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“And in the void you heard my name. And you are like me. You are nothing but a place where dust is dancing. And then a gust that made me quake, So fleeting and young With mythologies pulled from lack. I wake up repeatedly and belong to the black.”

— Mount Eerie Preservation Society - Wind Speaks

inumerable

The Power and Limits of the Archive - Achille Mbembe (conclusion)

sertaline-official

Me, young and full of hubris: Baudrillard was a fool and a coward

Me, older, humbled, in a sports bar: oh no the spectacle

amerykah

ADHD is so funny it's like I diagnose you with lazy inconsiderate fuckup disease. And it's incurable. Here's meth

witchrealms

(x)

antigonick

Socrates said, “The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.” He wasn't talking about grammar. To misuse language is to use it the way politicians and advertisers do, for profit, without taking responsibility for what the words mean. Language used as a means to get power or make money goes wrong: it lies. Language used as an end in itself, to sing a poem or tell a story, goes right, goes towards the truth.

—Ursula K. Leguin, A Few Words for a Young Writer

luthienne

Anne Carson, from Nox

nohoperadio

It's a little fucked up that the past literally only persists in the form of its traceable effects upon the exact present moment. You would think that surely at least some little bits of the past that can't be deduced from the present state of things would nonetheless still be hanging around in some vague ghostly form, but nope! Completely gone forever! And yet however meanwhile, the present is so very rich in evidence of the past that you would think there's barely any room left for all the proper Now stuff. But somehow it all hangs together.

Just a thistle

do you ever think about dead versions of yourself that are fossilized in someone else's mind

shiny-good-rock

i see that this one kind of fucked everyone up

neenarchive

'not dishwasher safe' don't care i'm crazy. i'd put the holy grail in that thing

segamascott

bogleech

This is one of those true, declassified government things that always sounds made up but one of the things Henry Kissinger did with his career was use the CIA to help turn small, prosperous socialist nations into fascist dictatorships just to keep those nations powerless and possibly to keep socialist systems *looking* doomed and futile to the American public, like maybe just to scare Americans out of demanding better infrastructure or universal income. Yes it sounds like an insane conspiracy theory a maniac would invent. It also happened multiple times and several generations of people around the world are still living in misery because of it.