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future generations will think of us as primitive for how we used to log onto the internet & just expose our minds to hyperpolluted & adversarial information environments without any cognitive or psychological guardrails

Fuck Orbán Fuck Orbán Fuck Orbán Chants from one of our shows in Poland last year 🔥

No country in the world needs a regime change as much as the United States does.

john waters at the no kings rally in provincetown

The only worthwhile “western culture” in modern times is culture which rejects and opposes the dystopian nature of western civilization and the abuses of the western empire. Western civilization is what’s bombing Iran. It’s what’s strangling Cuba. It’s what’s torching Lebanon. It’s what’s exterminating Palestine. It’s what stole Venezuela. It’s what’s plundering the labor and resources of the global south. It’s what’s keeping the systems in place which are killing our ecosystem and driving us closer to nuclear armageddon. There is no sane and truthful position to have toward all this but vehement rejection. Westerners — particularly white westerners in nations with colonialist histories like the United States and Australia — often struggle to find their cultural moorings. It can be difficult to find an authentic position from which to express art and take your stand as a personality when you feel culturally rootless and historically ungrounded. It causes a kind of dissonance with our lives that can haunt us until we die. The best way to resolve this dissonance is to take your stand in opposition to the perverse society into which you were born. Express from the standpoint of resistance to this horrifying nightmare civilization that is fueled by human blood. We live in a sick and intensely mind-controlled dystopia where everything is fake and stupid. Mainstream culture is a nonstop celebration of the vapid and inane. The movies glorify cops and soldiers. The music exalts capitalism, consumerism, egotism and frivolity. The products are made by wage slaves and the fuel is obtained by war. The food is designed to reap profits rather than to nourish. The news media is designed to propagandize rather than to inform. It’s a disgusting civilization, to be honest. The more you learn about it, the more repulsive it becomes. How could anyone relate to the human experience from inside this hellscape in a truth-based way, except by opposition? The only way to participate in “western culture” is to help create a new kind of culture which stands squarely in opposition to it. As Terence McKenna once said, “We have to create culture. Don’t watch TV. Don’t read magazines. Don’t even listen to NPR. Create your own roadshow… Reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that’s being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.” The only way to create culture with sincerity in this dystopia is by forcefully rejecting its fraudulence and abusiveness, and embracing revolution and resistance. To do anything else is to give tacit approval to the horrific nature of this civilization, and it will always ring a bit hollow and dissonant, because it is ignoring the elephant in the room. The elephant in the room is the unacceptable depravity and deceit that’s going on all around us. So if you want to make art, make revolutionary art. If you want to express yourself, express your defiance of the western empire. Oppose the wars. Oppose the militarism. Oppose the imperialism, the ecocide, the injustice, the tyranny. That’s the only way to be authentic in an inauthentic society.

John Gerrard's "Western Flag" is probably the most relevant work of art right now.

Gut wrenching photo of Red Crescent rescue workers in Tehran recovering toys belonging to the children killed in US/Israel strikes.

UNICEF’s @1james_elder: “168 girls killed in a school in Iran…When the killing of children doesn’t dominate the news politics, something fundamental has shifted…if a child can be killed and it doesn’t feel like a loss for all of us, then I think we’ve lost more than we realize”

Plumber, socialist, anti-racist, champion of working class communities… watch Hannah Spencer’s victory speech here. “We are sick of our hard work making other people rich”. Massive blow to Starmer’s genocidal “Labour” party.

There’s an essay by the German author Heinrich von Kleist that I think about whenever someone rhapsodizes about artificial intelligence. The title of the essay is “On the gradual completion of thoughts while speaking” (Über die allmähliche Verfertigung der Gedanken beim Reden).

Let me try a direct upload of the video to X, to see if it is rendered any better. The Starling murmuration on Sinker's Fields, Whixall, this evening.

“I needed to make something that was not in the past, but about what is still happening.” KAOUTHER BEN HANIA The Tunisian director behind the Oscar-nominated THE VOICE OF HIND RAJAB speaks to us about making a film that deals with the present. lecinemaclub.com/journal/qa-wit…

His name is Seamus Culleton. He's been here for 20 years and is married to a U.S. citizen. He is speaking out about his experience in ICE detention for the last 5 months. Please listen and share.

anyone still pushing red team/blue team propaganda should be viewed with deep suspicion. there's team humanity/team billionaires. that's it.

See this lone penguin float past on the iceberg one calm misty morning in Antarctica was so incredible.