@daliwali brother. i hope you have read the entry properly lol, i am in agreement with that statement and very frustrated that everybody irl is still giving attention to "burgerland politics".
"Delegating these scarce resources extremely intentionally is of the utmost imperative, as much of them has been squandered on overindulging in meaningless knowledge". You're right. With almost 200 countries in the world, it's impossible to know everything about everything, so we must choose where to invest our attention.
I'm still learning. But it's hard to know what is meaningless knowledge and what isn't, and sometimes we mistake one for the other. Interesting reading!
i find that mainstream liberalism conflates constant spectatorship of US news with being "politically engaged," but idk how dutiful or sustainable it is to constantly saturate oneself with american political theatre that's deliberately vapid. idk. i sympathize with the urge for nonamericans to keep up with the US, but those of us in the belly of the beast owe it to them to not give in to our own sensationalism
@nate you’re not at fault for facing difficulties! i make the same mistakes, and unfortunately have tried many times over to write about the countries mentioned, but was heavily limited by american framing, and so i gave up. as a non american, that framing is something i seek to “undo”
@reyn appreciate yours & nate’s thoughts! yes the pressure to keep up 100% is very unrealistic. if we were honest with ourselves, we would realize that we place some news on higher importance than others. a recalibration of these priorities is much needed especially if we consider ourselves leftist and aim to fully live by those principles
there should be no reason why burgerland politics affects you in █████████ yet somehow you give a shit, why? american psyops are #1 in the world
@daliwali brother. i hope you have read the entry properly lol, i am in agreement with that statement and very frustrated that everybody irl is still giving attention to "burgerland politics".
i did not take nothing away from 328 pages of orientalism
"Delegating these scarce resources extremely intentionally is of the utmost imperative, as much of them has been squandered on overindulging in meaningless knowledge". You're right. With almost 200 countries in the world, it's impossible to know everything about everything, so we must choose where to invest our attention.
I'm still learning. But it's hard to know what is meaningless knowledge and what isn't, and sometimes we mistake one for the other. Interesting reading!
"i do not want to be the internet’s definition of a better leftist, but my own definition of a better human being." so fucking good.
i find that mainstream liberalism conflates constant spectatorship of US news with being "politically engaged," but idk how dutiful or sustainable it is to constantly saturate oneself with american political theatre that's deliberately vapid. idk. i sympathize with the urge for nonamericans to keep up with the US, but those of us in the belly of the beast owe it to them to not give in to our own sensationalism
@nate you’re not at fault for facing difficulties! i make the same mistakes, and unfortunately have tried many times over to write about the countries mentioned, but was heavily limited by american framing, and so i gave up. as a non american, that framing is something i seek to “undo”
@reyn appreciate yours & nate’s thoughts! yes the pressure to keep up 100% is very unrealistic. if we were honest with ourselves, we would realize that we place some news on higher importance than others. a recalibration of these priorities is much needed especially if we consider ourselves leftist and aim to fully live by those principles