the ancient and noble art of Hating must remain distinct from the dogmatism of the moral crusade. hating has no greater goal. it is not about engineering change or imposing one’s will upon others. to hate is a complete act in and of itself
like a fool i have always forgiven the dc metro system every time it fucks me over because the stupid sexy 70s brutalist aesthetic is just too swag i am sorry
except you. you are a testament to american hubris and were never supposed to exist
I am so sorry to do this to you but I actually have to talk about it because it is a very specific and weird story. So pictured here is the longest escalator in the western hemisphere and it’s specifically western hemisphere because at the time of construction it was the cold war and usa government was in a dumb competition with ussr government to see who could build the longest fucking metro escalator which would prove….something, i guess. usa lost and the 3 longest escalators in the world are in St. Petersburg. so this and the st. petersburg one are all actually in fact freaky long escalators
The fact that Judaism is trending because of both the wave of bomb threats on synagogues and Bradley Cooper’s Antisemitism Adventure (his huge fake prosthetic nose, and him basically stealing the story from a Jewish man) is so infuriating and so exhaustingly typical.
The fact that I see Judaism trending on Tumblr and immediately think “oh no. Something Bad is happening to us.” We’re never trending cause it’s fucking good. I never get to be excited, it’s just cold dread.
The fact that Antisemitism is getting worse everyday and the only ones who ever talk about it are other Jews. The fact that no one else fucking cares. The only ones who support us are other Jews. Even when gentiles talk about Nazis or white supremacists they don’t want to help us. We’re just their prop, the canary in the coal mine and the perfect victim.
The fact that everyone’s uncomfortable with Jews still being here. Reminding them of things they’d rather forget.
The fact that it’d be easier for them if we were all dead. Then they could tell stories about our people, dressed in offensive caricatures, without us making a fuss.
dear god please let our new baby octopus feel confident enough to move out of her corner hiding spot today while i’m on exhibits so i can see her properly for the first time amen
she stuck out a single arm before changing her mind and deciding the rest of the tank is too scary, far too scary by far she is scared
I was trying to write an address to Mao’s “revolution isn’t a dinner party” vs. stirner’s egoist union being akin to “some children have come together [..] in a friendly game” but it involves reading Mao and it would fall on deaf ears anyway.
“There are three alternatives. To march at their head and lead them? To trail behind them, gesticulating and criticizing? Or to stand in their way and oppose them?”
–Mao Tse-tung,“Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan” (1927)
“So our role, the role of us anarchists who regard ourselves as the most advanced, most daring and most liberated fraction of that proletariat, constantly marching at its side, is to fight the same battles, mingling with it.”
–Amédée Dunois, International Anarchist Congress of Amsterdam (1907)
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But simply look at the chasm between these two mentalities.
Mao can’t help but in politician fashion, résolve this politician-problem in typical politician-fashion; by choosing to lead it. Despite not having been there from the beginning. To co-op it.
Whereas it’s not even a question for Dunois, to march at its side. You can appreciate the synchronicity with the apocryphal quote, “Don’t walk in front of me — I may not follow; don’t walk behind — I may not lead; walk beside me and just be my friend” and when Stirner quotes Faust“in the midst of such a union [..] he cries: ‘Here I am human, here I can be human.’”
“ … organizations are structured in a horizontal … manner such that there are no divisions between rulers who makes decisions and subordinates who do as instructed and lack decision-making power. In horizonal organizations, each member has an equal say in collective decisions and so codetermines the organization with every other member. According to Malatesta, this kind of equality emerges from the fact that individuals within a group have three choices. Either they ‘submit to the will of others (be enslaved) or subject others to his will (be in authority) or love with others in fraternal agreement in the interests of the greatest good of all (be an associate).’ Anarchists choose to be associates.” –Zoe Baker, “Means and Ends: The Revolutionary Practice of Anarchism in Europe and The United States” (2023)
