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tanadrin · 2 months
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I liked this video from Jamelle Bouie a lot, and I liked it even more because he delivered it as a floating eyes and mouth over an apple.
I'm going to respond to this comment as an apple because I kind of like doing it. It's fun. And I'm gonna respond to this comment by way of a story.
So, all Americans know about the anti-slavery movement, the abolitionist movement. And the way we're taught about the abolitionist movement or the anti-slavery movement, whatever you want to call it, is kind of that this was inevitable--that obviously slavery is terrible and obviously there are people against it and it was gonna end. We teach it as a thing that was bound to happen. So the Civil War comes and slavery is ended, and it's sort of a very neat story.
But I'm gonna ask you to put yourself in the perspective of an abolitionist or an anti-slavery politician in, say, 1840 or 1848; and if you are one of these people, you have a deep-seated opposition to slavery. If you're an abolitionist, you may have spent the previous 10 or 20 years traveling the country, giving speeches, rallying people, doing everything you can to stir up moral outrage at slavery. If you're a politician, you have been working, doing a grind of politics--somewhat dangerous, because people may not like slavery, but they're not super thrilled about black people either--but you are in legislatures, you are filing petitions, you are building coalitions, you are trying to make whatever headway you can to, if not challenge slavery, then at least challenge some of the racist and anti-black laws that are on the books. Both--whether you're an anti-slavery politician or ablitionist--you do not think in 1848 that slavery is gonna be over in your lifetime. You hope that it might be; but you have no particular expectation that it will be. You are not optimistic about the end of slavery. You may not even be optimistic about the world as it exists, because you look around and you see human bondage and horrible brutality that's been there for hundreds of years, and for all you know will be there when you're long dead.
So the question to ask is, why do these things? Why did these people bother? Why did they continue struggling against slavery, despite not really having any optimism about the end of the institution? And the answer--beyond a deep-seated sense of moral commitment--is that these people didn't need to be optimistic in the ultimate outcome, they just needed to be optimistic in the ability of humans, of people to make change; they needed to be hopeful about human agency. That's what they needed, and that's what they had. And so they did not know how far they would be able to take the baton, but they worked and hoped that when the end of their lives came, they'd be able to hand it off to people who could take it even further than they could.
The abolitionists and the anti-slavery politicians were essentially living out what Antonio Gramsci called the pessimism of the intellect and the optimism of the will. I think the exact quote is, "I'm a pessimist because of my intelligence, but I am an optimist because of my will." What this is is recognizing the reality of the world around you, not looking at the world as if it's any better--or any worse--but any better than it is; but not pinning your hopes for a better world on some sort of linear change, linear move towards something better; but pinning your hopes on one of the true constants of human society, which is the ability of human beings to work their will on the world, and the ability of humans to push and persevere.
So, this is all to say that I am not asking anyone to be optimistic about the world. That's very silly; the world's a very terrible place right now--not the worst it could be, but pretty bad--and I do not contest that. But I do think that people should have a bit of this optimism of the will, and this optimism about human agency, and our ability to build a better world. And this is sort of where my very strong distaste for doomerism comes from, because the sense that it is the worst, and nothing can be better, is just fundamentally incompatible with any kind of optimism of the will, any kind of belief in human agency and belief in our ability to change the world around us. And it's also why you will find me on this account often pushing back against the most negative renderings of what is happening in our society, for example. Not because I think everything is great--I do not--but because I do think that the path towards change requires one to have clear eyes about the situation in which you find yourself; and clear eyes both means recognizing the bad, but it also means recognizing those areas where you can make gains, and where you can find success; and where you can win minor victories.
And you may say, well, what's the point of a minor victory? But I think what the anti-slavery struggle demonstrates, what the civil rights struggle demonstrates, what the labor struggle demonstrates in this country, is that minor victories become fuel for modest victories, become fuel for major victories, and major victories can be the things that fundamentally change the entire field of play. So. Pessimism of the intellect, my friend, optimism of the will.
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danidarkarts · 2 years
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In honor of Techno, he never will truly die
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yvehattan · 5 months
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A happy birthday Albert Camus!
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innerxsanctum · 2 months
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petshopboys - nonetheless
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jeansvoid · 1 year
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Many luz
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concernedape: you should experience 1.6 on a fresh save me, breaking open my perfection file to adopt several new cats: what
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hecklefreckled · 1 year
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Finnley doodles!
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5racha · 8 months
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Shownu x Hyungwon ✧ The Unseen Preview 01 Love Me A Little 02 Love Therapy 03 Roll With Me 04 Play Me 05 Slow Dance
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Peter 1: why does deadpool call you babygirl
Peter 3:
Peter 2:
Peter 1:
Peter 3: how about we stop talking for a little while
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dduane · 9 months
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Reblogging this for my old friend. :)
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enluv · 3 months
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OKAY FIRST OFF WHAT THE FREAK THANK YOU FOR 3.8K ?!?!?!?! I VERY MUCH APPRECIATE IT AND ALSO WILL BE POSTING SO MUCH VERY SOON FOR ALL OF YOU BABY ENLUVRS AND OLDER ENLUVRS ALIKE ! I LOVE YOU ALL 🫵🏽🤍 KISSES FR!!!! TIME TO CELEBRATE 😁‼️‼️‼️
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havensins · 9 months
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seeing tom holland get backshots on my twitter timeline was not expected
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niishi · 7 months
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I only ever comment on tiktok in order to change ppls perceptions of Sanji smh it's all so surface level one way or the other and then I hit them w the deep analysis and they're like "oh wait I never thought of it like that.. ur right".... What am I doing spending my time white knighting for Sanji smfh
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Mercer: So. Who broke it? I’m not mad. I just want to know.
Etienne: I did. I broke it…
Mercer: No. No, you didn’t. Brynjolf?
Brynjolf: Don’t look at me. Look at Delvin.
Delvin: What?! I didn’t break it.
Brynjolf: Huh. That’s weird. How did you even know it was broken?
Delvin: Because it’s sitting right in front of us and it’s broken!
Brynjolf: Suspicious.
Delvin: No, it’s not!
Vipir: If it matters, probably not… Sapphire was the last one to use it.
Sapphire: Liar! I don’t even drink that crap!
Vipir: Oh really? Then what were you doing by the coffee cart earlier?
Sapphire: I use the wooden stirrers to push back my cuticles. Everyone knows that, Vipir!
Etienne: Alright let’s not fight. I broke it, let me pay for it, Mercer.
Mercer: No. Who broke it?
Delvin: [whispering] Boss, Vex has been awfully quiet…
Vex: Really?!
Delvin: Yeah, really!
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Mercer: I broke it. I burned my hand so I punched it. I predict ten minutes from now, they’ll be at each other’s throats with warpaint on their faces and a pig head on a stick. Good. It was getting a little chummy around here.
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innerxsanctum · 1 month
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Loneliness (live) by Pet Shop Boys at Radio 2's Piano Room (February 2024).
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anthemofgvf · 8 months
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MY BOYSSSSS!
someone edit sam in there where did he run off to
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