Du Bois proved his genius in many ways. Among them, that the central thesis of whiteness as a phenomenon is the psychological wage of feeling vicarious power and belonging by identifying with the powerful. That this is so satisfying people will knowingly sacrifice to receive it.
I didn't think my first book would be poetry. But sometimes you "have to write." And this was hard, but I am proud of the result, and I feel relief releasing it. It ended up being deeply personal, about "after" trauma. I hope if you read it, it means something to you.
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The "will of the people" is a bludgeon to silence critique of leaders.
It doesn't exist. If it did, it's not discernable. If it was, it wouldn't hold intrinsic authority.
And any authority it did have couldn't be metaphysically transfered to any leader.
But I'm an anarchist.
Fuck Elon tho amirite
Would pro-Putin leftists really be glad if Putin started bombing apartment buildings in their city, killing their neighbors and family if it meant NATO would be weakened. How real are these anti-NATO positions? "Kill me next Big Daddy. Poison your enemies with polonium 210!"
Elon's Fort Knox thing is entirely predicated on the fact that Americans have learned, from cartoons and bad movies, that it's full of gold. It's a powerful cultural image, and the foundation of that image is literally cartoonish. It's a perfect medium for manufacturing outrage.
If you ever wonder why MAGA pushes anti-vaccination stuff.
Just remember that Nazis are into "culling the herd" and tend to think of people who get sick as "weak." They hate weakness. Nazis have all kinds of murderous beliefs about "strengthening" the population.
Yo hot take.
The Zelda franchise is one of the greatest of all times.
