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Clouds. Unkashū. v.2. 1903.

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Water lily harvesting in Bangladesh (2016) ph. Zakir Hossain Chowdhury

A hora da Estrela (Suzana Amaral, 1985)

Honestly hate it when MLs and anarchists treat their cute little ideologies as insular sectarian cliques. Yeah I’m sure you and your five friends who are hostile to other revolutionaries and the masses themselves and don’t attempt any tenant or labor organizing and look down on all non-liberal forms of protest or militancy are gonna convince the masses to take giant risks that might destroy their lives based on hostility and vibes alone.

Nobody is becoming a revolutionary if they don’t believe such a thing is possible which they absolutely won’t believe if they don’t have smaller victories like unionization and wage increases to point to. Your job is to build their confidence, which also protects you. You’re already a target so make yourself a bigger one and become so indispensable in your community that people defend you when the state and fascists attack you and try to smear you as a socialist or anarchist of some variety.

If you’ve already helped them win gains in their lives, they will protect you and that’s our only protection in this world. “Why are they attacking these people who help us” is what you want. Otherwise no one will know or care about the abuses you endure trying to change the world. It also backs up your ideology. If you’re the union steward and the office commie and you’ve helped win gains for the masses around you, that’s gonna convince people maybe you’re right.

If you want to be irrelevant and alone and lose, then yeah treat revolution like a clique of the already initiated that requires nothing from you but smugness and the occasional protest. Which sounds like cult shit to me but you know I guess a lot of fringe ideologues treat their beliefs like secret knowledge outsiders simply cannot understand.

The limits of the liberal imagination are going to get us all killed

were you able to move to nyc?

no idr planning to. but, for the longest time I did wanna move to Montreal

notice when you take a deep breath in a moment of pleasure and happiness how it lengthens that moment and becomes a heightened sensation of awareness

Kedarnath Temple caught against the backdrop of the Himalayas lit by the last rays of the sun.

The Afro Blues Quintet Plus 1 – Discovery 3 (1967)