this might sound silly but when people share pics they took on walks with me i kind of believe in beauty and humanity again like oh? you noticed a small creature? you were in awe of the deep blue of the sky? the way the light touched the houses and reflected off the windows? my heart sings we are alive we are alive we are alive
Every mosquito bite is an itchy way of joining yourself with nature.
A little bit of you becomes mosquito.
And then becomes a hundred mosquitoes.
A little bit of you then becomes fish and dragonfly, bluebird and bat.
A little bit of you will become grass and trees after that.
That itch is the itch of becoming one with Creation.
Sip by Jarod K Anderson
NeSpoon is a Polish artist, born in Warsaw, who mixes the delicacy of lace with the roughness and freedom of urban art
Recognizing propaganda and reminding yourself why it is BS does a huge amount to reduce the effectiveness of propaganda.
But, let the reader be aware, this does not make propaganda ineffective. It still works. It just takes longer. Some people fight it better than others. But for the average [White] American, the time we are 40 or so, we internalize too much of it find ourselves falling asleep into the American Dream and identifying with White upper middle class suburbia, status quo, the cops, American Empire, Capitalism, and billionaires.
It's only the people who "support the troops" who always get their panties in a bunch.
Did I just make the hardest starwars shirt of all time???
Blessed are the Poor in Spirit
Stop. No. Don’t humanize them.
These are the beings you have lived in fear of all your life.
But worse.
This is the hatred you have been sliced and grated on all your life.
But deeper.
Monsters, monsterous. Ignorant. Apathetic. Blind.
They don’t know they don’t know they don’t know of what you’ve seen. Nor do they want to. Nor would they believe you.
And when they spew their vile hatred no longer are they met with disdain.
They are cheered on.
Power hungry. Hungry for your blind obedience. Your hands. Your toil. Your silence.
So much silence and so much distance like you are an insect trapped beneath glass walls.
But they are hungry for more than obedience now. They are hungry for your admiration. For your adoration.
You have lived your life in literal starvation and in omnipresent fear. Why stop now? Now that the danger goes deeper, deeper, longer, greater than you could ever imagine?
You don’t mind for your own sake. You know you deserve nothing more than to die choking.
You mind for all the poor people. The parents torn from their children. The children torn from their parents. The workers who will not see power ever.
Power. You don’t have the power to feed your people. You don’t have the power to give them water. You don’t have the power to protect the children. You will live your whole life without power.
But you know that the prophecies are on your side. The last shall be first. The first shall be last. The hungry will feast. The well-fed will starve. The sick will be healed, the healthy will grow ill. The powerless will have power. The thirsty will have clean, pure water.
Glory to the newborn King.