#militarism — Public Fediverse posts
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A Society of Discontents
Their purpose is to create a hole within you that never gets filled up.
The latest version of the newest model of the most recent rendition of the smartphone, TV, tablet, computer, or gadget is one that you cannot live without.
That is what they tell you.
The snap crackle pop of the latest pop music crackles with the static of love without commitment, fame without responsibility, an endless party while the world burns, shadow puppets on the stage.
Buy what I am selling, they say.
My house is bigger than yours. My tummy and butt are tighter. My penis is larger. My breasts are perfect. I have the face of a goddess. I am the perfect lover. I do not have ED or PE. My children are prodigies. My car is shiny. My vacations are dreamy. My investments are sound. I am more than financially secure. I am the Joneses times a million.
You can keep up, they say.
How dare anyone threaten this lifestyle? Missiles, drones, ships, jets, weapons of mass destruction, bombs smart and dumb, they can always come up with a reason, something or someone to fear, to launch destruction.
Aren’t you a patriot? They ask.
Fill it up. Take a long swig. Stuff your face, your pockets, your house, your shopping cart and grocery bags, with as much as it, they, you can hold.
Funny how it is never enough.
September 13, 2014
#Advertising #bodyImage #celebrityCulture #Comparison #consumerCulture #Consumerism #Contentment #culturalCritique #Discontent #eerieImage #emptiness #endlessDesire #envy #excess #falsePromises #fearAndControl #Greed #hollowSelf #longing #Materialism #mediaSaturation #militarism #neverEnough #Patriotism #POETICAORAREContemplativePoetryPrayers #SmartPhone #socialCritique #spectacle #SpiritualHunger #statusAnxiety #technologyAddiction #toxicCulture #warEconomy -
https://www.europesays.com/uk/1203101/ How to stop the far-right Alternative for Germany #AFD #austerity #EU #Europe #fascism #Germany #hitler #militarism #Nazi #rearmament #RightWingExtremism #War
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The tech oligarchs’ world-abandoning project
* "Most people have the capacity for awe, to gasp at the jeweled beauty of a songbird or the otherworldliness of a whale’s exhalation or the intricate latticework of an ancient holy site. Children have the capacity for pure awe; so do 90-year-old actors in suborbital space. To experience awe is to dissolve into the swirl of the universe, to feel small in the best way. This sense of interconnection is also why we grieve when we witness strangers suffering, and feel the great sorrow of extinction. The fact that this capacity seems to be missing from the men who hold our collective fate in their hands is a personal loss for them – and an existential crisis for the rest of us."
"We are up against an ideology that has given up not only on the premise and promise of liberal democracy but on the livability of our shared world – on its beauty, on its people, on our children, on other species. There is something treasonous in this. Treasonous not to an abstraction like a flag or a nation, for we are not nationalists. But treasonous to the unspoken pact made with the web of life that sustains us." >>
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/sep/13/end-times-fascists-essay* End Times Fascism
And the Fight for the Living World, Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor >>
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374621384/endtimesfascism/
#earthbound #home #biodiversity #fascism #SpaceColonisation #SettlerCulture #frontier #violence #BigTech #militarism #FarRight #OrganisedAbandonment #ClimateBreakdown #WorldAbandoningProject #OuterSpace #life #habitability #books -
The tech oligarchs’ world-abandoning project
* "Most people have the capacity for awe, to gasp at the jeweled beauty of a songbird or the otherworldliness of a whale’s exhalation or the intricate latticework of an ancient holy site. Children have the capacity for pure awe; so do 90-year-old actors in suborbital space. To experience awe is to dissolve into the swirl of the universe, to feel small in the best way. This sense of interconnection is also why we grieve when we witness strangers suffering, and feel the great sorrow of extinction. The fact that this capacity seems to be missing from the men who hold our collective fate in their hands is a personal loss for them – and an existential crisis for the rest of us."
"We are up against an ideology that has given up not only on the premise and promise of liberal democracy but on the livability of our shared world – on its beauty, on its people, on our children, on other species. There is something treasonous in this. Treasonous not to an abstraction like a flag or a nation, for we are not nationalists. But treasonous to the unspoken pact made with the web of life that sustains us." >>
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/sep/13/end-times-fascists-essay* End Times Fascism
And the Fight for the Living World, Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor >>
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374621384/endtimesfascism/
#earthbound #home #biodiversity #fascism #SpaceColonisation #SettlerCulture #frontier #violence #BigTech #militarism #FarRight #OrganisedAbandonment #ClimateBreakdown #WorldAbandoningProject #OuterSpace #life #habitability #books -
The tech oligarchs’ world-abandoning project
* "Most people have the capacity for awe, to gasp at the jeweled beauty of a songbird or the otherworldliness of a whale’s exhalation or the intricate latticework of an ancient holy site. Children have the capacity for pure awe; so do 90-year-old actors in suborbital space. To experience awe is to dissolve into the swirl of the universe, to feel small in the best way. This sense of interconnection is also why we grieve when we witness strangers suffering, and feel the great sorrow of extinction. The fact that this capacity seems to be missing from the men who hold our collective fate in their hands is a personal loss for them – and an existential crisis for the rest of us."
"We are up against an ideology that has given up not only on the premise and promise of liberal democracy but on the livability of our shared world – on its beauty, on its people, on our children, on other species. There is something treasonous in this. Treasonous not to an abstraction like a flag or a nation, for we are not nationalists. But treasonous to the unspoken pact made with the web of life that sustains us." >>
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/sep/13/end-times-fascists-essay* End Times Fascism
And the Fight for the Living World, Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor >>
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374621384/endtimesfascism/
#earthbound #home #biodiversity #fascism #SpaceColonisation #SettlerCulture #frontier #violence #BigTech #militarism #FarRight #OrganisedAbandonment #ClimateBreakdown #WorldAbandoningProject #OuterSpace #life #habitability #books -
The tech oligarchs’ world-abandoning project
* "Most people have the capacity for awe, to gasp at the jeweled beauty of a songbird or the otherworldliness of a whale’s exhalation or the intricate latticework of an ancient holy site. Children have the capacity for pure awe; so do 90-year-old actors in suborbital space. To experience awe is to dissolve into the swirl of the universe, to feel small in the best way. This sense of interconnection is also why we grieve when we witness strangers suffering, and feel the great sorrow of extinction. The fact that this capacity seems to be missing from the men who hold our collective fate in their hands is a personal loss for them – and an existential crisis for the rest of us."
"We are up against an ideology that has given up not only on the premise and promise of liberal democracy but on the livability of our shared world – on its beauty, on its people, on our children, on other species. There is something treasonous in this. Treasonous not to an abstraction like a flag or a nation, for we are not nationalists. But treasonous to the unspoken pact made with the web of life that sustains us." >>
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/sep/13/end-times-fascists-essay* End Times Fascism
And the Fight for the Living World, Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor >>
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374621384/endtimesfascism/
#earthbound #home #biodiversity #fascism #SpaceColonisation #SettlerCulture #frontier #violence #BigTech #militarism #FarRight #OrganisedAbandonment #ClimateBreakdown #WorldAbandoningProject #OuterSpace #life #habitability #books -
The tech oligarchs’ world-abandoning project
* "Most people have the capacity for awe, to gasp at the jeweled beauty of a songbird or the otherworldliness of a whale’s exhalation or the intricate latticework of an ancient holy site. Children have the capacity for pure awe; so do 90-year-old actors in suborbital space. To experience awe is to dissolve into the swirl of the universe, to feel small in the best way. This sense of interconnection is also why we grieve when we witness strangers suffering, and feel the great sorrow of extinction. The fact that this capacity seems to be missing from the men who hold our collective fate in their hands is a personal loss for them – and an existential crisis for the rest of us."
"We are up against an ideology that has given up not only on the premise and promise of liberal democracy but on the livability of our shared world – on its beauty, on its people, on our children, on other species. There is something treasonous in this. Treasonous not to an abstraction like a flag or a nation, for we are not nationalists. But treasonous to the unspoken pact made with the web of life that sustains us." >>
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/sep/13/end-times-fascists-essay* End Times Fascism
And the Fight for the Living World, Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor >>
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374621384/endtimesfascism/
#earthbound #home #biodiversity #fascism #SpaceColonisation #SettlerCulture #frontier #violence #BigTech #militarism #FarRight #OrganisedAbandonment #ClimateBreakdown #WorldAbandoningProject #OuterSpace #life #habitability #books -
“The Forces Mustered Against #Neutrality And For Militarisation Are Substantial, So Too Must The Opposition Be”
#SpéirGhorm #IrishNeutrality #Militarism #NATO #TripleLock #Ireland2026EU #Ireland
www.anphoblacht.com/contents/28828 -
“The Forces Mustered Against #Neutrality And For Militarisation Are Substantial, So Too Must The Opposition Be”
#SpéirGhorm #IrishNeutrality #Militarism #NATO #TripleLock #Ireland2026EU #Ireland
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Learn about forever wars:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_war
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Joydeb Roaja, “Generation Wish Yielding Trees and Atomic Tree 37”, 2021, ink pen on paper, 76 × 56 cm ★ Bangladesh ★ https://jhavericontemporary.com/artists/joydeb-roaja #JoydebRoaja #contemporarygraphics #antiwarartworks #notowar #militarism #malegaze #inkonpaper #JhaveriContemporary #Bangladeshiartists #2010s
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Iran’s Retaliation Reignites Discontent With US Military Bases in Middle East
The US spent decades building an empire of military bases throughout the Middle East. Now they’re under attack. -
Trump & Rubio: Cuba, Mexico, Colombia Could Be Next
https://consortiumnews.com/2026/01/05/trump-rubio-cuba-mexico-colombia-could-be-next/
Jake Johnson reports on the Progressive International declaration: “The ‘Trump corollary’ to the Monroe Doctrine is the single greatest threat to peace and prosperity that the Americas confront today.” By Jake Johnson Common Dreams U.S. President Donald Trump and top administration…
#Politics #AmericanEmpire #Colombia #Cuba #Fascism #ForeignPolicy #InternationalNewsAnalysis #Mexico #Militarism #CommunityOfLatinAmericaAndCaribbeanStates #DonroeDoctrine #JakeJohnson #MarcoRubio #MonroeDoctrine #PresidentClaudiaSheinbaum #PresidentGustavoPetro #PresidentNicolásMaduro #ProgressiveInternational #Trump #TrumpCorollary #Venezuela -
Today's = 1st 🎂 of article in International Affairs articulating #pacifist critique of reactions to Russian invasion of #Ukraine ➡️ https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiae275 #nonviolence #pacifism #war #Russia #militarism
Summary: 1/ asks whether military path worse than coordinated mass
#nonviolent civil disobedience 2/ exposes 2 ingrained assumptions (on efficacy of #violence, & violence in 'human nature') 3/ reflects on how war transforms agents of violence & entrenches 'warism'/militarism