The US and its closest allies have been the dominant powers in the world since the end of WWII. Their power is increasingly slipping, but there's no clear alternative yet, from a capitalist standpoint.
What does that mean for the revolution?
https://open.substack.com/pub/petergelderloos/p/geopolitics-for-2024?r=1p5cit&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
how to imagine a revolution anymore. Once we get through the early moments of revolution in which we can carry ourselves solely on passion, spontaneous intelligence, and our own tactical innovation, we have not imagined what steps to take next."
~ @PeterGelderloos
“About twenty years ago
a young me
barely past a kid
took a bullet
and no one heard the shot.
Just white noise.
They say
don’t take it personal
But it is fucking personal.”
A poem about illness and long term social murder by @PeterGelderloos
[Paid subscription, but the recording is available: https://petergelderloos.substack.com/p/twenty-years-ago-somebody-pulled]
Twenty years ago somebody pulled the trigger to a bullet with my name on it. They say that triggermen get locked up. That the cops are there to stop these things. The person who pulled the trigger on my bullet would have the cops there in one minute if I stepped on his fucking lawn. The person who pulled the trigger on my bullet has pulled the trigger…
Just let it ebb and flow, they say casually completely unaware of the immense labor of the tides a heaving of lungs a bellow to feed the flame of a world caught between sun and moon and bleeding out but never done ebbing and flowing enormous Just a few things for you to contemplate this week
Cameras Everywhere, Safety Nowhere
Why Police Body Cameras Won’t Make Us Safer
"We know that police violence is a real problem in the #US, and it makes sense that people are strategizing ways to protect themselves and their loved ones from being assaulted or murdered by the police. Many who are concerned about this issue have begun advocating for police to wear video cameras on their uniforms.
The idea is that cameras will prevent police violence, or at least hold officers accountable after the fact. Groups like Campaign Zero (a reformist Black Lives Matter offshoot) and the American Civil Liberties Union are advocating this measure, and even police departments themselves, after initial resistance, have signed on. But the idea that more cameras translates to better accountability (however we define this) relies on a faulty premise.
Police get away with murder not because we don’t see it, but because they’re part of a larger system that tells them it’s reasonable to kill people. From lawmakers, judges, and prosecutors to juries, citizens, and the media, every level of society uncritically supports and transmits the police point of view. In this atmosphere, police can murder with no fear of repercussions."
Watch the iron glow
I don't know if this is nerd erotica, but it's definitely about blacksmithing, technology, and redemption.
Give it a read and tell me what you think.
I test the end of the iron rod sticking out of the glowing furnace. It’s gentle. I grasp it and slide my hand forward until I start to feel the heat, just like he taught me. On other stages of this work, I’ll need to grip it with the tongs, but for now it’s just so, vulnerable, close, flesh on iron.
@Radical_EgoCom @joriki The @PeterGelderloos essay that comes up in that search is really good!
"Justice requires us to view human conflicts in inhuman terms. Those of us involved in an incident of social harm must remove ourselves from the space of its resolution, we must vacate our personal emotional needs to make room for the imposition of an objective solution we have no part in crafting and no choice but to consent to. We must sympathize against our own interests. Justice is self-betrayal. Given the common elements of justice as a unifying concept and given that the contestations of social justice generally seek to change the forms or spirit of institutional justice, social contestations regarding justice are thus an invitation to betrayal."
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