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December 4 - December 11, 2024
The first step in liquidating a people…is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long the nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was. The world around it will forget even faster. Milan Kundera
We cannot let the committed battle of thousands of people, many to their deaths, be falsely naturalized into America “coming around.� No one with power in America “comes around.� They always have to be forced into positive change. But in this case, many of the people who forced them are dead.
Do they wonder why there are so few sixty-year-old versions of themselves passing by on the sidewalk?
“Even freaks need homes, countries, language, communication. The only characteristic freaks share is our knowledge that we don't fit in. Anywhere. It is for you, freaks my loves, I am writing and it is about you. Since humans enjoy moralizing, over and over again they attack us. Language presupposes community. Therefore without you, nothing I say has any meaning.�
