Notices by 🇪🇷Götterdämmerung (gotterdammerung@glitch.social)

@mekkaokereke This lack of historical awareness is a dangerous flaw, and allows manipulative leaders & corporate interests to operate without accountability at the cost of democracy & true freedom.
So, US of Amnesia enables a cycle of ignorance that serves powerful interests, ensuring the public remains complacent & complicit, unable to mount meaningful opposition to practices or policies that they barely understand let alone remember.

@mekkaokereke reinforces Gore Vidal's concept of the United States of Amnesia, the tendency to forget its own history, anything that challenges its idealized self-image. This collective amnesia prevents Americans from learning from past mistakes, leading to the repetition of errors in the form of misguided policies, unchecked imperialism & erosion of civil liberties.

@mekkaokereke Vidal said this cultural forgetfulness is both deliberate & convenient, encouraged by the political & media folks that prioritize entertainment & shallow patriotism over critical historical awareness. By not engaging with history, we perpetuate myths supporting the status quo, like how noble Susan B Anthony was, & keep citizens disconnected from the true events that shaped this country.

The Great American Season Finale (But Not Really)
Every 4 years, it's the same thing. Like clockwork. America, that big, sweaty beast, has a collective breakdown. The election season means signs in the yard & fists in the air. It's go-time for red, white, & blueface. It's the grand finale of democracy, that big, seasonal push to slap on bumper stickers & toss reason out the window. And for me, somehow on the outside, tho I'm still here, I live here, it's the best, trashiest show on Earth.

@mekkaokereke @jfmezei
I can't say I had "no choice." That's just a lie I tell myself to avoid responsibility. I chose them, the money, the security. Every day I stay, I'm choosing comfort over integrity. It's easier to pretend I'm bound, but in truth I'm complicit in every lie I live. Freedom is painful. It means facing that I am responsible even for this. If I stay, I must own that choice fully. Otherwise, I'm hiding from my own freedom & living in bad faith.

Good morning, & good news: I've finally published the third book of Pantheon.

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https://www.amazon.com/dp/1944854134

My first panel at San Diego Comic Con is today! 😍
#ComicCon #sdcc #2024
#deaf #deafrepresentation #Pantheon #PantheonGraphicNovel

@blogdiva

NEOLIBERALISM: the alchemy of transforming life into ledgers, austerity into an altar, and society into a battlefield; where the pursuit of profit sanctifies the revival of fascism.
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Fun Fact IV: No Democratic candidate for President has ever won the white vote since 1964.

#FunFact