magalim96 > Recent Status Updates

Kind of eerie.

‚Systems are designed to be invisible;they only become apparent to us when they break (climate change), when they don‘t work in ur favor (racial injustice) and when they harm us (policing, prisons, wars, military occupation.‘

‚The sitting room is subdued, symmetrical; it‘s one of the shapes money takes when it freezes.‘
Looove that line

‚Colonialism has made sure to lock our Indigenous culture behind that wall of shame. Colonialism has gaslit us into believing that what we know has no value within the structures of kodernism that it has erected on stolen lands and with stolen resources. Colonialism has left us with a legacy of doubt, uncertain if what we know and how we do things actually matters. But everyday our stories find their way back.‘

‚We lived, as usual, by ignoring. Ignoring isn‘t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it. Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub you‘d be boiled to death before you knew it. There were stories (…) but they were about other women, and the men who did such things were other men. The newspaper stories were like dreams to us (…) We lived in the gaps between the stories.‘

Love the cinematic style of writing, it‘s like i‘m a spectator in the scenes

‚Es gibt keine vernünftigere Regung als Liebe. Sie macht den Liebenden und dem Geliebten das Leben erträglich.‘

‚Im Grunde sind diese Gedanken ganz ohne Bedeutung. Die Dinge geschehen eben, und ich suche, wie Millionen Menschen vor mir, in ihnen einen Sinn, weil meine Eitelkeit nicht gestatten will, zuzugeben, dass der ganze Sinn eines Geschehnisses in ihm selbst liegt.‘ (257)

Es war fast unmöglich, in der summenden Stille der Wiese unter dem großen Himmel ein einzelnes abgesonderes Ich zu bleiben, ein kleines, blindes, eigensinniges Leben, das sich nicht einfügen wollte in die große Gemeinschaft.

‚The difference between a good dream and an oridnary dream hinged on whether the customers find enlightenment. The point is that they need to realise the lessons themselves instead of us spoon-feeding them. That‘s what makes a dream good.‘

Enjoying it a lot so far!