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Tara Ann Thieke

6 years

‘Your body is not a machine, you are not a ghost trapped in a piece of meat-clay’ is the most radical message one can preach right now.

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Tara Ann Thieke

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3 years

Covid has gifted a permanent emergency to the ruling class, even more flexible than terrorism. Nothing is off-limits. Our bodies belong to for-profit institutions. Your job, your schooling can be confiscated in a moment. Media hysteria dictates if people can worship.

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5 months

Inescapable overstimulation seems like an evolution of Simone Weil's concept of Force. There is something about it which despises the person, which seeks to consume them, and it does this through assaults on even the potential for Attention.

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Riders on MetroNorth are held captive, forced to watch screens projecting garbage. Already paid $26.50. Shouldn’t be subjected to this. The juxtaposition with the Hudson is a metaphor for so many things. Unless my head is turned sideways for the entire ride, it’s mind pollution.

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3 years

The normalization of the vaccine pass to participate in basic existence is shocking. No one embracing these measures is willing to delineate an off-ramp. No one explains why private companies should have access to the human body and to decide who can be a full member of society.

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3 years

A special event at our Catholic church, but doors open only to those with proof of vaccination. Too difficult to find words.

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3 years

This is a crime. One cannot be an environmentalist, one cannot love "nature" if one supports this. This is a terrible joke by people who love commercial aviation and January grapes shipped from Chile, who hate climate change but love globalism. The result is death.

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2 years

There is an implicit "just" filling the textbooks and messaging to children. You are "just" a machine of tubes & genes. A plant is "just" a way of making carbohydrates. Stars are "just" hydrogen gases. The moon is "just" a rock. Your sadness is "just" a chemical imbalance.

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3 years

The state is calling on corporations to coerce employees to surrender their bodily autonomy or lose their livelihood. Traditionally we called this business-gov't cooperation fascism. Funny how we just went through a 4-year panic about fascism from the people bringing us this.

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Tara Ann Thieke

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2 years

Interesting civilizational shift in the sort of books gifted to toddlers. 20 years ago they were like Richard Scarry: fun & learning the names of many things, helping the child navigate the world. Now it's all bug-eyed neurotic stick figures: "How dare you offer to hug Doug"

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Tara Ann Thieke

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3 years

Tell your daughters it is perfectly okay for them to respond to "what do you want to be when you grow up" with "a mother."

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Tara Ann Thieke

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3 years

Hundreds of thousands of my peers, US women 30-40, have lost their communities and cultures and are now absorbing a weaponized pseudo-therapeutic replacement in Instagram that poisons any opening to build healthy relationships.

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Tara Ann Thieke

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3 years

Imagine a child on the first day of school. They have no siblings. They are in kindergarten. They have never ridden a bus or been at school. When the bus pulls up, the driver is masked. When they arrive at school they cannot see a warm reassuring smile from the teacher b/c masks.

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Tara Ann Thieke

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3 years

One of the worst effects of the wedding industry boom in the 2000s was contributing to the perception that marriage was for rich people.

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Tara Ann Thieke

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4 years

The optics yesterday were incredible, maybe the most stark I've ever seen. The neighborhoods of Whole Foods shoppers, second-home owners, frequent jet setters were gloating in the streets. The towns ravaged by opioids were silent.

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Tara Ann Thieke

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4 years

Poor young adults getting married is actually wonderful and stigmatizing it has created a avalanche of tragic secondary and tertiary effects Make youthful marriage romantic and hopeful again

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5 years

@HuffPostCanada "I can't imagine a safer place for families to bring children" is printed directly above a photo of an 11 year-old boy who has been taken to clubs to dance evocatively for grown men at 2 am, who has been seated next to a middle-aged murderer and simulated snorting drugs with him.

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Tara Ann Thieke

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3 years

No, the time has not come, and the entire expert and scientific classes must take a multi-year course in something called "unintended consequences" and "epistemological humility"

Should We Block the Sun? Scientists Say the Time Has Come to Study It. (Published 2021)

The National Academies said the United States must study technologies that would artificially cool the planet by reflecting away some sunlight, citing the lack of progress fighting global warming.

www.nytimes.com

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Tara Ann Thieke

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2 years

What's most depressing is how widespread popular revulsion at dehumanizing, mechanistic language like "birth giver" and "Latinx" are being rapidly implemented in our major institutions, and the rebel left sees no problem with the colonization of the peasant mind.

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Tara Ann Thieke

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2 years

Your body is not a machine. You are not a lump of cells. Your very stomach is intelligent. Your brain is almost like a radio receiver. Your eyes really do twinkle when your soul is lively. Your heart can think. And every choice we make is full of meaning.

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Tara Ann Thieke

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3 years

Weird how a culture of relativism has made sin-hunting its primary pastime

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Tara Ann Thieke

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4 years

We should start tearing down billboards -They're an enclosure of the public commons by for-profit private enterprise -Use invasive ugliness to capture your attention -Demean landscape and communities, especially poor ones which can't fight back -Idol of money-worship culture

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3 years

Millions of people idly accepted segregationist policies and coerced invasive procedures. If your body is not your own then your life is not your own, you exist at the whim of private individuals. This is shocking. We should be amazed. The claims are radical and total.

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Tara Ann Thieke

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3 years

Came across the C.S. Lewis line yesterday regarding his preference to be ruled by robber barons rather than moral busybodies. Bad news for us, as those groups merged.

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Tara Ann Thieke

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2 months

The left believes a woman having a baby at 21 is a catastrophe while a significant segment of the right believe a woman having a baby at 39 is a catastrophe.

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Tara Ann Thieke

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3 years

The loss of the individual doctor, artist and scientist together, in favor of the mega-group practice dominated by administrators, loud televisions, and scrolling for the "right" pill to try is an incredible civilizational loss. Healing, a living art, replaced by Management.

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Tara Ann Thieke

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5 months

The seeming burden of the pettiness falls on the one accused of complaining: "Have you no earplugs? Do you not know the cost of business?" But it should be reversed: "Why do you pursue me even unto here? Who are you to claim my soul? What is there of me Force will not devour?"

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Tara Ann Thieke

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3 years

Do my children's bodies belong to companies with immunity from liability? Does their future depend upon the hysteria fueled by cable news and crazed bullying on social media?

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Tara Ann Thieke

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2 years

One of the loveliest gifts we can give is to allow others to cause joy in us. Children particularly love to give joy, to see joy created by themselves in faces around them. It is a sacred task of adults to slow down enough to receive the joy the child wishes to bestow on others.

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Tara Ann Thieke

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1 year

There is a church nearby set to be demolished. It is a testament to the community whose skilled craftsmanship created transcendent beauty while their bodies were ground up in the steel mills. The community today is poor and downtrodden and they cannot stop the demolition.

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2 years

Noise pollution is a scourge and an undeniable sign of civilization collapse. People who try to downplay its impact are typically unaware of how a lifetime of noise has blunted their sensory awareness.

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Tara Ann Thieke

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3 years

"Everything is on the table" when it comes to getting rid of the inconvenient trucker convoy. We stand on the brink of the person being turned into a QR code, a product to be managed by a merger of corporate-state authoritarianism. From Seattle 1999 to Ottawa 2022 -->

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11 months

People are healthier and happier when they are making things. They are unhealthier and unhappier when they are dragged into passivity, disengaged from Creation. It is a tragedy so much schooling and so many creative vocations have been mechanized into variations of paperwork.

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2 years

It's a nightmare, but it's important to step back and look at the big picture. There is a class of professionals in this country, largely upper middle class women, with enormous platforms, strong social clout, are adept at weaponizing administrations, and who are quite sick

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Tara Ann Thieke

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1 year

Our St. Patrick’s Day guy!

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Tara Ann Thieke

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3 years

That this is happening at breakneck speed, trial by search engine optimization and news feed weaponization, is folly beyond words. The judiciary system is poised to collapse upon itself if it approves this incredible absolutism pushed upon us by for-profit companies.

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2 years

Isn't it amazing how women are always top scientists and never cashiers or receptionists? And this is how generations of lower-income were dragged out of their homes to satisfy the ambitions of the wealthy.

Incunabula

@incunabula

2 years

Roald Dahl - 2001 authorized Puffin edition vs 2022 authorized Puffin edition.

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3 years

I don't think there has ever been a case in my lifetime that will tell me more about the world I live in: does my body belong to Pfizer?

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3 years

How can we take seriously a government and economy which facilitates billionaires buying up millions of acres to do unsustainable polluting machine farming, but denies land access to tens of thousands of would-be homesteaders who could give deep attention to the land?

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4 years

@MSN How can you be trusted on anything else when you do things like this.

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Tara Ann Thieke

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2 years

@ProfEmilyOster @TheAtlantic You're prepared to do it all over again. Your biggest enemy is still "misinformation," ie anyone who disagrees with whatever the man on television tells you to believe at a given moment.

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2 years

Amazed at how rapid anti-natalism is being mainstreamed. It's weird, it's genuinely weird. This is not a society with any hope left.

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Tara Ann Thieke

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3 years

A pregnant woman's body begins preparing milk months before giving birth. The nutritional content of milk changes over time to meet the baby's needs. The human body is not a light switch to be turned on or off with sudden infusions of hormones.

Isaac Evilman🐀 IsaacEvilman.bsky.social

@isaac_evilman

3 years

@PYeerk @DrLeoMarvin5 @hondo64ou1 @LoFiRepublican It’s only rare because people don’t do it and people don’t do it because it’s rare… you see the issue. Any man can breastfeed his baby, it’s just that people tend not to try.

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Tara Ann Thieke

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2 years

@nytimes Why do you think there is nothing inherent in being a woman, and why do you work to make women think they should be more like men? Why do you dislike women so?

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Tara Ann Thieke

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2 years

The slow, miserable, drawn-out murder/suicide of the American bookstore Is the replacement of physical "third places" with screen socializing part of our cultural insanity? Borders, a lonely nation turns its eyes to you

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3 years

A little guy!

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Tara Ann Thieke

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2 years

TikTok poses an immense challenge to humanity. The cat is out of the bag. What is happening to young brains via dopamine and peer pressure circulating instantaneously, into every little screen, is something we should all be working to understand and balance out.

Going Godward

@goinggodward

2 years

TikTok is the bane of my existence working with middle schoolers. Every vice that can be tapped into is available on the platform. There is a fight every week because somebody “started beef” on TikTok. And it’s an enormous time waster. All my students are addicted.

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4 years

@varelas_peter @anthonyfurey Apparently we also need to protect children from parents who care more about the government then their children

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Tara Ann Thieke

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3 years

Older children, teenagers, young adults all deserve so much better than the screens we've given to them as a replacement for knowledge and society and community.

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Tara Ann Thieke

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3 years

Aristotle studied and wrote about plants and philosophy. St. Hildegard studied and wrote about plants and philosophy. Goethe studied and wrote about plants and philosophy. It is of notable that our current philosophers seem to think mainly of law, economics, and machines.

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Tara Ann Thieke

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2 years

These book are all about the emotional mine-fields of adults, using a far more preachy and arrogant tone than any little golden Bible stories book I've ever read: The good egg MUST unlearn perfectionism. Children MUST learn the language of contractual relationships.

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2 years

Why do adults think these are what children need? What is wrong with teaching them names, showing them beauty, mixing it with some levity? These books are joyless, formulaic, and introduce children to worrying about a lifetime of nagging microaggressions.

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2 years

@haterchoker Surrogacy must be banned now. Now.

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6 years

@RickyInJapan @Timcast I just watched the version from another angle, and my goodness. The man puts the drum right in the boy's face! When you see longer excerpts, the boy isn't smirking at all, but looks nervous while people are screaming. No one looks good here, but this is not one-sided

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1 month

@wesyang Neurotic scolds - yes, but there's something else. They sense power here, and there's nothing neurotic about that. The phony preening positivity is a well-managed gloss - the velvet glove cloaking the iron fist.

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3 years

@SBMPediatrics Hmm. The majority of disordered eating and ill-health I see comes from people who consume industrial food products. It's disturbing to see this advice from a pediatrician.

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4 years

"You were, uh, taught to believe in angels as a kid?" Like you can see this poor guy's whole world slowing down. Smart people don't believe the things stupid people I resented as a kid believed. David Lynch is smart! But if he believes this what does that mean?

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2 years

Here are some of my encounters with poverty in recent years: 100s of pieces of moldy sweatshop clothing dragged around in garbage bags. Obesity and hoarding, piles of garbage with cockroaches rushing out. Veterans with 2-3 teeth unable to stop soiling themselves.

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@mattyglesias

2 years

These images of American life in 1964 don’t generate a lot of nostalgia

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Tara Ann Thieke

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3 years

Imagine defending this culture

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3 years

The ascendance of oikophobia amongst elites is a recurrent marker of decay and collapse, and it has been an open anti-value of our culture for several decades.

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2 years

This is how we cut the final cords between every day before yesterday. A terrible rupture, stranding the present generation in an eternal, terrible Year Zero

AConcernedParent

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2 years

The CA 9th-12th grade literature list contains 0 books written before 2016 (no classics). It has books by Michelle Obama, Ibram Kendi, and Trevor Noah. FL 9th-12th list has Crime & Punishment, Hamlet, Night, Dante's Inferno, 1984, and Animal Farm. The difference is shocking!

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5 years

DIY skills has suffered for everyone. Public schools gutted them, planned obsolescence offers shoddy products not worth fixing, and a throwaway culture built by advertising encourages irresponsibility

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5 years

Millennial dads have pathetic DIY skills compared to baby boomers

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3 years

Reading comments from people who just love daycares, adore dropping babies off with strangers, who find office work liberation and confident anyone who sees otherwise is a rube doomed to be swept into the dustbin. A special bleakness

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4 years

It's startling to reflect on the drastically smaller family networks the coming generation will have for support. Delayed childbearing will mean far less time with grandparents (let alone greats). And fewer siblings means fewer cousins, aunts, uncles, etc

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2 years

The problem with neoliberal technocrats is when they receive pushback, they genuinely believe it is a confirmation of the inferiority of the masses and their own brilliant, disinterested triumph over messy things like "evolution" and "where food comes from"

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2 years

A few miles away from me, a working-class mother of 3 in her early 30s was recently shot in the head and died while working the night shift at a gas station. The insidious bowdlerizing appalls me, but diminishing the sacrifice and reality of working women cuts deepest.

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2 years

To force a child to decide pronouns is to rip them out of World-as-Gift & force them into the consumer paradigm. They are ripped from immersion in Creation, where questions grow organically, and forced into the Machine where limbs are optional but submission to the Machine is not

Colin Wright

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2 years

1/ 🧵Asking a child about their pronouns is the 1st step of indoctrination into gender ideology and creating "trans kids." It separates the terms he/him (as referring to men & boys) and she/her (as referring to girls & women) from biological sex and roots it in "gender identity."

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3 years

"Not even knowing what science means" will be the epitaph of our credential-worshipping expert class.

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3 years

“We are going to kill ourselves because of stupidity”

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3 years

The tragedy of the 2 post-war generations is they were so intent on consuming and breaking boundaries that they failed to pass anything on. There are so many men and women looking down at their hands and realizing no one taught them how to use them.

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6 years

So while I am willing to consider Dr. Ford is telling the truth, I'm more determined to refuse to sacrifice due process, to reject trial by social media & gossip. Things are complicated. If we ignore that to score points, we will recreate middle school. And that place is my hell.

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2 years

To insist on viewing all relationships through the lens of power is a terrible loss of grace, beauty, communion, being, becoming, understanding, mutual participation... all the things which make being human so incredible.

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3 years

It doesn't matter if the vaccine is 100% safe & side-effect free (it isn't, but that's not the point). It doesn't matter if it has FDA approval. What matters is that the state and businesses are holding people hostage. What matters is normalizing coercion.

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2 years

And none of this is true. Materialist reductionism seems like an enormously thick wall, but it turns out it isn't so solid after all. For centuries people have been poking holes in it, and yet a child has to become a curious adult to begin to unlearn dogmatic reductionism.

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3 years

Everybody who wants this, I'm very sad, but please take it and go. We'll give you guys like a big state where you can all sit and play these games, and in return you leave us alone and stop trying to force the metaverse onto everyone else.

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3 years

If I were a billionaire I would not flood the sky with satellites and block out the stars. Instead I’d build thousands of dreamy stone towers around the world for the people to climb and wonder at the heavens and on holy days we’d float lantern balloons from them

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4 months

All of their elders told them that having children was something to be afraid of, even to be ashamed of if they were under 25. They were asked if they would be the first female president. They were told & shown family support would be nonexistent.

Lenore Skenazy

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Thoughts--or, even better, evidence--on why fewer young women are having kids & U.S. birthrate is declining? Global probs, economic issues, waiting longer, or perhaps helicopter parenting demands? Love to hear from young women themselves! Mulling a column. Tnx!

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4 years

@AskTarget @BlueIris04 I don't feel safe at stores that allow a handful of activists to censor speech.

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6 years

@RickyInJapan @Timcast I was trying to wait yesterday to comment much, though I was frustrated with the doxxing. But right now I am so angry at the media, the skewed coverage, the Buzzfeed farce memory-holed and replaced with a swarming on kids who were confronted by people looking to fight

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2 years

Madness of unbalanced globalism. Rather than becoming compost, it all rots with plastic bags & junked gadgets. Soil depleted for monocultures destroying biodiversity. Nutrient-poor GMOs wastefully shipped round world. And the poor gnaw on poisonous shelf-stable pseudo-food.

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Here’s your food shortage (one shift)

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3 years

The stars are part of the public commons. It’s absolutely crazy that, without any discussion, people lost the ability to go outside and see the stars, to teach their children the phases of the moon

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First there's no "need" for menstruation. Then there's no need for muscles, for sweat, for digestion. Why have mere flesh when we could have steel or silica? Why be analog when we could be digital? This is not medicine; it is erasure of the human.

Michele Quinn, MD, FACOG

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Unless you’re trying to conceive there’s no medical reason to have a period. We have an array of pharmaceutical and surgical options for minimizing or eliminating periods, which are at best inconvenient and at worst disabling. Seriously fuck menstruation

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Husband on our 15-month old: “She reminds me of a college sophomore who just read Marx for the first time. Just charging through the world with a totally unearned confidence.”

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2 years

It's amazing how generations which grew up on some actual good stuff binned it all in order to go on sterile, bland, and noisy moral crusades. There was no reason to do so. The results are dismal. Yet adults continue to strip joy and beauty and laughter away.

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3 years

That we reached a point where adults argued a toddler resisting being masked for hours is the same as a toddler not wanting to eat broccoli, brush teeth, or wear pants is astounding. "Not a big deal" they say while hurling away integrity in exchange for 2 minutes of grandstanding

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3 years

What about a renaissance of domestic manufacturing, of a mass rejection of the administrative culture for a return to trades? To make cities and small towns hum again, not with throwaway culture, but with the art of making lasting beauty?

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2 years

This thread begins with the 1950s, because we must forget everything before the Wars. And we must forget how almost all other societies have lived. The lonely 1950s housewife must be the only manifestation of women's work that has ever existed.

Maladroithe

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The narrative that women who were once happy SAHMs were forced into the workforce purely for corporate capitalist profit (while notably omitting how hard corporate America campaigned to keep women OUT) is such a laughably bunk hypothesis I am stunned.

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3 years

This is the funniest thing written during the entire pandemic. "Please, spend 2 hours a day commuting, spend money on parking and transit and gas, so that you can devote more unpaid time to thinking up ways to make your employers more money"

Boston Globe Ideas

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Reason #3 : Working from home can be too convenient. Commuting gives us time to process our days, let our minds wander, and explore ideas. Additionally, “office life forces transitions and breaks throughout the day.”

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Tara Ann Thieke

@TaraAnnThieke

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Mothers are not surrogates. They are not mere incubators. Every baby deserves to be nurtured and fed beside the heartbeat it grew beneath for 9 months. Babies and women should not be for sale.

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Tara Ann Thieke

@TaraAnnThieke

11 months

We're a family of 7. We are constantly preparing things in the kitchen. The counter and sinks fill up seconds after being cleaned. 3 hour dishwasher cycles are a punishment of consumers for daring to use the products our houses were designed around.

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Tara Ann Thieke

@TaraAnnThieke

3 years

TikTok and Instagram memes are shaping the world my children are going to live in and it is so murderously unloving and anti-Creation and the only communal alternatives are utterly banal and disconnected.

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Tara Ann Thieke

@TaraAnnThieke

3 years

Machines are un-sexed. They are incapable of fertility and lack capacity for communion with another. The effort to de-sex men and women is an effort to make us see ourselves as machines and obscure the truth that we are complementary creatures made for a greater whole.

Summer Youth

@MusingsOfYouth

3 years

The people who talk or write like this have a deep and profound distaste for humanity, which is why they adopt a dialect that implicitly locates themselves outside a human frame.

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Tara Ann Thieke

@TaraAnnThieke

3 years

There's a terrible power in controlling how we collectively imagine the future. Right now the options seem to be a plutocrat-led Metaverse+pod lifestyle, or gathering apocalyptic collapse. Some want to return to 2019, but is this desirable? What about a different imagining?

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Tara Ann Thieke

@TaraAnnThieke

4 years

Here's my radical idea: just don't sell babies at all?

Surrogacy: Why the world needs rules for 'selling' babies

Surrogacy has boomed recently, but there are concerns a lack of international rules puts babies at risk.

www.bbc.com

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Tara Ann Thieke

@TaraAnnThieke

3 years

The nuclear family is very good. What is not good is modern top-down developments & cities/burbs sucking up workers & fracturing families. The nuclear family should be able to be home, be surrounded by other families with kids, and have elders/singles in walking distance.

Ms. ABD

@whimsikal

3 years

Kids are actually a 3-4 person job. The nuclear family was a mistake.

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Tara Ann Thieke

@TaraAnnThieke

4 years

The upper middle class loves to demean personal child-rearing and taking care of the home. Someone needs to look after small children - apparently they think that's underpaid strangers. Someone needs to clean - they mean women who would rather be in their own home.

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Tara Ann Thieke

@TaraAnnThieke

3 years

Marriage as class indicator is a terribly ominous sign for the poor and middle classes. The rich and educated know marriage is key to reducing churn, stabilizing children, providing for end-of-life security. But millions from infancy to old age are now lacking that key.

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Tara Ann Thieke

@TaraAnnThieke

2 years

So much of children's media is joyless! A wonderfully textured book like "Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs" is turned into a CGI mush, devoid of fun, needless interpersonal drama inserted, and the silly beauty of the world neutered.

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Tara Ann Thieke

@TaraAnnThieke

3 years

The Lord of the Rings is underrated.

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Tara Ann Thieke

@TaraAnnThieke

3 years

Noticed while listening to some old movies that choirs have vanished. Bands on the way out. It's 1 person + 1 machine. In fact everything in this group has been splintered: old from young, hand from work, song from labor, production from land, neighbor from neighbor.

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Tara Ann Thieke

@TaraAnnThieke

1 year

Stopped by the chain book store yesterday and boy was it a fascinating microcosm of the mainstream culture’s disorientation.

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Tara Ann Thieke

@TaraAnnThieke

5 years

@fugularity @pant_leg I hated red velvet until I tried some a friend brought back from a super swanky private restaurant they were working at. That's when I realized red velvet cake was real but the masses were just eating food coloring.

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