anyway it's funny in an interesting way how the internet turned Kafka into the sad boy with an existentialist + romantic flavour instead of the author of seminal works about alienation & the confusing, painful contrast between what society deems normal and what Isn't. how the rules that establish that divide aren't made clear, how to the marginalized they seem ever-changing, impossible to grasp, surreal to the point of despair.
if you've ever felt overwhelmed by the absurdity of a system that seems legitimately against you instead of for you, if you've had days or months or years where language or cultural barriers have made you feel wrong to your core, if you've dealt with so much stress or mental illness or abuse that you've struggled to recognize yourself in the mirror his work talks about your struggles and would probably speak to you
"the only reason why usher is playing at the Super Bowl is because gojo fans made him popular again" I'm sorry be soooo fr rn like use ur brain for 2 seconds and really think about that statement
In 10 years when we have Remembrance of the Palestine Genocide and we hold conferences on cultural fascism and necropolitics, I want y'all to remember that, across the world, black, brown, and beige children always suffer and suffocate under the weight and white gaze of imperialism.
So long as imperialism reigns, none of us are free.