“I should suppose that education was the curriculum one had to run through in order to catch up with oneself, and he who will not pass through the curriculum is helped very little by the fact that he was born in the most enlightened age.”
Two nieces, brother, and mother /
Family portraits made during my visit to Gaborone, Botswana, in July, 2022.
Where does it all lead to, this unending war waged by Power against the other authorities which society throws up? /
“In the destruction of all other command for the benefit of one alone–that of the state. In each man’s absolute freedom from every family and social authority, a freedom the price of which is complete submission to the state. In the complete equality as between themselves of all citizens, paid for by their equal abasement before the power of their absolute master–the state. In the disappearance of every constraint which does not emanate from the state, and in the denial of every pre-eminence which is not approved by the state. In a word, it ends in the atomization of society, and in the rupture of every private tie linking man and man, whose only bond is now their common bondage to the state. The extremes of individualism and socialism meet: that was their predestined course.”
"It's about the perception of men. It's about redefining what being a man is." /
“We know that men have been the problem for lo these many millennia.”
CBC Radio reporter Kiran Singh lets open misandry go unchallenged in today’s broadcast of CBC Radio’s Early Edition. If you’re not immediately outraged by Lichte’s claim, substitute the word “men” for “women,” “blacks,” “Jews,” or “gays” and read the statement out loud.
Whosoever champions speech has not power /
Power universally proscribes speech because it can. Only the powerless take refuge in “freedom of speech,” which is in fact illusory.