[gepgep2]

"This is something I found very interesting, I was reading Ivan Illich on education, and he was talking about how education stifles our natural curiosity, and at first I didn't really believe it. Then I thought about something. I noticed that people who haven't gone gone through higher education- they've gone through secondary education, maybe a little college- they don't ask follow-up questions. Have you ever noticed that? Often a conversation becomes this 'Well I think...' 'Oh yeah? Well I think...' 'Oh yeah? Well I think...'

They just go back and forth shooting opinions at each other and nobody ever says 'wait a minute. If you think that, does that mean this?' You know, sort of get inside somebody else's ideas, and try to follow through and explore. Then I thought 'well maybe higher education does do something positive in that it teaches people how to do this.'

And then suddenly I had this realization: No wait. Children do that all the time! That's all they ever do is like 'wait a minute, if you're saying this, then does that mean that? Well why's that?'

So basically children have a natural desire to do this! So something is happening in our educational system which is basically smashing that out of you. Saying 'Shut up! Stop asking questions! Stop thinking that way!'

Then they have these little 'opinions'- an opinion is what you have when you have no power, right? An opinion is like what I would do, but I have no say in the matter.

We don't want to have opinions. We want to have actual policies which is what powerful people do. We want to have actual decisions that we make collectively- which is the opposite of an opinion.

So essentially we have our natural inquisitiveness smashed out of us by this mechanized system, and then when you go to higher education they put it like halfway back it.[...] So I guess this is the point of real critical pedagogy, for me, or real education- is to undo the damage done to our minds by earlier education and open us up so we can just get back to where we were when we were children to begin with."

David Graeber

[shad0wband]

the world where rape is 'the ultimate crime' & complete social ostracization is just 'keeping the community safe'... well, that's our world now

[shad0wband]

we all have the RIGHT to be unraped & alone, forever

[gepgep]

[horsesource]

I love contamination aka I love to be alive

[gepgep]

'help' 'work' 'labor' 'care'

[a-typical]

The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine - Ilan Pappé (2006)

[horsesource]

[gepgep]

marxist fundamentalists literalizing and shrinking their own strong metaphors into mere prescriptive rhetoric

[gepgep]

marxists are really some of the most doctrinal people available to argue with

[gepgep]

a lot of anti-zionists want to be aryans the same way that herzl and freud did

[opencommunion]

imagine if all the money that the US, British Empire/UK, and other imperialist powers have funneled into the Zionist genocidal project over the last century was instead used to combat antisemitism within their own borders. there are countless Jewish cultural preservation and revitalization efforts that could use that money. there are antisemitic domestic terrorist networks in the US and Europe that those govts are either ignoring or actively cultivating. impoverished Jewish communities in the imperial core are left to fend for themselves while the “leaders of the free world” fund a genocide on another continent. imagine if all that money, all that material support, went towards creating a world where Jews everywhere can live safely in their own places of birth or safely return to the places their ancestors were forced to flee. but that wouldn’t happen because imperialist support for Israel has never been about combatting antisemitism; it’s about securing what is essentially a massive military base in a region that western imperialists have always desperately coveted

[gepgep]

the more that nation-states push funding into "combating antisemitism within their own borders," the more that "combating antisemitism" will converge with the interests of statecraft and empire building

this notion of a supposedly guaranteed "safety" of "Jews everywhere" is total reactionary idealism

the moment that Jews can take their safety from the violence of states and empires for granted is also the moment that the Zionist project is successful- Jews will have left all remainders of colonized subjectivity behind them and fully become true colonizers

"Sodom is still overturned as it was and is still unsettled"

[gepgep]

watch out for hazards when feeling both disgusted and righteous

[gepgep]

philosemetic jews

[gepgep]

self-reliance, self-responsibility(individualism even?) doesnt Have to be dualistically opposed to communism, especially actually-existing everyday communism. there Is a synthesis here

[gepgep]

not to depreciate the injustice of the gaza bombings but grocery stores are getting even more fascist

[gepgep]

the elisha ben abuyah of baeddels

[gepgep]

"I am your true Marxist critic, following Groucho rather than Karl, and take as my motto Groucho's grand admonition: 'Whatever it is, I'm against it!'"