“Everything belonging to the tree is in this: its form and structure, its colours and chemical composition, its intercourse with the elements and with the stars, are all present in a single whole. The tree is no impression, no play of my imagination, no value depending on my mood; but it is bodied over against me and has to do with me, as I with it — only in a different way. Let no attempt be made to sap the strength from the meaning of the relation: relation is mutual.”
— Consider the Tree — philosopher Martin Buber on the discipline of not objectifying and the difficult art of seeing others as they are, not as they are to us.
universalequalityisinevitable:
Peter Joseph on structural violence, from this video.
Brilliant
Spot on. Like Coretta Scott King said, I must remind you that starving a child is violence. Neglecting school children is violence. Punishing a mother and her family is violence. Discrimination against a working man is violence. Ghetto housing is violence. Ignoring medical need is violence. Contempt for poverty is violence.
The fact that incels think they’re rebelling AGAINST the gendered status quo is so wild to me like how do u not realize ur playing right into the hegemony’s hands??? How do u not realize hating and resenting and dehumanizing women is the point the same way hating yourself for not being masculine enough is the point????? It all stems from the same root
Like how can u so blatantly ignore the ways society falsely positions u against women to get u to hate them when one of ur main goals as an incel is to “fight” the ways society positions u against yourselves for often the same exact reasons? Yanno what I mean???
college is just the worst opinions you’ve ever heard being counted as participation points
“Tell me about the dream where we pull the bodies out of the lake
and dress them in warm clothes again.”— Richard Siken, from “Scheherazade” (Crush)
“Among the city people, especially intellectuals, there is one word used all the time: ‘but’. For instance, the urban say, ‘She is beautiful, but simple,’ whereas peasants say, ‘She is beautiful, and simple.’ Because, for the peasantry, acceptance of contradiction is essential.”
countervisuality 