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If you enjoyed this book you should read every other book in the world for extra textual context. All things are intricately related to one another.

i am always fascinated by the notion of one particular technological or scientific revelation fundamentally changing how humans interact with the world, because this often gets associated with only the last hundred years of human history - as if ipads have changed the world irreversibly, but discovering that there were in fact seven continents and not two did not.

prints of this drawing are now available in my shop :-)

It's correlated with a rise in conservatism, sex negativity, and attempted censorship across the board in the western world.

the reason you, a white american, believe that white americans don't have culture is the same reason fish don't believe in water

yes i know you think it's an antiracist statement, that you're saying it's a bad thing white americans don't have culture. but what you're actually saying is that the way white americans live is simply the normal way to live and that "culture" refers only to deviations from that norm

there's real holidays and then there's, you know, cultural holidays. there's regular foods and there's ethnic foods

if you feel some kind of yearning as a white american to connect with your Ancestral Culture you can get really into wearing lederhosen or playing bagpipes or whatever. but you could also just learn to understand the way you are living right now as a culture and not some kind of neutral default absence of culture

my personal argument for open borders is really simple it just boils down to "i believe restricting human movement and barring certain people from certain places on this earth is a human rights violation"

i mean this. everyone should be able to walk freely between mexico and the united states, fuck an ID, fuck a passport, fuck a visa. it's land, continuous, uninterrupted land. the soil on one side of the fense has the same geologic makeup of the soil on the other. we drew this invisible line in the sand, we can wipe it away with our feet together. it is well past time the world organizes en masse for our freedom of movement.