mastodon 4.7.3Well spoken sporadic spragger
Erstwhile twitter: @anilmc@hachyderm.io
"until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned...the dream of lasting peace and world citizenship and the rule of international morality will remain but a fleeting illusion, to be pursued but never attained"
not really remembered so well today except by rastas and reggae fans but clear as day from where we now sit
War/No More Trouble
Bob Marley
Live 1977
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzfetO-RACg
Shit's pretty Biblical, and definitely beyond the comprehension and control of any of us alone. I will be doing some kind of #prayerful #vigil to hope there's #nonukes tonight if anyone is doing the same or would like to join. I, at least, will not be immanentizing the eschaton tonight.
macrocosm of the kid with all the toys acting egotistically and everyone else would rather play with some old rope than be made to feel less than. And none of them come to his birthday party despite the indoor swimming pool.*
prima facie demonstration of the limits of coercive/kinetic (power over) force versus energetic/productive force (power to) - and for that matter reproductive force (power with).
This is like political science theory and collective psychology 101 classes with a live action case study for the whole world. I don't care how much they say the tiktok makes the kids stupid, this will transform political literacy for a generation.
*I ain't tryna trivialise of barbarism or atrocity, but to highlight the relational dynamics at play, thankee