misery is a butterfly

🌍 Gaza is starving to death — and the world must not stay silent.

"Why is ContraPoints saying [advocating for Palestine] is totally futile? Because ContraPoints doesn't want to do anything about it... She feels that the only reasonable way to live is to accept that things are bad and not going to change. Even though that is actually unreasonable. Even though it is actually also morally quite bankrupt. You are the one who is experiencing doom. That is the thing that you feel. That does not mean other people are supporting a doomed cause. It means that you feel doom about their cause. Examine why you might feel that way. They thought Vietnam was a doomed cause, too. Cuban revolution was a doomed cause. Chinese revolution was a doomed cause... "Zero Palestinian lives were saved"... I don't think this is true. For instance, think about the vast amount of fundraising campaigns that have tangibly helped, even as aid is blockaded in Israel, that has tangibly helped Palestinians. They have gained support as a result of this activism. So saying "zero Palestinian lives were saved" again, this is not true. This is not true. But second of all, even if it was true, you're going to blame people for speaking out against things that are actually wrong because it wasn't effective enough instead of just like offering better ways to do it? Does something have to be done or not? Does something have to be done or not?"

I wanted to share these quotes from Sang's video because I think he is really getting at something central I notice all the time on tumblr.

Last week after writing a post encouraging others to donate to my friend @fadel-dani's campaign (vetted by @gazavetters (#197) and 90-ghost) a lot of you actually did send funds.

“If Twin Peaks is “about” the horrors of incest, it is equally about the horror of the secret life of the American family. James Hurley says it best when he confesses to Donna that his mother is an alcoholic: “It’s the secrets people keep that destroy any chance they have of happiness and I don’t want us to be like that.” Agent Cooper echoes this sentiment when he tells Audrey that “Secrets are dangerous.” The worst secrets of all, Twin Peaks suggests, are the secret connections between culture and self that allow men to brutalize women. Laura Palmer in this context thus becomes a tormented female body emblematic of the post-modern age.”