Piedra Fiera @PiedraFiera@qoto.org

I hate some national flags more than others. I am okay with those that have not been flown over colonized nations to signal their subjugation.

There is no such thing as unbiased history. Historians can try to portray different sides to an issue, just like journalism. But thinking you can "get the truth" is naive. The closest you can get is the refuting lies.
Propaganda is made out to be different from journalism and history but the most efective propaganda is really hard to refute because it is based on facts. Any history book can be made into propaganda, because it is not a matter of truthfullness but of how it is used.

Most schools suck. Being a teacher sucks, just like being a cop. Not much different when you consider the "school to jail pipeline". Both jobs are very much enjoyed by people that like having power over others. I am many of those in such position believe that the good they do, outweighs the bad. And many of the do not care, it is just their job. And some really get off on the impunity to harm.

Resist the urge to reinvent warm water. Some solutions have already been worked out. Getting schooled on some history is a bit harder than hitting up a search bar but most of the time it is worth it.

Humans also change rivers and lakes and entire ecosystems. Our actions can drive for richer biodiversity. Leaving Nature untouched is about driving poor people out. Agriculture can drive us to greater biodiversity. Mind you, a lot of agricultural practices do not.

four minutes and a half of
"How Wolves Change Rivers"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysa5OBhXz-Q

I hope our westernized ways give way to less thinking ourselves detached and in oposition to nature. Conquering nature is such a petty objective. And yet it sets the foundation for so much.

Los ejércitos tienen estados, más o menos abiertamente. Aún activamente "desmilitarizando" un estado, se corre el riesgo de sólo estar encubriendo una militarización. Ya sea porque la vida civil fue regimentada, el ejército fue "outsourced" a la vida civil, o porque es así más eficiente gestionar el control de otros estados-ejércitos sobre esa población-territorio.

Una de las conclusiones más brutales jamás para mí es que las masas escogieron el fascismo. La democracia no fue subvertida, fue necesario plantear que lo fue porque aceptar que el fascismo es un momento de la democracia implica demasiado. Implica que va volver a pasar. Y hemos aquí.

"Human progress" is one of the foundational myths of the West. It helps justify colonial atrocities. It helps erase all that was lost.
The end of the world started over 500 years ago and continues to this day. So many worlds were destroyed and yet the resistance of those forced into being our "other" into the backwards peoples continues to this day. Stopping the killing machine called human would not be progress but respite.

The whole "herd mentality" narrative rubs me wrong. We are social animals. Of course we have group dynamics.
I find it similar to using "animal" as an insult. I am an animal why would I be insulted? Rhetorical question I know the answer. "Animal" is about dehumanizing others based on thinking that humans are somehow above other animals? Except I try not to reproduce that type of hierarchies. Also please call me animal, I kinda enjoy it.
If you engage in this herd narrative as a critique please consider critiquing democracy or mass media instead of dehumanizing others. Also please note that referring to such phenomenons as "tribal" mentality or thinking is racist.

What is #Afropessimism ? What is #history ? What can history (not) do in service of black people given the insights of Afropessimism? If history fails to service black people, what should be done with history? This article argues that an unavoidable conclusion of Afropessimism is that history, a disciplinary mode of knowledge production, is tethered to the historical construct of the Human and thus is exploitative of the Slave/the Black, which is the negative image of the Human.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/hith.12261

This article elaborates on the implications of this indictment of history, suggesting that invention of different ways of being becomes at least possible to imagine—to think about—when history is brought into relief, not as the form by which historians account for the past but rather as the evidence of who historians are and what they value in the world as it exists.

Please avoid generalizations which shift the blame. Western civilization is not the whole of humanity. Identifying the problem is key to figuring out the solution. The systems imposed by the west are the problem.

caracterizar la violencia machista desde el "sólo por ser mujer" me parece errado porque esa generalización oculta que es en ciertas sociedades y culturas donde sucede. la cultura dominante no es la única. la colonización no destruyo a todas las sociedades, otras tradiciones contrarias. es dar por muertos a quienes todavía dan la lucha de quienes podríamos estar aprendiendo.

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