Adam Caldoon

Big round of applause from the Hay Festival audience for Jess Phillips saying “be wary of people who promise you loads of things”

Two Turkish friends rode 6,500 km across 3 countries on a motorcycle, reaching the Holy Land in just 17 days to perform Umrah. 🏍️🕋 ​Proof that when your heart is full of faith (Imaan), distances disappear and Allah opens the doors.

The Israeli strike on a tent in Khan Younis today severed the foot of a one-month-old infant. The infant’s mother and a 6-year-old girl were also killed in the same attack. 🎥 Filmed by Ibrahim Muhareb.

Which human invention has caused the most damge to humanity.

O Estado de Israel é o mais podre do mundo. O mais degenerado desde a Alemanha nazista. Alguns de seus feitos: genocídio palestino, limpeza étnica, expansionismo militar, prisão e violência contra ativistas humanitários. O regime sionista é um chorume de racismo e colonialismo.

The more Israeli history you know The more pro Israel you will be. 🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱

Trad™ Muslims do not, and will not, subject premodern modes of production and social organisation to the same level of moral and ontological scrutiny as they do urbanised industrial modernity. At most, they’ll acknowledge that feudal agrarianism and nomadic pastoralism saw it’s fair share of evils, but they’ll never explore how these premodern anthropological systems were innately predisposed to structurally engendering forms of oppression unique to its ontology. But they’ll absolutely refuse to entertain the need for industrial modernity, because it is “ontologically kufri”. It just so happened that Islam was so culturally hegemonic in the medieval age, that it partially sublimated feudal agrarianism and nomadic pastoralism. However Islam couldn’t fundamentally root out the structural evils endemic to it. This is the Dunya; Islam didn’t come to bring utopia on earth, it came to make Allah’s Kalimah supreme on this earth. We can only try to organise society in a way most amenable to fulfilling our duties to Allah. The mode of human organisation must shift to accommodate the needs of the age. Trads™ will pay lip-service by saying that “proper application of Islam” solves the problems of premodern anthropologies, which completely ignores that Islam had to fight the spiritually-entropic tendency of these premodern systems. Reversion to the mean meant reversion to barbarism and oppression. This is just conveniently glossed over. But they’ll prattle endlessly about why industrial modernity is ontologically evil, and how it precludes spiritually healthy society because it emerged from the socio-cultural context of Northwestern Europe in the Great Divergence. Trads™ never stop to consider that perhaps feudal agrarianism and nomadic pastoralism didn’t arise from an “Islamic context” either, nor do they scrutinise the spiritual health of these bygone societies (it wasn’t all pretty, to say the least). This is the psychosis of the traumatised Trad™ who hunkers down in his impotence against colonial forces, unable to envisage Islam’s sublimation of industrial modernity. They hope the world somehow reboots to a time before the Steam Age, where all will be will again. Trads™ throw the baby of industrial modernity out with its bathwater.

This might be a hot take but I know someone at meta who makes $400k a year and is quite literally capped at that number for life - likely will never get a promotion strong enough to change that. 9-5 until they’re what, 50? This is not living. No matter the salary.