People from the USA are conditioned to only have empathy in parasocial contexts because those can be safely sublimated without threatening the system. This is why you can witness the…
Author: damnatio
just a trash panda on the internet
US society, such as it is, is an Anglo-Saxon dominated construct with heavy Puritan foundations. Most of us spend much of our lives censoring our thoughts and our words, not…
With social media burning down and fracturing, I’m going to start using this platform more for some continuity, but probably leave the interactions on social media. It’s time, I think.
There’s a large and comfortable space, right in the middle of “Western” social norms, where you can be an absolutely shitty person and be perfectly socially acceptable, normative even. If…
If you had any doubts about “both sides” types, Facebook ignored 455 reports against the Kenosha page that ended with two deaths and the loss of an arm. At the…
Government or Community: pick one. The human species is around a quarter million years old. We survived thus far by being an aggressively social species and living in community, both…
We might have a tokenization problem. There’s alot of stuff going around about white protesters “listening to Black voices”, but that gets treated as some kind of monolith. I’m seeing…
If you think about it, famous serial killers did not kill like 99.999% of everyone they met in their lives. But nobody remembers them for all the not-killing they did. …
“Guillotine Coverage” refers to what corporate brands and CEOs, as well as politicians, landlords, etc, are doing when they release statements about them supporting Black Lives Matter and the protests,…
The police state relies on engineered poverty and engineered insecurity. In exchange for the promise of basic human rights like stable housing, education, and healthcare, you’re expected to…