老外 @Expat1975@qoto.org
Father. Husband. Writer. Teacher. Living in Shenzhen, China for the past 8 years. Don't want to talk politics here. Love movies and TV shows. Post gifs a lot. Loves to read me some books that are wrote real good - especially history.
Joined Aug 2018
What does a boy know but what’s in front of his face? The soft grass on the front lawn. Summer. Cars and trucks and the tit. Rain. What does a boy know but what he can remember? It was cold last night and people were arguing. Cars and trucks and the tit. There was no rain last night.
These are the sharpest that his mind will ever be for he had no words for them but remembers. If it is said that language is a curse for not being able to capture an essence then what can it be said of the same that nightmares get trapped in words and drop to the soil and filter back up to the clouds to come down again? A lover is remembered in words, that lost. The soft hand of the mother is remembered in words, that lost. But so are the marks of the inevitable future for the boy who is caught at the wrong and slight curve of the massive beast of history. Of which there are many. Of which are born again almost as much as the boy. These etches are never lost.
It is the boy’s wont that he will gravitate towards violence. Some will say that it is societal pressure but when they speak they do not listen to the fact that they ARE societal. They speak as an Oak on the shore but are leaves in the river. A big river been running mighty since the rain fell on the boy’s future. He of the downturned leaf meant to dip and remain submerged in the stream until a head comes up, his own, and races for the stem. To guide it, you see, but that is the myth of the river. The myth of one in the river is that guidance is there at all. The Oak gods smile and they laugh. The boy is a man upon hearing that perfect laughter. He will make another then.
@snder Now you tell me!
@Wetrix I do understand that already. What I would like, for history's sake, and the sake of my children, is for people to recognize what's happening before it's too late.
I blame Americans more for what's happening there more than any German when. The German population was under extreme financial distress - the economic collapse and the Communist Revolution in Russia. What you have to understand is just how long propaganda has been feed to the dumbest of Americans. It's been happening for at least 20 years through Fox News/ Right Wing Radio.
@pschwede 我是美国人。现在我觉得我的国家很不好。
I'm still reading a lot about Hitler/ WWII. Currently making my way through The Holocaust: A New History, by Laurence Rees, author of Hitler's Charisma, the last book. Some parallels are beyond striking. There were people who praised Hitler because he 'told it like it was', rather than follow the political mold of before. I'm most interested in how the average mind could be flipped to evil. I remember, I think this was in a documentary, that one of the first thing the Nazis did was give away radios, so that everyone could follow them. I suppose that before TV, a radio was like every social media site tied together in one big bow.
@pschwede 你是哪里人？
@aldersprig I don't want Stephen King trying to steal my shit.
Speed it Up, speed it up. Turn up the bass.
@scooterquote Bang the bass, turn up the treble. Radical mind, day and night, all the time.
@freemo Come to China. They're less than one US dollar per big bottle in restaurants. What a time to be alive!
@pschwede 你也干杯。是，我会说汉语，但是我还说的不好
All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
--Tennessee Williams
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Father. Husband. Writer. Teacher. Living in Shenzhen, China for the past 8 years. Don't want to talk politics here. Love movies and TV shows. Post gifs a lot. Loves to read me some books that are wrote real good - especially history.
Joined Aug 2018
