Hundreds of thousands of civilizations have existed. We know about maybe .01 percent. The most powerful at their peak all thought they were eternal empires without end.
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Even if Harris/Walz wins, I have begun to reckon with the idea that my country as I’ve known her is dying, if not dead already. That America cannot overcome its original sin. That the center cannot hold.
With Trump/Vance now at the head of the venomous snake that is the white supremacist project, who is in opposition? I wish it could say it is the Democratic Party but to believe that the American system is founded on the basic inequalities outlined previously necessitates a different conversation than left vs. right.
Let’s unravel this racist/property bullshit, starting with the word “Aryan.” READ Part I and Part II. Now associated solely with the white supremacist project (i.e. the Aryan Brotherhood), the Proto-Indo-Iranian word was at its root an ethnic self-designation used by various peoples in Iran and India thousands of years ago, when…
“Property” is not a naturally-occurring phenomenon. Some human had to invent the notion. More importantly, others had to agree to it.
It’s racism and white supremacy. It’s misogyny and colonialism.
But really what it boils down to is property.
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice vs. Captain America: Civil War The battle of superhero battles is coming. After years of seeing superheroes fight their Rogues’ Galleries on screen, the advent of shared universes like the Marvel Cinematic Universe means we’re seeing more and more crossover between our most famous…
Whew, well that all happened fast. In the span of a week, one of America’s most famous newscasters was suspended without pay after mixing up his versions of reality, America’s most famous fake newscaster MORE trusted than any of America’s actual newscasters announced his abdication, and one of America’s preeminent…
It’s a telling trend in all media, but most often in film, to slap the word “American” as a adjective in a title, usually if they can’t think of anything better. Sometimes this is justified (there is, after all, la deceivingly-pleasant flower called the American Beauty in existence) and sometimes it’s…