Russ
@esprusso
A creator on the inside.
Russ
bsky.app
Protect your time. Feed your inner life. Avoid too much noise. Read good books, have good sentences in your ears. Be by yourself as often as you can. Walk. Take the phone off the hook. Work regular hours.
Dani Shapiro • Still Writing
There are no wrong turns, just different paths.
When the men with guns who have always claimed to be against the system start wearing uniforms and marching with torches and pictures of a leader, the end is nigh. When the pro-leader paramilitary and the official police and military intermingle, the end has come.
Timothy Snyder • On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Avoid pronouncing the phrases everyone else does. Think up your own way of speaking, even if only to convey that thing you think everyone is saying. Make an effort to separate yourself from the internet. Read books.
Timothy Snyder • On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
The hero of a David Lodge novel says that you don’t know, when you make love for the last time, that you are making love for the last time. Voting is like that.
Timothy Snyder • On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
The symbols of today enable the reality of tomorrow. Notice the swastikas and the other signs of hate. Do not look away, and do not get used to them. Remove them yourself and set an example for others to do so.
Timothy Snyder • On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
The mistake is to assume that rulers who came to power through institutions cannot change or destroy those very institutions—even when that is exactly what they have announced that they will do.
Timothy Snyder • On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Sometimes institutions are deprived of vitality and function, turned into a simulacrum of what they once were, so that they gird the new order rather than resisting it. This is what the Nazis called Gleichschaltung.
Timothy Snyder • On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Capitalism, for Marx, is a world in which the worker is dominated by the products of his labor, which have taken on the shape of an alien being, capital.