Laffy
Via Melissa Murray:
She's been saying this for a long time. You're delusional if you think banning birth control is off the table.
Biden-Harris HQ:
Top Trump supporter Marsha Blackburn says Griswold v. Connecticut is “constitutionally unsound”
(Griswold v. Connecticut is the 1965 Supreme Court ruling that legalized birth control)
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
Yes and yes, but not quite:
1) There is no effective right to privacy anymore, after the FISA ruling, unless you "rip out" your Internet line and lose your mobile.
https://press.coop/@thehill/112287517500737885
2) The real game plan of the #Christofascists is this, even though I doubt that many of them will have read the books.
(I think I'm missing out on two.)
Quiz time:
Who is the only author with two novels in this dystopian Venn diagram? 😉
(W/O looking it up, OFC!)
Philip Cardella
@GottaLaff interestingly it only functionally legalized birth control.
What is really did was codify our right to *privacy*.
In this day in age try to imagine if we had NO RIGHT to privacy.
I've long thought that's what they're really after.
They really very much want the world of 1984.
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
You got it Philip 👍
I never thought that all these #SciFi novels would become a script for the autocrats and superrich. Especially not all at once.
Philip Cardella
@HistoPol @GottaLaff Orwell.
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
Brave new world is by #AldousHuxley.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_New_World
@philip_cardella @GottaLaff
Obot 50549535 🌺
@HistoPol @philip_cardella @GottaLaff
Brave new world and animal farm?
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
@philip_cardella @obot50549535 @GottaLaff
👍
Animal farm is not #SciFi but a political satire mixed with a fable, I'd say.
Philip Cardella
@obot50549535 @HistoPol @GottaLaff 1984 and Animal Farm are both by Orwell.
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
#Politics #SciFi #US #Literature
(1/2)
The content fits in quite nicely. In fact, apart from the plutocrats/kleptocrats/autocrats, the rot in society is sztongest among politicians, maybe even more do in the US, who also wanted to be a beacon of hope for democracies around the globe:
"...Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched...
@obot50549535 @GottaLaff
Philip Cardella
@HistoPol @obot50549535 @GottaLaff I certainly think that's true. It may get lumped in here because scifi does the heavy lifting on political commentary right now.
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
@philip_cardella @obot50549535 @GottaLaff
#Politics #SciFi #US #Literature
(2/2)
...refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
If it weren't so tragic, I'd currently be choking on my hysterical laughter, figuratively speaking.
//
Source:
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
@philip_cardella @carturo222 @obot50549535
(2/n)
Yes,
however in contrast to the fantasy genre (Conan, Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones), science fiction is always based on (sometimes imaginary) science, even a similar saga, #PlanetOfTheApes.
In fact, there is one dystopian book missing, which impressed me a lot reading 📚 it in high school, which is most definitely not #SciFi, #WilliamGolding's #LordOfTheFlies: he elegantly...
Philip Cardella
@carturo222 @HistoPol @obot50549535 @GottaLaff I mean, they're all dystopian.
Philip Cardella
@carturo222 @HistoPol @obot50549535 @GottaLaff I don't mind putting that book in this group. I think it belongs.
Arturo Serrano 🇨🇴🤖👽🧙🦄
@HistoPol @philip_cardella @obot50549535 @GottaLaff
If political theory is a science, Orwell is definitely SF.
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
@philip_cardella @carturo222 @obot50549535
(3/n)
...disects the laughably thin layer of civilization that we have accumulated since the Stone Age.
In contrast, Orwell's #AnimalFarm never strives to scientifically explain why the animals on the Farm behave like human beings because it is an ancient way of telling a fairy tale. It isn't even fantasy (no magic weapon with which a quest to fulfill, etc.,) but a modern fairy tale used to show society...
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
@philip_cardella @carturo222 @obot50549535
(4/n)
...their (spitting) mirror image how defunct and amoral it had become.
There are probably more novels like this, I just can't think of any right now. (And, no, H.G. Wells' "The Island of Dr. Moreau" is #SciFi #Horror, neither fantasy, nor sci-fi. 😉)
But, hell yes, it does belong!
There are even several others that definitely would need to be added to this...
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
@philip_cardella @carturo222 @obot50549535
(5/5)
...phalanx of prime negative #utopian, I think (and once had a list of in a Mastodon post,) in particular #TheMatrix, and Asimov's #TheCompleteRobot.
(There are some others I mentioned in this thread/convo of mine, https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/109894787077782438).
[If I find that list again, I'll post an update right here.]
//
Philip Cardella
@HistoPol @carturo222 @obot50549535 Lord of the Flies certainly belongs in the graphic. I'd say given the numeric constraints it'd be the last book out if you will.
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
#Dystopias #SciFi
(6/n)
Actually, giving it a second round of contemplation, though not chronologically, but evolutionarily speaking, the #LordOfTheFlies points to the root of all evil: humanity. It is the philosophical antipode of #JeanJacqueRouseau's concept of a "noble savage."
No, savages are not noble, they are just savage, they fight for their survival every day and every hour. And, I daresay from what I have read as a layman, not an...
@carturo222 @obot50549535
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
@philip_cardella @carturo222 @obot50549535
(7/n)
...anthropologist: homo sapiens has literally exterminated any other human being (like the Neanderthals) that might have become dangerous. Collectively, not individually, humans carry the seed of their own destruction in them.
Now, that we have "conquered the earth," have destroyed any number of wild animals that might have threatened us significantly, so that they became extent, we have been turning on each other in...
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
@philip_cardella @carturo222 @obot50549535
(8/n)
...endless and ultimately senseless wars, brothers against brothers (#WarInUkraine,) and neighbor against neighbor (MiddleEastWar.)
Conclusion:
The Lord of The Flies doesn’t only belong in the Venn diagram, it actually should be the cornerstone of a 3D version to be constructed. (That'd be something for my friend @mina sci-fy pro and math wizard 😉.)
"In his Discourse on the Inequality Among Men (1755), [#Rousseau]...
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
@philip_cardella @carturo222 @obot50549535
(8/n)
...argues that humans are naturally good, and that injustice is caused by civil society." 1)
While the latter is true, the former assumption is incorrect, as I have tried to show by means of the extinction-level events we humans have been bequeathing on our genetic brethren, and the animals in our garden that we should have been taking care of, as well as the..
1)
https://people.tamu.edu/~sdaniel/Rousseau%20Social%20Contract.pdf
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
@philip_cardella @carturo222 @obot50549535
(9/n)
...essence from #Golding's Lord of the Flies.
#Aristotle had a more balanced view, namely that..."no individual is born good or evil, it is in their choice during their lifetime to be moral or immoral." 2)
While also true, it misses the point of an adverse environment that will break almost anybody, except for some exceptional people like #AlexeiNavalny (#АлексейАнатольевичНавальный,) ...
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
@philip_cardella @carturo222 @obot50549535
(10/n)
...who are unbreakable.
I'm adding to these original thoughts the idea that we, as a race, carry our own seed of destruction within us.
We, as a society, were never really able to shake off the vestiges of that ignoble savage within us that served us so well while life was "uncivilized."
Now, this savagery turns ever more against us.
I mean, the...
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
@philip_cardella @carturo222 @obot50549535
(11/n)
...#climate is completely out of "control," and we continue to fight in wars, and even better, start new ones almost every year?
We humans, collectively, are still the savages that we havr always been.
But in contrast to the fairytale, The Emperor's New Clothes, our clothes are not imaginary but costumes that mask our savage nature. It is but a thin veil.
//
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
Yes. And I read legal analysis in that vein as early as the same month that #RoeVsWade was overturned that saw that as their strategy
Clark Valentine
@GottaLaff Trajectory will be similar to abortion. Overturn the scotus ruling, claim to let the states decide, finally move to use comstock or similar to functionally ban it nationwide
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
@bronakins
💯 %
And the reason they're doing it is the #GreatReplacementTheory*: not nearly enough "white babies" are being born.
Watch The #HandmaidsTale (again.) This is what is ultimately coming for you.
*
https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/110270619004578865 (last paragraph)
BronMason For Kamala 2024
“LEGALIZED BIRTH CONTROL”
ATTENTION Younger folks — let that sink in! You probably assumed birth control was always legal … because why wouldn’t it be?
It took a Supreme Court decision in the 1965 legalize birth control for MARRIED women; it wasn’t available to unmarried women until another Supreme Court case in 1972!
Now Republicans want to turn back the clock to make birth control illegal again — taking away women’s health choices even more than when they got the right to abortion reversed.
The ONLY thing women can do to fight this is vote for Democratic candidates at every level of government — but particularly in Federal elections. Gove Biden/Harris the majorities in the House and Srnate they need to pass Federal laws to protect our freedom of choice.
#choice #abortion #birthcontrol
gentrifiedrose
@davidarnell @_L1vY_ @bronakins @GottaLaff My mom was earning $3 an hour when I was in kindergaten, not a great salary but she owned her own beater car and rented a small town home. I am prohibited from renting a studio apartment because it is more than 3 times my salary which is $50k.
WallOffTrump
@gentrifiedrose @_L1vY_ @bronakins @GottaLaff Houses WERE 20,000 when I bought first house in 72. My pay was 10,000 so house was 2x salary. Today where I live in Nanaimo BC, average income is 40,000 - average house price is 640,000 so 16x salary. Average down payment is 1.5x salary. I do not get how any new buyer can survive.Banks are just giving longer & longer mortgages squeezing more interest and making fortunes for the rich. Time to buy pitchforks, I guess.
gentrifiedrose
@_L1vY_ @bronakins @GottaLaff We rolled back rights for "illegals", the middle class who have incomes between $80k-200 live pay check to paycheck, a grad degree is near worthless in some cases and 50% of the US lives in or near poverty. Our rights are always at risk and most of us vote against our own interests for the interests of the ruling class.
Mother Bones
I grew up in an era where women were newly blinking in the amazing sudden light of legalized birth control and abortion rights.
It was very much a time of excitement for the future where we would all finally be free to make our own choices, having come out of a long dark chamber of repression, control, and danger.
It has never been a given and that must never be forgotten.
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