Let's start with why I am not a big fan of schooling. I think that by default, school does a lot of harm. Worst on the list is that school teaches you that there is an official idea of what is right and wrong. And you are taught
I was rapidly scanning the "Discounted" section of a small local store selling school textbooks, while waiting for a bus. There was a book with the title Conflict in Indochina: 1954-1979 (a.k.a close to the whole timeframe of war in Viet Nam after WWII, and including
The persecution of Julian Assange, in particular, reveals a uniformity across the landscapes of empire, from the U.S. to the U.K. to Sweden to anywhere. In one of my previous posts on The Notions of Empire, examining some of what 'valid career paths' and 'invalid
There is a curious reverence that the mainstream media conglomerates grant the legal and justice frameworks of imperial society. Citizens of empire display deep indignance when a loved one is unjustly killed. For each sensational death, there is the elicited sympathy for the grieving families, and the listless demonisations of
The role of the creative intelligentsia is to reproduce the culture and ideas that help the empires maintain their state of rule, to loosely paraphrase Chris Hedges and Karl Marx. Their effect is pervasive; yet curiously, surprisingly so un-intrusive... to the conditioned eyes, ears, minds of the masses, and to
In the West, there persists a great reluctance to truly even just talk about the carnage that previous generations have wrought. This is because current generations benefit from the exploitative systems — parasitic, even, we would say — that have been built relying on the results of that carnage, and continue to