Aletheia

activist / anarcho-syndicalist / anthropologist

[caringcoffeechats]

controversial opinion but unfortunately you are your actions and what you say. if you are mean to people, it doesn’t matter if you sometimes have secret kind thoughts. fortunately you are your actions and what you say. if you are kind in your actions and your words, it doesn’t matter if you sometimes have mean thoughts. the power is in working against inner negative thoughts and being a better person despite it. you have the ability to cultivate the person you want to be.

[theconcealedweapon]

[segamascott]

[pocket-deer-belly]

[cool-ghoul]

[technofeudalism]

seeing a lot of people suggest that healthcare CEOs should go into hiding or employ more private security and i could not possibly disagree more. you can't live the rest of your life in fear. i think it's imperative that they get back to work, in person at least 3 days a week at the headquarters address listed on their company's website.

[depsidase]

[andrewmaxedon]

Ai Weiwei, “Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn,” 1995

An astonishingly irreverent piece of work.  This triptych features the artist dropping a Han Dynasty (206 BC - 220 AD) in three photographs.  

When questioned about the work, he suggested that the piece was about industry: “[The urn] was industry then and is industry now.”  His statement, therefore, was that the urn was just a cheap pot two thousand years ago, and the reverence we feel toward it is artificial.  One critic wrote: “In other words, for all the aura of preciousness acquired by the accretion of time (and skillful marketing), this vessel is the Iron Age equivalent of a flower pot from K-Mart and if one were to smash the latter a few millennia from now, would it be an occasion for tears?”

However, the not-so-subtle political undertone is clear.  This piece was about destroying the notion that everything that is old is good…including the traditions and cultures of China.  For Ai Weiwei, this triptych represents a moment in which culture suddenly shifts (sometimes violently), shattering the old and outdated to make room for the new.  

[radiowithnohead]

ive thought about this piece daily since first seeing it

[wulfsbaiine]

In discussions and media about feminism, we really need to stop portraying it as, "You can't be fat, you can't be ugly, you can't be weird! Women always exist within double standards!" and more as, "We are sold into sex slavery worldwide, either as prostitutes or wives. Our biggest predator is men, especially the ones closest to us, as they are more likely to molest, rape, beat, and murder us than anyone else. We do not have complete freedom and power over how we use our reproductive organs - in fact, the female body is so understudied and stigmatized that we often live our lives in pain and die from related issues such as ovarian cancer and childbirth. Men own and control the majority of the world's resources, land, and money, but women do more than half of worldwide labor alongside the care of their own homes and family members, remaining destitute. Even if women do not participate in wars as soldiers, we are still trafficked, raped, and killed by men on all sides during it. Our political power is extremely limited, and is still taken as a threat, even though we are the majority. The hate of women is practiced in these ways every single day."

[spacedadsupport]

Jean-Luc Picard @SpaceDadSupport Using your privileged voice towards social justice while also amplifying less privileged voices above your own is how to build a legacy of change. 1:29 PM · Oct 7, 2023

[mysharona1987]

[horrorlesbians]

the obsession with aesthetic-izing everything is a disease that companies have sold us via influencers. it's all about turning your private space into a perfect backdrop for videos and photos, everything has to be a soundstage to market a product. making you view your own private space like a voyeur, already imagining the comments people might leave if your home isn't what they deem ideal. your fridge does not need to be aesthetically pleasing, you don't need to empty out spices from plastic packaging into a glass jar of the exact same size of the original packaging. not everything has to be pinterest goals. there is so little time, just live life.

[shithowdy]

"i'm not triggered or upset by or even ideologically opposed to it, i just associate it with something so bad that i can't enjoy it anymore" is such a frustrating relationship to have with a piece of media

[shithowdy]

it’s covered in the fucking ooze!!

[duckdotcom]

imagine if doorways grew back like scabbed over with fresh drywall and you had to keep carving them back out with a jabsaw to keep the doorway clear etc

[cryptotheism]

Imagine if the membranes recoiled in pain every time you did this. Imagine if over time, some doorways became accustomed sensation. Imagine that very rarely, some even seemed to enjoy it.

[moonbeamdagger]

*sleepover host voice* imagine if you two went to sleep

[elodieunderglass]

Oh for gods sake kids it’s like piercing an ear - that’s why you put a doorframe in - you don’t hang a door in drywall, you gremlins. You frame the door. It’s like those gauges that people put in their ears - the hole stays. It won’t scab over with a doorframe in it. You’ve lived around doors you whole life, you little clowns. Lights out

[cherryking]

i understand why old people sit outside just to sit outside

[jovan]

[libraford]

Few performances in the history of film will match the absolute unhinged feral energy of Gene Wilder in Young Frankenstein.

[libraford]

Same feral, different unhinged.

Willy Wonka is a quiet, calculated matter of unhinged that comes from a dude with a secret plan.

Fred Fronkensteen has zero plan, zero idea what he's doing, but has no fucking qualms with screaming to the damn heavens.

[eriquin]

You’re absolutely correct. 

Meanwhile Leo Bloom is dealing with someone else’s secret plan with anxiety and screaming and almost making it work. 

[libraford]

... excuse me, I have to make a grid for science.

[libraford]