#materialist — Public Fediverse posts
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I think many of the difficulties in maintaining relationships as an autistic and/or AuDHD adult have a lot to do with how gender is perceived and the social norms around it. I'm a hijabi Muslim woman in Indonesia. There's a lot of expectation in my own culture for women like me.
My one and only non-platonic relationship as an adult was with my ex-fiancé. He's also AuDHD, like me. But a lot of his issues were more about him being socialised as a man his whole life than about his neurodivergence. So he never had issues with outsourcing emotional labour elsewhere. Since he was engaged to me at the time, I did the emotional work twice over for both of us in the relationship. We came from different backgrounds. He's American. I'm Indonesian. He was racist and didn't even know it. I kept pointing it out to him, but he didn't think he was racist. Clearly, as the only adult and politically literate one with integrity in the relationship, I had to end it.
If there is one thing I learned from my failed relationship and years of therapy, it is that relationships, platonic and non-platonic, don't have to be complicated. In the end, our disability and trauma are our responsibility to manage, and we have to make things work for the relationships that we want to keep. The details of "managing and making things work" are more or less about our communication, our willingness to be in the relationship, and our own principles not to compromise our morality or values (in my case anyway). But that's just me.
Another thing I should point out is that disability cannot be separated from structural issues. In the global power structures of racial capitalism, whiteness and its variants across the globe set the field people are moving in, and when white people don't name that, they end up universalising their experience. I just wish more of them named the exact difficulties they experienced in maintaining relationships as adults. Otherwise, being the dominant group on the internet, either on big tech platforms or on the fediverse, they end up universalising their experience.
It can be alienating when you have been conditioned to think in terms of exceptionalism and hyperindividualism your whole life. Try to be more structurally aware. Perhaps you'll see more similarities with others around you than you would if you avoided naming the exact reasons for the difficulties in maintaining relationships. Working on your trauma and navigating your disabilities don't make structural violence disappear. Poverty may persist when you are surrounded by better company. Racism and structural misogyny may still persist the moment you have a better paying job, a better partner, or are surrounded by better friends.
Stop individualising structurally engineered problems. Start having class consciousness.
But hey, that's just me.
#actuallyautistic #audhd @autistics @actuallyadhd
#materialist #disabilityjustice #neurodivergence @disability #disability #relationships #autism -
A quotation from Aldous Huxley
States function as smoothly as they do, because the greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.
Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) English novelist, essayist and critic
Essay (1927-10), “A Note on Eugenics,” Proper Studies (1927)More info about this quote: wist.info/huxley-aldous/79966/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #aldoushuxley #eugenics #humancondition #humannature #materialist #obedience #passivity #people #population #servitude
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A quotation from Aldous Huxley
States function as smoothly as they do, because the greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.
Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) English novelist, essayist and critic
Essay (1927-10), “A Note on Eugenics,” Proper Studies (1927)More info about this quote: wist.info/huxley-aldous/79966/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #aldoushuxley #eugenics #humancondition #humannature #materialist #obedience #passivity #people #population #servitude
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A quotation from Aldous Huxley
States function as smoothly as they do, because the greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.
Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) English novelist, essayist and critic
Essay (1927-10), “A Note on Eugenics,” Proper Studies (1927)More info about this quote: wist.info/huxley-aldous/79966/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #aldoushuxley #eugenics #humancondition #humannature #materialist #obedience #passivity #people #population #servitude
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A quotation from Aldous Huxley
States function as smoothly as they do, because the greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.
Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) English novelist, essayist and critic
Essay (1927-10), “A Note on Eugenics,” Proper Studies (1927)More info about this quote: wist.info/huxley-aldous/79966/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #aldoushuxley #eugenics #humancondition #humannature #materialist #obedience #passivity #people #population #servitude
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#USPol #Amerika Explainer . Used by the #beatniks #poets in the '60's to refer to the #capitalist #materialist #militarische #industrial #complex . The #hegemony that still exists #USA today. Still the #evil_empire as exemplified by #meta & #suckabuck The mighty $ . #notinmyname #antifa ✊🏾💖🕊💖🇪🇺 #Palky
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#USPol #Amerika Explainer . Used by the #beatniks #poets in the '60's to refer to the #capitalist #materialist #militarische #industrial #complex . The #hegemony that still exists #USA today. Still the #evil_empire as exemplified by #meta & #suckabuck The mighty $ . #notinmyname #antifa ✊🏾💖🕊💖🇪🇺 #Palky
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#USPol #Amerika Explainer . Used by the #beatniks #poets in the '60's to refer to the #capitalist #materialist #militarische #industrial #complex . The #hegemony that still exists #USA today. Still the #evil_empire as exemplified by #meta & #suckabuck The mighty $ . #notinmyname #antifa ✊🏾💖🕊💖🇪🇺 #Palky
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#USPol #Amerika Explainer . Used by the #beatniks #poets in the '60's to refer to the #capitalist #materialist #militarische #industrial #complex . The #hegemony that still exists #USA today. Still the #evil_empire as exemplified by #meta & #suckabuck The mighty $ . #notinmyname #antifa ✊🏾💖🕊💖🇪🇺 #Palky
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#USPol #Amerika Explainer . Used by the #beatniks #poets in the '60's to refer to the #capitalist #materialist #militarische #industrial #complex . The #hegemony that still exists #USA today. Still the #evil_empire as exemplified by #meta & #suckabuck The mighty $ . #notinmyname #antifa ✊🏾💖🕊💖🇪🇺 #Palky
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#Epicurus, the precursor to #Lucretius in the #materialist #philosophical tradition, believed that we need knowledge only because without it we are unhappy. I find it wonderful that following one's curiosity to bring oneself #joy is fundamental to the roots of the Western philosophical tradition that led to #science.
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Our colleague @sbockmeyer together with @StefanSchreiber and Sabine Neumann is organising a conference on »Looking at Things Differently - New #Materialist Approaches in #Archaeology«. In case you have missed the CfP so far—send your abstract to [email protected] until 31 December!
The conference is a cooperation between the #LEIZA, the #AGTiDA the Marburg Centrum Antike Welt and us. It will be in Mainz, 20-21 March 2025. For more information go to https://www.agtida.de/category/tagungen/call-for-papers/
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@cjpaloma Many in #materialist #capitalist #societies have lost sight of the #Mazlov #hierarchy of #needs. Some are duped by the #hex of #consumer #propaganda, some are just not aware & the #elite few positively revel in living #life at the #expense of #others ✊🏽
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An interview with the creators of ‘Literally No Place’, Daniel Felstead and Jenn Leung, is available here:
'“Our side quest was to try and offer a different perspective on #ai one that doesn't treat it as, like, some kind of saviour or looming apocalypse,” they explain. “We wanted to present AI as this, like, twisted reflection of our present moment, in all its unhinged, horrific, and glorious wonder.”
They cite Kate Crawford's #AtlasofAI as an influence. For a different (less zombie #materialist) take on AI and Crawford's book, see here:
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Dean Dettloff (#Marxist #Christian, https://deandettloff.com/) writes in response to having just watched the #Hillsong #documentary. He calls for a #materialist critique of #Evangelicalism.
I agree. It would be a valuable project in more ways than one.
Screengrabs below from the birdsite. (apologies if that offends :blobaww:)
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All my homies dismiss #idealism. #Materialist gang rise up
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The Second Thought YouTube channel continues to be one of the best resources for examining our society from a materialist perspective.
#SecondThought #leftist #materialist #socialist #socialism #CulturalCritique #politics #economics
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CW: Conversion therapy, Pagan spirituality
I've seen a lot of discourse about hypothetically "curing" #transgender, which stems from a #materialist fallacy of viewing #LGBT people as having "medical conditions" — or as the more extreme like to say, of LGBT people being *diseases*.
"What makes #ConversionTherapy immoral is that it doesn't work," they argue, implying that a successful method to eradicate us would somehow be "moral". 1/x
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It’s a important to remember the immaterial bases of #fascism. #WilhelmReich watched the rise of Nazism in real time, and #socialist attempts to counter it. The experience convinced him a purely #materialist opposition wasn’t enough. Understanding of the psychopathologies underpinning the orientations is vital, and developing strategies to address them. The challenge is magnified in an era of instant mass communication. But Reich’s lessons remain valuable.