#occidentosis

[sewercentipede]

has anyone read this? dm me

[theangryminority]

I am supposed to preserve my manners, culture, music, religion, and so forth untouched, like an unearthed relic, so that the gentlemen can find and excavate them, so they can display them in a museum and say, 'Yes, another example of primitive life.'

Al-e Ahmad, Occidentosis

[iusedtousemyrealname]

I presented this paper at a conference at the New School in April. I like a lot of it, though I had to cut out two pages on Ali Shariati for time. 

[iusedtousemyrealname]

I speak of "occidentosis" as of tuberculosis. But perhaps it more closely resembles an infestation of weevils. Have you seen how they attack wheat? From the inside. The bran remains intact, but it is just a shell, like a cocoon left behind on a tree. At any rate, I am speaking of a disease: an accident from without, spreading in an environment rendered susceptible to it.

Jalal Al-e Ahmad, Occidentosis