OccuWorldMay 12, 2024

@egalitaire

domination systems are full of contradictions… but they can never be hammered into social shape in any meaningful or lasting way. we continue to fight these same battles for hundreds of years.

we should look beyond them to horizontally organized systems where these kinds of problems and their root cause (rewarding bad behavior) could not exist. much amazing work has already been done here.

cc: @paninid @DoomsdaysCW

Show threadDoomsdaysCWMay 12, 2024
@OccuWorld @egalitaire @paninid Personally, I think we should look to #IndigenousPeople for guidance. The problems with #Hierarchy, #Greed, #Colonialism and #Capitalism began relatively recently (700 BCE in my estimation). #Homer's #Odyssey is a guide for #conquering #IndigenousPeoples (and others) so that they can steal their land and use it for #monoculture. The Cyclops is an allegory for non-Achaean people that they conquered.
Show threadDoomsdaysCW
@OccuWorld @egalitaire @paninid I translated quite a bit of #Homer's #Odyssey myself, and was shocked at all the references to #Colonialism and how #Odysseus eyes the Cyclops' land as "prime real estate" and referred to them as primitives.
May 12, 2024 at 10:36pmWeb
Show threadCoach Pāṇini ®May 12, 2024

@DoomsdaysCW @OccuWorld @egalitaire

Reminder: Homer’s audience was oligarchs.

Show threadDoomsdaysCWMay 12, 2024
@paninid @OccuWorld @egalitaire Yup. Landowners who were the only ones with rights.
Show threadDoomsdaysCWMay 12, 2024
@paninid @OccuWorld @egalitaire Let me be more specific -- Athenian male landowners. Women and slaves did not have the right to own land.