedication
as they did the term “anti-vax.”
We keep having our president and nearly ever legacy media and new media say the danger is on the right or white supremacy or transphobia or or or…no.
The problem is how young people are encouraged to become bigot, racists, hell - they were… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
laugh at the thought of the unvaccinated dying.
What the fuck did they think would happen?
They knew.
It’s enough to make me think they don’t just want us to be killed, they want us killing each other.