Lemmings don’t jump off of cliffs unless they’re being chased. Frogs don’t stay in boiling water unless they’ve been lobotomized first. Crabs don’t pull each other back into the bucket unless they are desperately and randomly grabbing for anything to try to get themselves out, out of fear for their lives.
Actions taken in specific, negative conditions don’t exemplify the nature of all beings.
Before you mock a sheep for staying with the flock, ask what dogs nip at its heels when it strays too far, and what wolves wait just beyond the edge of the pasture.
Remember guys, the moderate socdems are the reasonable ones with experience achieving concrete political ends & we're the naive ones
I love reading a book you are slightly too stupid for
ways to keep reading despite feeling stupid because the tags you all keep adding have made me realize that my post is being used to self harm:
- recognize that stupidity is a cultural concept leveraged against stigmatized populations who operate from devalued spheres of intelligence
- notice feelings of panic and shame and frustration rising in your body when you encounter a difficult text, react to them like a loving friend who thinks you deserve to learn things
- recognize the conditioning it takes to convince someone they are too stupid to deserve to learn things
- go back and read a difficult text whose meaning and nuances escaped you the first time around after you read two or three more and the first one has had time to cook in your brain
- open your brain’s mouth like a whale shark and cruise through the water digesting anything that gets caught in your filter plates
And sometimes you just won’t get it. You’ll turn it over in your head and you’ll poke and prod and reread and you won’t get it.
And that’s okay.
One of my most memorable reading experiences as a teenager was reading a novel called Sophie’s World. It’s a Norwegian “novel about the history of philosophy” and it was dense and complicated and confusing, but it was still so rewarding to read somehow. I still don’t understand most of the complicated philosophical concepts the book introduced, but just because I didn’t understand most of it doesn’t mean it wasn’t still interesting and entertaining. It doesn’t mean I didn’t learn anything just bc i wasn’t smart enough to understand the whole thing.
And the same goes for all of you! Just because a book is over your head doesn’t mean you can’t still learn, or that your time reading it is wasted, or that you’re stupid. It just means that you’re not going to understand everything and there’s nothing wrong with that!
Have fun, and good luck with your reading! :)
Sophie’s World was mind blowing for my tiny 13yo brain as well and I did not understand most of the philosophy stuff. I think I read it like three times (and also a bunch of other jostein gaarder novels, they weren’t all that incomprehensible). There was a PC game based on Sophie’s World in which you played like Sophie iirc and you were taught philosophy through perhaps more accessible means. I never completed the game though
I’ve been lurking on here quite a bit recently. So I might as well post something after 4 years away from this puritanical pit. Is anyone else still around? Fatima by me __ www.edmaximus.com www.edmaximus.xyz IG:@edmaximus
consider this: wheelchairs should be free
Consider this: if you need it to live it should be affordable
consider this: if you need it to live, it should be free
shit man this got me emotional
left: the Nebra sky disc, circa 1600 BCE, showing the Moon, Sun, and stars in gold on copper - the oldest depiction of the cosmos in the world
right: the Webb Space Telescope, July 2022, revealing thousands of baby galaxies forming in the early days of the universe - humankind’s deepest look into the sky
I wanted to put a more positive spin on the popular skeleton leaving meme
Asexuals were always part of pride and it really fucking shows when people think it's a recent term.
Although not going by the term "asexual" yet, asexuality was spoken about alongside homosexuality as far back as the 1890s. Asexual history is just as vital to queer history as any other term and I'm so tired of watching us being treated like a new thing
This image is so so fucking important to me
Reblog this, cowards
JUNE 2023 VS JUNE 2013
Decided to redraw a piece from ten years ago that was very important to me back then. Many things changed from that time, and it's always nice to have a look above your shoulder to see how far you've come ♥
The original:
Details under the cut
well see it can do the work of the colon, the semicolon, or the parenthesis with more speed and less formality than any of these, plus you can use it to capture the stream-of-consciousness effect of a comma splice with much less loss of clarity. sort of an all-purpose punctuation for the casual yet elaborate written construct.
futchcommunist-deactivated20190
all cops are bastards because all cops are just doing their jobs
jucheguevara
“I’m just doing what I’m told. If I am ordered to remove gold fillings from refugees theeth then that’s what I’ll do”, says police officer Michael Hansen. Just thought I’d add this since not a lot of people outside of the nordic countries seem to have seen it. This is a danish police officer discussing a new danish law that says the police should seize the possesions and money of refugees to finance the integration.
can i say something kind of mean
too many people on this site claim to be into toxic love cannibalism gore blood violence weird gross sex etc etc when it’s like 1. you are scared of having even regular sex and 2. you can’t even drink a beer bc it’s too icky like i don’t think you’re gonna be chugging human blood any time soon 👍
once again seeing a post indicating the presence of remarkable tumblr discourse I have managed to miss entirely
Imagine being mad about people being posers about cannibalism. Like what do you want tumblr users to do, kill and eat people?
