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… 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
— Jun 15, 2025 12:55PM
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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 …
— May 29, 2025 02:07AM
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We were not, and never were, self-made. We are made, and unmade, by one another.
— May 27, 2025 05:10AM
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Liberal investments in individualism result in thinking of power as residing in individuals and groups rather than structures. Without an analysis of capital or class they end up default to the stories the West tells itself about the power of the individual to change the world. But hero narratives easily flip into villain narratives.
— May 27, 2025 05:10AM
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Julius Tandler: “He who builds children palaces tears down prison walls.”
(ignoring for the moment that he was in favour of eugenics 🤡)
— May 26, 2025 08:06AM
(ignoring for the moment that he was in favour of eugenics 🤡)
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Jun 15, 2025 12:57PM
But re-traumatisation is about freezing us in a shattered state; it’s a regime of ritualistic enactments designed to keep the losses as fresh and painful as possible. Our education did not ask us to probe the parts of ourselves that might be capable of inflicting great harm on others, and to figure out how to resist them. It asked us to be as outraged and indignant at what happened to our ancestors as if it had happened to us - and to stay in that state.
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