Against The Day | Defector
You might say that the Spaniard yelling about toast wasn’t lying, but composing, composing a literature of the trenches, transcending propaganda to make art. And I wonder if what he said was this: That the anarchists were more humane than the Fascists because they recognized that beneath the abstractions of political rhetoric are desires that are c
... See moreRebecca Solnit • Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
The writer Jack Self summed it up much better than I can: “living through collapse isn’t a factual statement, but an emotional one. It feels like we are approaching the end of a specific social contract. Modernity is a project founded on patriarchal domination, on linear time, infinite extraction and unstoppable accumulation. In its five centuries,... See more
Rosie Spinks • How I became 'collapse aware'
Hopelessness is not a reflection of reality. It’s a strategy of control. The way fascism wins isn’t just through force—it’s through fatigue. It doesn’t just take your freedom. It convinces you that freedom was never possible to begin with.
Lexi Santa Mariasubstack.comAs experience has shown, the world – life itself – is cloudy, contingent and defined by change. As horrifying as the surveillance capitalists’ view of a totally controlled, perfectly articulated and error-free future might be, the inevitable failure of its vision, and the resultant violence – already evident in our fractured worldviews, competing f
... See moreJames Bridle • The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff Review – We Are the Pawns
Daily life will take on a surreal quality and, if we do not take some action or join an organized resistance, our discussions will consist of merely repeating the latest horror.
Sebastian Haffner, writing in 1939, noted that “life [in Nazi Germany] went on as before, though it had now become ghostly and unreal, and was daily mocked by the events tha... See more
Sebastian Haffner, writing in 1939, noted that “life [in Nazi Germany] went on as before, though it had now become ghostly and unreal, and was daily mocked by the events tha... See more