thinking about how the burning of the library of alexandria is remembered as the most prominent historical symbol of the destruction of knowledge…but that’s nothing compared to the thousands of entire languages killed in America and Australia by the colonialists…
To put an extremely fine point on this excellent paragraph: language is knowledge in non-literate cultures. This is why language reclamation is always at the top of the list for where to spend our limited resources in Native America.
You know you can talk all the shit you want about Madoka Magica, but you have to admit that the Meduka Meguca memes gave us so many valuable phrases and ways to express important emotions and concepts.
this post is “MY CITY NOW” erasure and i wont stand for it
Much Ado About Nothing is a play which ends with the line ‘for man is a giddy thing, and this is my conclusion’. Which basically translates as ‘people are dumb, the end.’
If it’s good enough for Shakespeare it’s good enough for me.