Plantations industrialised with capitalism.
Let's spin a sugary yarn 🧶

@economics @histodons @geography

#EstelleSays #sugar #tobacco #accumulation #racism #extractivism #landGrab #raceMaking #lineofColor #racialization #rapeCulture #systemicRacism #capitalism #whiteSupremacy #whiteFragility #Discovery #Encounter #Columbus #plantations #America #history #slavery #England #UnitedKingdom #GreatBritain #Bristol #Liverpool #London #decolonial #antiRacism #sweet #sweets #Caribbean #marketing #commOdon

‘It is not a Sunday in the countryside that we need, but a less artificial life.’
—Bernard Charbonneau, in « Le sentiment de la nature, une force révolutionnaire », 1937

It is our disconnection from nature that gives rise to the feeling that we lack something, that an essential part of our existence is missing.

@psychology @philosophy

#tourism #nature #wilderness #BienVivir #wellLiving #SilentSunday #ecology #ecologists #environmentalism #environmentalists #Charbonneau #BernardCharbonneau #postDevelopment #beliefs #degrowth #philosophy #quote #quotes #citation #citations #EstelleSays #technique #technoCriticism

Heterosexuality is a regime of political oppression 🧶

"Just as racism produces race and not the other way round, sexism produces sex through the relationship of domination that reduces the dominated to things or natural objects."
… said Natacha Chetcuti-Osorovitz summarizing Monique Wittig

#materialism #beliefs #subjugation #radicality #EstelleSays #materialistFeminism #naturalism #appropriation #sexism #heteroSexuality #saphism #heteroNormativity #feminisms #history #MoniqueWittig #Wittig #literature #homosexuality #lesbianism #feminism #internationalism #patriarchy #linguistics #writing #minorityStudies #universalism #queer #constructivism #antagonism #culturalHistory #lesbians

@broadwaybabyto
The hatred is not because of you.
I wonder if people were scared of diversity. Some may fight back.

"It turns out that, actually, most people are uncomfortable around social difference and get considerably less comfortable when you point it out."
Here is an article if you wish reading: https://observer.co.uk/news/first-person/article/laurie-penny-autism

#fragility #handicap #squash #EstelleSays

The monotheistic religions made it normal to squash people: "I think there is something really special about the Bible [...] which is precisely this idea that the revelation of truth comes through the suffering of the weak." (Matthieu Poupart)

Then the Renaissance made it easier to blame the victim: With modernity, "it is the person who takes no initiative who is seen as responsible for the emergence of sexual promiscuity." (Matthieu Poupart)

#EstelleSays #longThread 🧶

#truth #revelation #believe #beliefs #empathy #feminism #quotes #blameTheVictim #maleSupremacy #manliness #patriarchy #misogyny #relationships #sociology #religion #catholic #christianity #jewishness #jewish #squash #flatten #crush #agressions #agressive #agressivity #supremacy #rapeCulture #brutalization #modernity #Renaissance #history #intellectualHistory #historyOfHumanThought #historyOfPhilosophy #normal #normality #heteronormativity #weak #weakness #incest #incestCulture

François #Bayrou is the current Prime Minister of #France.

In 1996, violence was denounced in the elite catholic school of his constituency. He made an official visit as both the then Minister of National Education and a member of the National Assembly for a seat in Béarn (the province of the school). He told the regional press: "The people of Béarn felt these attacks with a sense of pain and a sense of injustice. […] All the checks were favourable and positive."

#EstelleSays 🧶

#Bétharram #availability #adult #family #adultDomination #adultism #criminality #criminalNetwork #schoolNetwork #impunity #ascendancy #sexualViolence #rapeCulture #intimacy #adults #violence #publicHealth #torture #boardingSchool #adultism #adultDominance #beliefs #values #family #children #education #childhood #learning #catholic #catholics #religion #institutionsDeceive

Germans take pride in their diplomas. A mandatory lesson was that noone should touch a Jew.

#EstelleSays #yarn 🧶

Every time we make a mistake, our brain opens to #learning.
National schools humiliate children. A motivation is that its role is to justify the social status assigned to each.
Other forms of learning, on the other hand, have no meritocratic mission: children can learn for themselves.

#EstelleSays 🧶

#neuroscience #raceMaking #adultDomination #patriarchy #intelligence #growth #talent #teaching #joy #willingness #antiPsych #psychology #control #merit #success #doubt #personalDevelopment #school #assignments #assessments #education #imagination #performance #ranking #SamahKaraki #meritocracy #practice #training

How you see the world makes you vote far right 🧶

#EstelleSays #longThread #owners #property #votes #cars #merit #class #anthropology #conformance #normalcy #masculinity #manliness #racism #school #failure #culturalWars #work #labour #extremeRight #whiteness #fragility #whiteFragility #order #socialOrder #affects #France #FRPol #farRight #Bardella #LePen #Parliament #whiteSupremacy #supremacy

The social norm is constructed: not naturally occurring but created by the society in which it is found.
Hence there are no actions which in themselves are inherently #abnormal or universally condemned by all societies at all times. Deviance is thus situational and contextual.

🧶 #longThread @sociology @socialpsych

#EstelleSays #assertive #selfCare #positive #self #selfStudy #bias #reputation #norm #conformation #normal #mentalHealth #sexuality #pervert #moralPanic #morals #EstelleInterprets #sociology #queer #LGBTQ #Deviance

On display: Consuming culture is not a fundamental need. Our bodies become addicted to entertainment, like they do to nicotine, sugar or chocolate; four industries.

#addiction #alienation #screen #technique #tech #technology #technocriticism #philosophy #phone #cell #sociology #mentalHealth #personalSafety #capitalism #selfCare #spectacle #entertainment #show #cinema #films #sugar #chocolate #nicotine #EstelleSays

If you show the value of a victim, you feel empathy. This increases the desire for equality but you feel bad: it endangers your health.

On the contrary, iIf you stress the mistake of a victim, you protect yourself: you feel like it should not happen to you. Society supports such detachment if the perpetrator is a white man or a police(wo)man.
Blaming the victim justifies inequality, discriminations, violence by the strongest. It normalizes (adult, white, male or cis) privileges. Therefore it normalizes patriarchy and white supremacy.

#blameTheVictim #Hamas #Gaza #ongoingNakba #rapeCulture #adultSupremacy #manliness #EstelleSays #humor #humour #feminism #empathy #grievability #mentalHealth #family #adultDomination #adultism #maleSupremacy #adults #domesticViolence #patriarchy #whiteSupremacy

The first AI war was in May 2021.

#IDI stands for the Intelligence Division of the Israel army. Here is some praise of technology usage:

May 2021 "is the first time that the intelligence services have played such a transformative role at the tactical level.

This is the result of a strategic shift made by the IDI [in] recent years. Revisiting its role in military operations, it established a comprehensive, “one-stop-shop” intelligence war machine, gathering all relevant players in intelligence planning and direction, collection, processing and exploitation, analysis and production, and dissemination process (PCPAD)".

Avi Kalo: https://www.frost.com/frost-perspectives/ai-enhanced-military-intelligence-warfare-precedent-lessons-from-idfs-operation-guardian-of-the-walls/

(to be continued) 🧶#longThread

#EstelleSays #history #BigData #analytics #planning #CrowdSourcing #intelligence #CROSINT #MilInt #military #AIWar #AIWarfare #israelGaza #israelGazaWar #israelHamas #Hamas #Habsora #israel #army #productivity #ethics #bias #AIEthics #AIRisks #organizations #engineering #EstelleInterprets

By 1940 "July 9 parliament had voted 569 to 80 to abandon the previous government, the Third Republic. The parliament also voted to give Chief of State Marshal Philippe Pétain, a World War I hero, full and extraordinary powers."

“The Vichy French government participated willingly in the deportations and did most of the arresting,” Paxton says. “The arrests of foreign Jews often involved separating families from their children, sometimes in broad daylight, and it had a very powerful effect on public opinion and began to turn opinion against Pétain.”

"On November 8, 1942, in the thick of World War II, thousands of American soldiers landed on the Atlantic coast of Morocco, while others amassed in Algeria, only to take immediate gunfire from the French."

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/vichy-government-france-world-war-ii-willingly-collaborated-nazis-180967160/

#EstelleSays #France #history #democracy #Collaboration #Pétain #Vichy #antiSemitism #elites #Paxton #genocide #Shoah #rafle #guilt #judeophobia #parliament #Deportation #EstelleInterprets

The social norm is constructed: not naturally occurring but created by the society in which it is found.
Hence there are no actions which in themselves are inherently #abnormal or universally condemned by all societies at all times. Deviance is thus situational and contextual.

#EstelleSays #assertive #selfCare #positive #self #selfStudy #bias #reputation #norm #conformation #normal #mentalHealth #sexuality #pervert #madness #morals #EstelleInterprets #sociology #queer #LGBTQ #Deviance