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Do Not Forget.
The entire plot of Lord of the Flies was a bunch of dudes unable to do content moderation.
A maze
of misery
Girdles our
Trees of Liberty
killing at edges
vines of Bittersweet
climbing
choking
Hungry
thirst
siphoning
sources
while greed steals
our
sun
leaving us
to mire
in tangled darkness
at the door
of reclaimed
history
at edges
of society
a nasty force we
must uproot
hands dirty
in work
of getting
it done.
Here’s my new-ish #introduction for Mastodon:
Hey, I’m Ernie. I’m a writer and journalist and I’m best known for starting the Tedium newsletter. (https://tedium.co). I also run a secondary newsletter called MidRange (https://midrange.tedium.co).
I have run in a lot of circles over the years, but my primary interests are history, obscurities, and tech. I will talk about #politics sometimes—I have a poli-sci degree—but my focus is offbeat stuff.
I asked for a mix of Dada meets Dali because when in middle school I discovered a book called "Poetry between the Wars"
It really got me into poetry and shenanigans of Eastern European writers and poets (defined as East Germany, Poland etc)
And #NAFO is at its heart a theater of absurd of brain dead dogs raising money to buy bombs that fall on Russian soldiers.
It is Dada meets Dali.
disco thing h/t to all Russian literary critics and psychologists who gave rise to post modern thinking I read like Bakhtin, Kristeva, Vygotsky Leont'ev, Rubinstein.
Also "The One" of first beat in funk time scales.
Everyone chasing "the one" truth and missing "The One" Truth
The Dr. Suess is a h/t to teachers and a reminder of his work as a political; satirist and cartoonist.
My #NAFO pfp chosen for a very specific reason:
My pfp is chosen for a very specific reason and the phrase "tree of liberty"
People need to read the letter Jefferson wrote to Smith about Shay's Rebellion.
He was making fun of rebels. Not suggesting they were good.
Said they needed to be set right by the truth.
Hardy Schwamm
Craig Newmark
Ernie Smith