speaking the truth, government menace, christopher columbus, fiction vs truth,
today i am grateful for the things i got done...
tomorrow i am looking forward to finally getting my new shoes all the way from australia!...
This now, following their example, is all we can do: speak the truth, take care of each other, and live in such a way that defies the cruelty of authoritarians everywhere.
From government officials menacing late-night comedians to masked thugs landing helicopters on apartment buildings, from Democratic officials threatened with jail time by the president to the brazen flouting of the rule of law, Americaās decades-long drift into authoritarianism has sped up dramatically in the last nine months. We are in the middle of an anti-democratic sea-change, and as each week passes the likes of Stephen Miller grow bolder in flouting their fascist inclinations.
Literary Hub Ā» On the Mysteries, Real and Imagined, Surrounding Christopher Columbus
Millions of peopleābillions, even, on multiple continentsāhave learned and remembered his name. Most have some sense of what he did, that it was momentous, a great achievement, an act of primacy. But was his achievement āgreatā because he ādiscovered Americaā and thus made possible the hemisphereās āgreatā nations? Or was it an apocalyptic catastrophe for tens of millions of Indigenous and African peoples because he initiated centuries of enslavement, population collapse, and colonialist exploitation? Or should Columbus neither be blamed nor credited with much at all of what happened in the world after 1492ālet alone all of it?
a society grounded in fiction, rather than reality, cannot function.
but aren't we always grounded in fiction?... the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves are always fictional to a degree...
a frustrating and irritating day in which i don't have desire to say much...