remember being like 13 and playing truth or dare with your friends and like you were gay but also you weren’t gay yet and anytime you picked dare you would desperately wish for something homoerotic to happen and it never did and you would get hit with a flash of like hot disappointment
what ageism is: elderly people living on social security alone not having enough to make ends meet, inaccessibility to public places for people with limited mobility, medical abuse in nursing homes, being assumed to be mentally incompetent, employment discrimination
what ageism is not: you getting mocked for being in your late 30s and getting into heated arguments on tumblr with high school kids about steven universe
While politics and medicine turned their backs on the returning soldiers, the horrors of the war were memorialized in literature and art. In All Quiet on the Western Front, a novel about the war experiences of frontline soldiers by the German writer Erich Maria Remarque, the book’s protagonist, Paul Baumer, spoke for an entire generation: “I am aware that I, without realizing it, have lost my feelings – I don’t belong here anymore, I live in an alien world. I prefer to be left alone, not disturbed by anybody. They talk too much – I can’t relate to them – they are only busy with superficial things.” Published in 1929, the novel instantly became an international best seller, with translations in 25 languages…
But when Hitler came to power a few years later, All Quiet on the Western Front was one of the first “degenerate” books the Nazis burned in the public square in front of Humboldt University in Berlin. Apparently awareness of the devastating effects of war on soldiers’ minds would have constituted a threat to the Nazis’ plunge into another round of insanity.
Denial of the consequences of trauma can wreak havoc with the social fabric of society. The refusal to face the damage caused by the war and the intolerance of “weakness” played an important role in the rise of fascism and militarism around the world in the 1930s…
German society dealt ruthlessly with its own traumatized war veterans, who were treated as inferior creatures. This cascade of humiliations of the powerless set the stage for the ultimate debasement of human rights under the Nazi regime: the moral justification for the strong to vanquish the inferior – the rationale for the ensuing war…
- “The Unbearable Heaviness of Remembering,” The Body Keeps the Score
“American kids are immersed in a ruthless culture of violence through entertainment and television, but unless they’ve grown up terrorized by gangs or poverty, they have no idea what war feels like, how it effects every aspect of your life and psyche. They have no idea what kind of harm this ‘cowboy’ culture perpetuates against human beings around the world, let alone in their own towns and cities. War is the natural extension of American popular culture and values. Look at the camouflage clothing parents are drowning their children in. This military clothing is at once a symbol of sex appeal and naive, rebellion without context. And it’s shamelessly flaunted while people are being slaughtered in the Middle East as a result of American aggression. We are objects of indoctrination and recruitment the moment we’re born.”
Dove chocolate and Dove soap are two different companies who havent sued each other because they have different trademarks lol
Damn and I really all this time just thought dove (the soap people) had a meeting one day and were just like “…. we might fuck around and make some chocolate”
This is the first tattoo I’ve gotten in a place where I grow thick body hair and I don’t know if I can ever do it again bc the hairs growing back and it itches so fucking bad but I don’t wanna scratch it
“Of the personality disorders [under neoliberalism], the most common are performance anxiety and social phobia: both of which reflect a fear of other people, who are perceived as both evaluators and competitors – the only roles for society that market fundamentalism admits. Depression and loneliness plague us.”
