Something Witty Will Go Here Eventually

one day you think: I want to die. and then you think, very quietly: actually. actually. I think I want a coffee. a nap. a sandwich. a book. and I want to die turns day by day into want to go home, I want to walk in the woods, I want to see my friend, I want to sit in the sun, I want a cleaner kitchen, I want a better job, I want to live somewhere else. I want to live.

A Reminder of Horrors Past:

IMPORTANT ADVICE FOR TUMBLR NEWBIES:

Plato: Luxury and unlimited power are forces that corrupt human beings and lead them to being colonialist and stupid. The gods will punish Athens if we continue to exploit others for our own gain. I have invented this society as a parable to illustrate my point because I tend to use metaphor for a lot of things.

Plato: I’ve purposefully included details like a mud shoal west of Iberia that doesn’t exist and references to a volcanic eruption that we all have cultural memory of as an obvious indication that I made this up. Are you paying attention? It’s a metaphor. I’m using literary references. You can go west of Iberia yourself. It’s not there. I explained where it is and it’s not there. You all know it’s not there. Please stop it with the luxury and exploitation. That’s my main point here.

Let's also not forget that his description of the location, landscape, and geology of the capitol of Atlantis nearly perfectly matches the Azore Islands, which just happen to not only have large chunks of said islands which would've been above water during the last ice age, but are also located right at the junction of three continental plates, making vertical crust displacement of the islands more likely and significant in the event of a natural disaster.

No, Plato imagined it. Because he wasn’t a historian. He was a philosopher with a well documented habit of making up entire civilizations as thought experiments. There’s no mention of Atlantis anywhere before he made it up as an allegory.

Holy shit!

YES. It was 100% intentional. I highly recommend reading up on the making of this film. There was an incredible amount of care that went into the development.

This country claims to be democratic but 9 unelected people who's values and opinions formed decades prior, who can get into this position without strong or even any valid credentials, can decide to negatively impact or even destroy millions of lives and they cannot be held accountable for it. They can't be impeached or voted out. It's only the most convoluted combination of election-year voting, voter suppression/lack thereof, and idk fucking cowardice from both sides that got any of them to where they are now. 9 people who are cemented in their beliefs and then use the law and constitution to justify their moral opinions that they insist don't influence their rulings at all. We can't vote then out. We just have to hope they retire or die under the presidency of someone who doesn't want to actively kill everything, and eve then we have to contend with any given republican or spineless Democrat in the Senate.

Losing Miranda Rights protections wasn’t on my 2022 bingo card yet here we are….

So this means that you do still have the right to remain silent.

Now more than ever: DO NOT TALK TO COPS.