“I, Khodayar Amini, write the following few sentences with my blood .. Yes they did this to me, with slogans of humanity, sentenced me to death. 18/10/15
Apr 26, 2020 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
Okay, so it's no longer ANZAC day I can say this.
Why do we as a nation put so much emphasis on this day, yet at its centre this event is so devoid of meaning? We call it special but at the centre of this attention is a semantic vacuum.
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All we can come up with is vague generalities like "remembering those who have fallen" but the remembering is so severely limited it is more like a determined forgetting.
We never "remember" why Australians went 15,000 km to try and blow some Turkish soldier's brains out.
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Jan 19, 2020 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Yesterday I lived through an "extreme weather event". Those words fail to convey the violence of what happened. A storm cell with apocalyptic hail hit Warrandyte and many other places. These events are in the news daily and are now starting to become commonplace.
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#auspol
Formerly the weather was a short segment that came at the end of the news. Now it is the news, and the deeds and decisions of humans gets scant attention. This is because of the changes we have made to the planet and to its systems; because of climate change.
