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White people love black art until it forces them to see or engage black pain beyond caricatures and stereotypes. To avoid confronting black pain, white audiences turn to white artists who appropriate black art without substance.
thecrimson.com • DAMN. And the Consumption of Black Art
But it’s like boobs are Velcro. You can practically hear the ripping sound when a guy finally looks up.
Bev Potter • Why Can’t Men Stop Staring At Our Boobs?
“What does it mean to think of revolution not as destroying capitalism, but as ceasing to create capitalism?”
Stop making Capitalism – John Holloway
https://johnholloway.com.mx/2011/07/30/stop-making-capitalism/
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Stop making Capitalism – John Holloway
https://johnholloway.com.mx/2011/07/30/stop-making-capitalism/
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This whole piece is just ::chef's kiss::
Only silence enables us to say something unheard of. The compulsion of communication, by contrast, leads to the reproduction of the same, to conformism:
So it’s not a problem of getting people to express themselves but of providing little gaps of solitude and silence in which they might eventually find something to say. Repressive forces don’t stop
Byung-Chal Han • Vita Contemplativa
"When everything is readily available and consumable, contemplative attention is impossible." (Byung-Chal Han, Vita Contemplativa)
Good writing is specific and concrete.
William Zinsser • Writing to Learn
"Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an
exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires."
--John Steinbeck
exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires."
--John Steinbeck
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