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

@sapphire They taught you to fit neatly into time slots, to digest the palatable, discard the challenging & call it education. But coddling? No, that wasn't coddling. That was training you to mistake the bare minimum for good enough.
Unlearning is a brutal process, & where the real education starts, after you realize those lesson plans were more about compliance than curiosity.

Keep going.
The syllabus only gets messier from here.

Perfection is a silk noose & I know way too many hanging lifeless from it. They've allowed "perfect" to strangle "good" before it even took its first breath. Their excuses pile up endlessly:
I'm too busy
I'm burned out
It's not the right time
They wear burnout & overwhelm like badges of honor, proof of a noble struggle. But peel back the layers of self-pity & you'll find one thing.

Fear.

From: @Gotterdammerung
https://glitch.social/@Gotterdammerung/113839512661998255

The more you binge the endless scroll of curated brilliance, the more your critic bulks up into something grotesque, a shadow on steroids. What once filtered the bad ideas for the good morphs into a jealous god, choking every spark of originality in its fists. The action guy? Gone. Drowned in a tide of overthinking. The critic sits alone at the control panel, smug in its paralysis.

Your inner critic is the customs officer between ideas & actions. The one stamping "DENIED" on half your inspirations before they ever hit the conveyor belt. A necessary evil like brakes on a runaway train, except when the critic mutates into a petty tyrant. And what mutates the critic? Media. A 24/7 intravenous drip of other people's thoughts.

Consumption is the fuel for this mutation.

#critic #innercritic
#creativity

Just found out that the creator of CEO playing cards got their SM accounts taken down (IG, TikTok, YouTube) & their PayPal deactivated. Got in a discussion whether this was corporate power or government power.

This so-called "interplay" btw corps & govts isn't a partnership. It's a ventriloquist act. The govt lips don't even bother moving anymore cuz corps are perfectly capable of pulling the strings themselves. Welcome to Corporate Feudalism!

@drahardja the crossover we never asked for but somehow deserve.

Nothing says existential dread & parental trauma like a glowing red-and-yellow Eva Unit battling angels while everyone's clutching a Big Mac.

“Get in the robot, Shinji. And don’t forget your fries.”

Let's dissect the brilliance here. A billion dollar investment buys you a "fully expedited approvals & permits." That's code for "we're not even pretending to care about due process anymore."

Environmental approvals? Fergheddaboutit.

Who needs clean air & water when we've got a shiny new factory spitting out profits & carcinogens in equal measure?

Welcome to the age of the #kleptokakistocracy (govt by the worst people, for the benefit of the greediest).

Ah yes, the #president-elect's bold declaration: if you got a billion to burn, don't worry about pesky inconveniences like laws, environmental impact or ethics. Come on in! This isn't a policy. A red carpet rolled out for the ultrawealthy, with a flashing neon sign that reads:
RULES ARE FOR POOR PEOPLE
#KLEPTOKAKISTOCRACY
#Kakokleptocracy

@are0h fascism is when racism catches up with WhyPiPo

@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.

:blobcoffee:

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.
:blobrainbow:

Fun Fact IV: No Democratic candidate for President has ever won the white vote since 1964.

#FunFact