And this! #DigitalGardens: “alternatives to social media, where people are collectively tending to each other, like we would a garden. Gardens are also places where communities can meet each other and work through problems together.” 💚💐⭐️
“There’s so much pressure on individuals to protect themselves, or their communities from being surveilled. But at the end of the day, large corporations & police depts are responsible for these issues, and yet I am the one tasked with doing the work to make things better.”
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The emergence of the shadow in mid-life…so poignantly articulated 👇🏾
“Jung calls the realizations of the Shadow an “eminently practical problem.” This growing awareness of the inferior part of the personality cannot be twisted into an intellectual activity.”
Whew!
“The first half of life is, as it were, for the growth and differentiation of the Shadow. The whole second half of life is for the greater and greater integration of the Shadow.”
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“...Kenya’s variety of Jim Crow, which made many U.S. nationals feel at home. This apartheid-like system had been in place for some time and was virtually coterminous with the beginning of European colonialism...”
“... as the British Empire began its terminal decline, Washington also began to exert similar influence on London’s colo- nial outposts—Kenya, not least.”
“This pressure was accepted grudgingly—at best—by the European colonialists in Nairobi, just as it energized Africans and African Americans who, not for the first or last time, found their interests yoked. “
New #digitalrights language needed; stating mass surveillance isn’t the answer/a human rights violation unlikely to win allies in governments or among the citizenry at this time...
For what’s the response to, “what are the alternatives?”