ඉසුරී

I’m so frustrated with the self centered nihilism of a lot of “socially conscious” people in first world countries that wallows in this….mental prison of “everything and everyone are doomed so why bother doing anything beyond what makes only you happy and also maybe the absolute bare minimum of what we can do to ensure some people live a little bit longer”. there are active labor movements all over the world! Including in countries that are feeling the burn of climate change and nationalist chauvinism well before the rest of us will suffer under it’s full extent. what I see when I’m forced to witness what I can only describe as self absorbed helplessness is people hoping that the third world and poor people in other countries ‘fix’ the planet but only to the extent where people in the first world can still enjoy frivolous luxuries

Identity has become the axis of so much university activism because, for all the radical posturing associated with it, identity politics does not threaten the established order of society. It promotes a moralistic and self-indulgent anti-politics, where a person’s use of language and the purity of their thinking matters more than confronting collectively the material conditions and social relations under which they are forced to live. It creates a simulation of political struggle - one that doesn’t merely fail to challenge the material inequality and unfreedom of late capitalism, but fundamentally aligns with the dynamics and interests of its atomised, spectacle-driven society. It is a perfect mirror of consumerism, playing-upon the individual’s desires for real freedom, only to perpetuate and prettify the conditions of their alienation.

William Turnbull ‘Leaves, Blue’, 1967

Erase identity & sit under a tree

I owe it to myself to reunite who I am with who I’m capable of being

Me, a disgraced academic turned farmer, surveying my crops: Finally… I am out standing in my field

Some of you really be like “females are socialized to be empathetic so it is my duty to be cruel!” and I think you would benefit from reading a book or joining a knitting club instead