We don't defeat #fascism, we outbuild it.
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We don't defeat #fascism, we outbuild it.
We don't build worlds of beauty by destroying what is ugly. We build worlds of beauty by *building*.
Today's post is a big one:
https://www.revoluciana.net/mussolini-in-borderland/ -
We don't defeat #fascism, we outbuild it.
We don't build worlds of beauty by destroying what is ugly. We build worlds of beauty by *building*.
Today's post is a big one:
https://www.revoluciana.net/mussolini-in-borderland/"Death and beauty
Do you know how Mussolini died? He was shot. His body was hanged upside down at a gas station for people to throw rocks and spit on his corpse. Something about this image sticks with me... I don't delight in death or violence. At least, I think I don't. Although, I've been rewatching all of *Alice in Borderland* lately."
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"Death and beauty
Do you know how Mussolini died? He was shot. His body was hanged upside down at a gas station for people to throw rocks and spit on his corpse. Something about this image sticks with me... I don't delight in death or violence. At least, I think I don't. Although, I've been rewatching all of *Alice in Borderland* lately."
"There's something beautiful about this image to me [of dead Mussolini hanging upside down at a gas station], and it bothers me that I find beauty in it, and it also bothers me that it bothers me, and so on."
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"There's something beautiful about this image to me [of dead Mussolini hanging upside down at a gas station], and it bothers me that I find beauty in it, and it also bothers me that it bothers me, and so on."
"When I watch Alice in Borderland, I don't think it's the death and violence, but the puzzles and the way that the protagonists overcome the challenges in front of them despite the overall crushing weight of despair that I enjoy. And I also have a baffling crush on Chishiya."
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"When I watch Alice in Borderland, I don't think it's the death and violence, but the puzzles and the way that the protagonists overcome the challenges in front of them despite the overall crushing weight of despair that I enjoy. And I also have a baffling crush on Chishiya."
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"There's something about this image of Mussolini [dead and hanging upside down at a gas station] that is so *normal*? No, of course not. We couldn't possibly normalize death to #fascist dictators in this manner, could we? Perhaps mundane? Or unceremonious?"
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"Efficiency. Fascists love efficiency. What is so grand about being efficient when what you are efficient at is creating harm and destruction? A blaze is efficient at destroying the forest."
(excerpt) #antifa
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"Efficiency. Fascists love efficiency. What is so grand about being efficient when what you are efficient at is creating harm and destruction? A blaze is efficient at destroying the forest."
(excerpt) #antifa
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"Efficiency. Fascists love efficiency. What is so grand about being efficient when what you are efficient at is creating harm and destruction? A blaze is efficient at destroying the forest."
(excerpt) #antifa
"I've always been a fan of science fiction and #fantasy. If you've consumed much of it, one thing becomes very clear. Most of these stories are dystopian. Every story needs conflict, but there is something different about #scifi and fantasy in this regard– not out of necessity, but out of habit, perhaps.
There always seems to be a dark lord or an intergalactic empire and the hero needs to set things right. The chosen one. Someone's destiny. Someone with the right gender and skin color, naturally. Even #Tolkien demonizes an entire race of beings for their existence and makes another supreme and pure above all. Gross."
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"I've always been a fan of science fiction and #fantasy. If you've consumed much of it, one thing becomes very clear. Most of these stories are dystopian. Every story needs conflict, but there is something different about #scifi and fantasy in this regard– not out of necessity, but out of habit, perhaps.
There always seems to be a dark lord or an intergalactic empire and the hero needs to set things right. The chosen one. Someone's destiny. Someone with the right gender and skin color, naturally. Even #Tolkien demonizes an entire race of beings for their existence and makes another supreme and pure above all. Gross."
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"We often cling to stories like these, looking for our saviors among those who were born with the supreme amount of midi-chlorians that enable them to bullseye womp rats in their T-16s, not much bigger than 2 meters.
When we do this, we fall into the same #fascist trap of supremacies and hierarchies that we are attempting to escape."
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"We often cling to stories like these, looking for our saviors among those who were born with the supreme amount of midi-chlorians that enable them to bullseye womp rats in their T-16s, not much bigger than 2 meters.
When we do this, we fall into the same #fascist trap of supremacies and hierarchies that we are attempting to escape."
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"[#Tolkien] believed in the myth of the good king. It's a lie we tell ourselves again and again through our stories and our religions. If only we could have voted in the other candidate, at least people like me wouldn't have it so bad (even if the suffering of more marginalized would carry on). At least the other candidate would have saved people *like me*.
We are trapped in the cycle, never seeking to build the worlds we wish to inhabit, only to perpetuate our shackled existence so that we get the comfortable prisons."
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"[#Tolkien] believed in the myth of the good king. It's a lie we tell ourselves again and again through our stories and our religions. If only we could have voted in the other candidate, at least people like me wouldn't have it so bad (even if the suffering of more marginalized would carry on). At least the other candidate would have saved people *like me*.
We are trapped in the cycle, never seeking to build the worlds we wish to inhabit, only to perpetuate our shackled existence so that we get the comfortable prisons."
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"We want to believe. It's easier. Either we can abrogate our own responsibilities to the chosen ones, or we can believe we ourselves are the elite heroes of the stories, endowed with the supremacy to destroy evil."
(excerpt) #antifa
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"We want to believe. It's easier. Either we can abrogate our own responsibilities to the chosen ones, or we can believe we ourselves are the elite heroes of the stories, endowed with the supremacy to destroy evil."
(excerpt) #antifa
"There is no hero and there is no king. We must collectively do the work. *We make us safe*, a refrain you must have heard by now. If not, take yourself to a protest if you can. It's time you got out on the streets. A cherished late mentor of mine used to say that everyone should get gassed and maced at least once in their lives. Thanks, Doc."
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"There is no hero and there is no king. We must collectively do the work. *We make us safe*, a refrain you must have heard by now. If not, take yourself to a protest if you can. It's time you got out on the streets. A cherished late mentor of mine used to say that everyone should get gassed and maced at least once in their lives. Thanks, Doc."
"When you listen to #music on your streaming service, do you remember that there was a time before CDs or records, a time when recorded #audio didn't exist, a time when the only way to hear a song was from the vocal chords of a human person in your presence or the vibration of instruments being played? A time when it was much more common for most people to sing in the presence of others because music was a communal experience, something to be done with family and friends and strangers, and not a solitary one wherein we put on our headphones and isolate ourselves from each other? A time in which songs were not polished for the sake of #capitalist profit, but were shared for the sake of human interaction and for the tandem vibration of our beings, so that we might vibrate in harmony with those around us?"
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"When you listen to #music on your streaming service, do you remember that there was a time before CDs or records, a time when recorded #audio didn't exist, a time when the only way to hear a song was from the vocal chords of a human person in your presence or the vibration of instruments being played? A time when it was much more common for most people to sing in the presence of others because music was a communal experience, something to be done with family and friends and strangers, and not a solitary one wherein we put on our headphones and isolate ourselves from each other? A time in which songs were not polished for the sake of #capitalist profit, but were shared for the sake of human interaction and for the tandem vibration of our beings, so that we might vibrate in harmony with those around us?"
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"In my mind, Mussolini is still hanging there, upside down. A petrol station. It's so surreal."
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"In my mind, Mussolini is still hanging there, upside down. A petrol station. It's so surreal."
"I'm always wondering why people make the choices they do. It's all we have, our choices and our actions. There are no ends, only means."
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"I'm always wondering why people make the choices they do. It's all we have, our choices and our actions. There are no ends, only means."
"We allow our oppressors to filter our words to others and to filter the words that reach us. I think about how in the Mistborn series by Brandon Sanderson (spoiler), even a person's thoughts could be exposed to the oppressor, and the utterance of speech and the written word could be obfuscated or changed so that a person could not receive the message unless it was written on steel, where it couldn't be seen or changed by the oppressor.
I think about the words we share through our phones, and through these filters. I think then about human contact and connection, and I think about paper #zines in #radical bookstores."
(excerpt) #antifa
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"We allow our oppressors to filter our words to others and to filter the words that reach us. I think about how in the Mistborn series by Brandon Sanderson (spoiler), even a person's thoughts could be exposed to the oppressor, and the utterance of speech and the written word could be obfuscated or changed so that a person could not receive the message unless it was written on steel, where it couldn't be seen or changed by the oppressor.
I think about the words we share through our phones, and through these filters. I think then about human contact and connection, and I think about paper #zines in #radical bookstores."
(excerpt) #antifa
"I'm saying that you're trapped. We all are.
But I'm also saying that there is an escape, and this escape is not going to present itself for us. We have to find it, we have to create it, and we have to create it together."
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"I'm saying that you're trapped. We all are.
But I'm also saying that there is an escape, and this escape is not going to present itself for us. We have to find it, we have to create it, and we have to create it together."
"I enjoy these dystopian adventures as much as the next person, but we are saturated. We don't even need more stories of hope. The #dystopian stories sell us enough false hope. We don't need more supremacy."
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We don't defeat #fascism, we outbuild it.
We don't build worlds of beauty by destroying what is ugly. We build worlds of beauty by *building*.
Today's post is a big one:
https://www.revoluciana.net/mussolini-in-borderland/@revoluciana fascists can only destroy
we can create
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"I enjoy these dystopian adventures as much as the next person, but we are saturated. We don't even need more stories of hope. The #dystopian stories sell us enough false hope. We don't need more supremacy."
