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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 -
How to stop the far-right Alternative for Germany
This leaflet was distributed on September 12 at the “Sterndemonstration” in Berlin—organised by an alliance of 80 organisations…
#Germany #DE #Europe #EU #Europa #afd #austerity #fascism #Hitler #militarism #Nazi #Rearmament #right-wingextremism #War
https://www.europesays.com/germany/90510/ -
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
www.anphoblacht.com/contents/28828 -
Learn about forever wars:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_war
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Why Do You Boast, Great Warrior?
A Peace Reflection on Psalm 52
“Why do you boast about your crimes, great warrior?
Don’t you realize God’s justice continues forever?”
—Psalm 52:1There is something startlingly contemporary about that question.
Why do you boast, great warrior?
The psalm does not merely condemn violence. It confronts the strange human tendency to celebrate it.
We make monuments to conquerors.
We name weapons after predators.
We decorate generals.
We create highlight reels of explosions.
We speak of “dominance,” “strength,” “shock and awe,” “victory,” and “crushing the enemy.”And sometimes the destruction itself becomes evidence of greatness.
Look what we can do.
Look how powerful we are.
Look how afraid others are of us.
Psalm 52 interrupts that boasting with an uncomfortable question:
Why?
Why boast about something that destroys what God loves?
Why brag about the ability to kill?
Why measure greatness by the number of enemies defeated rather than the number of enemies reconciled?
Why are nations proud of weapons capable of destroying cities but embarrassed by diplomacy, compromise, mercy, and restraint?
The psalm was written in a world in which rulers demonstrated their greatness through military power. Kings conquered territory, displayed captives, erected monuments, and told stories about their victories.
In many ways, we have not changed very much.
Our monuments are sometimes digital now.
Missile footage.
Drone-camera images.
Maps showing territory captured.
Military parades.
Defense budgets.
Weapons demonstrations.
Politicians promising to be “tough.”
Commentators speaking casually about bombing places most of us will never visit and people we will never meet.
War becomes abstract.
The enemy becomes a category.
And human beings disappear behind words like targets, assets, combatants, collateral damage, and acceptable losses.
Psalm 52 insists that God sees through all of that language.
Behind every map is somebody’s home.
Behind every casualty figure is a name.
Behind every destroyed building was a room where someone ate breakfast, tucked a child into bed, argued with a spouse, celebrated a birthday, prayed, laughed, worried, and dreamed.
This is one of the essential tasks of peacemaking:
to restore the human face to those whom violence has reduced to categories.
Psalm 52 contrasts two different understandings of power.
One is the power of the “great warrior”—the power to threaten, manipulate, deceive, dominate, and destroy.
The other is far quieter:
the steadfast love of God.
The psalmist eventually says:
“But I am like an olive tree, thriving in the house of God.
I will always trust in God’s unfailing love.”What an extraordinary alternative image.
Not a sword.
Not a fortress.
Not a chariot.
Not an army.
A tree.
A living thing.
Rooted.
Growing.
Providing shade.
Bearing fruit.
An olive tree, of all things—the source of the olive branch that would eventually become one of humanity’s great symbols of peace.
Perhaps there are two ways to imagine greatness.
One asks:
How much power can I accumulate?
The other asks:
How much life can I nurture?
One asks:
How many enemies can I defeat?
The other asks:
How many enemies can become neighbors?
One builds walls.
The other builds tables.
One produces fear.
The other produces trust.
One leaves ruins.
The other plants trees.
And Psalm 52 makes another important claim:
Violence does not get the final word.
“God’s justice continues forever.”
Empires rarely believe this.
Every empire imagines itself permanent.
Every dictator thinks the palace will remain standing.
Every warlord believes fear will preserve power.
Every weapons system promises security.
But history is littered with the ruins of people who once believed they were invincible.
The psalm reminds us that brute force is spectacular but temporary.
Love is quieter and much more stubborn.
A bomb can destroy a house in seconds.
It takes years to build a community.
A bullet can end a life instantly.
It can take generations to heal the hatred that produced it.
Violence is fast.
Peace is patient.
Which may be one reason humanity so often chooses violence.
Violence gives the illusion of immediate results.
Peace requires imagination.
Negotiation.
Listening.
Justice.
Reconciliation.
Repentance.
Forgiveness.
Courage.
And time.
Yet Jesus places himself squarely within this alternative understanding of power.
Blessed are the peacemakers.
Love your enemies.
Pray for those who persecute you.
Put away your sword.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
The first shall be last.
The greatest shall be servant of all.
Again and again, Jesus overturns our normal measurements of strength.
The cross itself becomes Christianity’s ultimate critique of domination.
Rome believed the cross demonstrated imperial power.
Jesus transformed it into a revelation of self-giving love.
The empire said:
This is what we can do to you.
God answered:
And still I will love you.
That is a very different kind of power.
For those of us committed to peace, Psalm 52 therefore asks more than whether we personally commit acts of violence.
It asks what we admire.
What do we cheer?
What language do we tolerate?
What stories do we tell our children?
Who receives our monuments?
Whose courage do we celebrate?
Do we know the names of our generals better than the names of our peacemakers?
Perhaps part of building a culture of peace is learning to boast about different things.
Boast about the person who stopped a fight.
Boast about the diplomat who kept talking when everyone else wanted to walk away.
Boast about the conscientious objector who refused to kill.
Boast about the victim who chose restorative justice over revenge.
Boast about the community that welcomed refugees.
Boast about the activists who stood between opposing groups.
Boast about the teacher who taught children how to resolve conflict.
Boast about the soldier who refused an unlawful order.
Boast about the neighbor who crossed a political, racial, religious, or cultural boundary and made a friend.
Boast about the people planting olive trees in places where others would plant land mines.
Maybe that is one way we begin dismantling the myth of redemptive violence.
We change what we call heroic.
Psalm 52 asks:
“Why do you boast about your crimes, great warrior?”
Perhaps followers of Jesus should answer with another question:
What if greatness is not measured by our ability to destroy an enemy, but by our courage to make peace with one?
The warrior may have the louder story.
The missile may make the larger explosion.
The empire may dominate the headlines.
But somewhere beneath all that noise, God continues planting olive trees.
And God’s justice continues forever.
May we be found among those planting them.
#Anabaptism #biblicalReflection #BlessedAreThePeacemakers #ChristianEthics #ChristianPeacemaking #CultureOfPeace #Devotional #enemyLove #God #GodSJustice #gospelOfPeace #JesusAndPeace #Justice #LoveYourEnemies #mennonite #militarism #mythOfRedemptiveViolence #Nonviolence #OliveBranch #peace #peaceChurch #peaceTheology #PeaceGrooves #Peacemaking #Psalm52 #Psalms #Reconciliation #RestorativeJustice #scriptureReflection #SteadfastLove #Violence #WarAndPeace -
Richard Boyd Barrett Sounds Alarm on Government Plans to Reduce Controls on Arms Industry in Ireland
https://www.pbp.ie/richard-boyd-barrett-sounds-alarm-on-government-plans-to-reduce-controls-on-arms-industry-in-ireland/ -
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 -
Trump and the National Guard in DC
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#norrbotten #mismar #norrland #norrlandsparadoxen #militarism #försvaret #försvarsmakten
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