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To paraphrase: "It's the social hierarchies, stupid."

AND: Wealth hoarders love social hierarchies, it keeps the focus off all the wealth they are hoarding.

Big picture/systemically focused, so I have a low tolerance for folks who are corporate shades of blue, and nearly no tolerance for folks to the right of that.

I'm happy to interact, but I don't auto follow back and use manual follow requests to try to keep this platform human to human.

Peace!

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This is a fucking play. Nothing less, nothing more.

CJPaloma ,
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@StillIRise1963

unfortunately, it follows that pretty much everything related to fascism is when you get right down to it: nothing -but- theater

…because it is all built on the fantasy of "superiority" among bigoted idiots…

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    CJPaloma ,
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    @breadandcircuses @alx @AnnieBuddy @dennyhenke @fulanigirl thanks!

    CJPaloma , to random
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    The world is in trouble due to a fairly small minority of grandiose, mostly male, self hating, abusive assholes.

    CJPaloma OP ,
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    The reason it's been so hard to face this rather obvious fact is because colonizer cultures have spread far and wide. They've needed abusive pigs to terrorize Others in order to expand.

    Of course they can't call these spreaders (edit: and enforcers) of culture "abusive pigs," so they brainwash us into thinking oppressive pigs are normal, even heroic in some circumstances.

    It's been a bad dream. Time to wake the fuck up.

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    @philip_cardella

    As long as there have been enough soldiers willing to invade other lands, we've had colonization. So thousands of years, not hundreds.

    To get people to kill others, there has to be -deep- cultural level assumptions about " good ways to act."

    And a FOUNDATIONAL way to do that is through Othering based: in patriarchy, racism, wealth, etc.

    Until people stop believing colonization is "good ackshully" we'll be stuck. It's been a fucking cancer.

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    @philip_cardella

    colonization is based in violence. -All- colonizing entities have been patriarchal as well as hierarchical in other ways (filled with assumptions about wealth, race, religion, abilities, etc). When oppression in your own family is "natural", then oppressing others is also "natural"

    Colonization is our history. But it's certainly not the only way things could have played out. People who grow up in abusive homes have to -learn- that that other ways of living are possible.

    CJPaloma OP ,
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    @philip_cardella

    or maybe the word has been cleaned up and sanitized (or even made into a heroic thing... by the mythologies of the brave members of the 13 colonies bringing "CIviLIZAtion" to the "new World" ??)

    Maybe these dynamics have been obsfucated intentionally…because they are ugly.

    Fascism is simply a resurgence of the ideas of hierarchies that are -deeply embedded- in "the liberal world's empire building"

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    @philip_cardella

    okay, saying it's "simply" a resurgence from ideas already embedded in the culture is overstating it, but only a little.

    But truly: what I said really does NOT contradict other writings about fascism… ideas about domination…ummm, ARE firmly rooted in the "liberal world order's empire building" projects, along with more well meaning stuff.

    It's easy to illustrate. White male soldiers came home from killing Nazis and yet continued to oppress women, POC, etc.

    🤷‍♀️

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    @philip_cardella

    sorry, disagree. Narrow definitions of words have often been helped by expanded ideas about what they encompass. For example, take the expansion of the word "democracy"

    All of these large scale things are -dynamics- and dynamics ebb, flow and fluctuate in other ways, like a river. When the Mississippi is overflowing do we call it something other than a river?

    CJPaloma , to random
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    When I scroll through this feed you and I have created, I pretty regularly read about books and authors I have never heard of. So for discovery purposes, my feed is doing a great job.

    Just finished The Anthropocene Reviewed, By John Green.

    It's a series of essays that are accessible (I mean that in the best sense), and thought provoking. Yet the essays are also often good summations of thoughts shared by many of us at this moment in time. I give it four stars.

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    A nine-panel comic, with me in every panel...

    Things book lovers do: Read several books at one time, while also having a stack of books to read next, and keeping a running list of even more books you want. Feel happy when you remember you get to read your book later. Feel sad and lost when you finish a great book. Pause to appreciate a beautifully written sentence. See the cover of an old book and be transported back to your youth. Find joy and comfort in rereading a favorite book. Walking into a library or bookstore and say, "I could live here!"
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    @breadandcircuses same

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