Elena’s Reviews > Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World > Status Update

… the facts of the Nazi genocide were drummed into us like arithmetic tables … “It’s re-traumatisation, not remembering. There is a difference.” … remembering pits the shattered pieces of our selves back together again (re-member-ing); it is a quest for wholeness. At its best, it allows us to be changed and transmuted by grief. CONT in comm

Conspiracy theorists get the facts wrong but often get the feelings right - the feeling of living in a world with Shadow Lands, the feeling that every human misery is someone else’s profit, the feeling of being exhausted by predation and extraction, the feeling that important truths are being hidden. The word for the system driving those feelings starts with c, but if no one ever taught you how capitalism works …

We were not, and never were, self-made. We are made, and unmade, by one another.

Julius Tandler: “He who builds children palaces tears down prison walls.”




(ignoring for the moment that he was in favour of eugenics 🤡)