We are the last generation who can hear from these survivors directly. Do not take that lightly. Do not waste that opportunity. Do not forget your freedom isn’t infinitely guarenteed. And do not, do not, let it happen again.
Really truly, watch the video, reblog it. Teaching about the holocaust is so necessary for our generation before it slips under the rug and people forget about it.
Imagine dois projetos de lei. Um propõe que cada um adquira seu jazigo em dez anos sem juros (ou seja, com juros financiados pelo governo). O outro propõe que cada um adquira seu primeiro carro pagando em dez anos, também sem juros (ou seja, com juros financiados pelo governo).
São tempos de vacas magras. Não há dinheiro para os dois projetos. Um referendo deve decidir qual dos dois será adotado. É possível imaginar que os jovens preferirão o projeto do carro, e os idosos, o do jazigo.
Um plebiscito sobre a reforma da Previdência daria uma oposição análoga. Os idosos pensarão em garantir seus "direitos", ou seja, a melhor aposentadoria possível, e, se isso implica que cada jovem pague a metade do que ele ganha em INSS ou que o Estado quebre em 20 anos, pois bem, dane-se.
E os jovens? Bom, fale com um jovem de 18 anos sobre a aposentadoria dele, tente interessá-lo: ele é capaz de responder que, de qualquer forma, ele não pretende viver tanto tempo assim.
O voto do "Brexit", que decidiu que o Reino Unido sairá da União Europeia, manifestou um duplo conflito (que não é só inglês). O primeiro é ao redor da imigração: enfrentam-se os que defendem os valores do território e os cosmopolitas das grandes cidades –sobre essa oposição voltarei na semana que vem. O outro é o conflito entre jovens e idosos.
Setenta e cinco por cento dos jovens entre 18 e 24 anos votaram para continuar na União Europeia. Quase a mesma porcentagem de aposentados, acima de 65 anos, votou para sair da Europa. Só para confirmar: na Escócia, onde se vota a partir dos 16 anos (e não dos 18), o "Brexit" perdeu feio.
O atraso no desenvolvimento do córtex pré-frontal dos adolescentes é a causa provável de sua impulsividade, sua dificuldade em ponderar as consequências de seus atos etc. Esse traço da juventude é socialmente útil: num exército, os soldados devem ser capazes de se arriscar sem pensar duas vezes.
A prudência trazida pela idade é também útil: no mesmo exército, os oficiais superiores não devem arriscar levianamente a vida de seus homens. Ou seja, um exército só de jovens ou só de idosos seria uma catástrofe.
Agora, uma observação, que me sinto livre para expressar por fazer parte dos idosos. À vista da utilidade social de jovens e idosos, é curioso que todos achemos normal que exista uma idade mínima para votar, mas ninguém pense seriamente na possibilidade de uma idade máxima para votar, sobretudo nos casos em que o voto tem consequências radicais para o futuro da comunidade –ou seja, muito mais para os jovens do que para os aposentados.
Não estou pensando na senilidade e na demência (para isso existe a interdição), mas em traços frequentes em nós, idosos, que talvez nos tornem eleitores perigosos para todos. Dois em particular:
1) Uma avareza mesquinha (e generalizada –não só financeira), que consiste em tentar preservar e conservar qualquer coisa, como metáfora da preservação (impossível) da nossa vida que se vai;
2) Uma idealização fantasiosa de passados que nunca existiram. Os idosos parecem sempre evocar o "tempo feliz" de sua infância, quando os pais eram severos e por isso educavam bem, quando dava para brincar na rua e a escola pública era muito boa. Mas, se a escola era tão boa, por que o cara é ignorante? E, se os pais eram grandes pedagogos, por que ele é bruto e mal-educado?
Cuidado: quase sempre, nós idosos nos servimos da saudade para "viver", numa lembrança inventada, algo que, de fato, não conhecemos –e agora é tarde. Nossa vida não foi o que queríamos, e ela não vai mudar mais, no entanto "tivemos"(na lembrança) uma infância de conto de fadas, não é?
Também nos servimos da saudade para amenizar nossa inveja (filhos e netos vão viver mais tempo, mas não terão uma infância incrível, como a nossa) e para mendigar algumas migalhas da inveja dos jovens. Se não tivéssemos vivido na Idade de Ouro, quem nos invejaria, sabendo que nossa morte é próxima e o corpo já falha?
Os mais saudosos, aliás, são os idosos das classes menos favorecidas; eles, literalmente, têm saudade do que nunca tiveram. Domingo, nas entrevistas da BBC, gritavam: "Vamos pegar nosso país de volta!". Como assim, "de volta"? Meu amigo, "seu" país nunca foi seu, nem de longe.
"Nós não ficamos mais sábios com a idade, nem sempre os velhos sabem o que é certo" (Jó 32:9).
Gryffindor online description: brave, noble, chivalrous, a little arrogant and reckless at times, but an all around hero
Gryffindor actual description: "TURN DOWN FOR WHAT?" *sees spider and screams*
Ravenclaw online description: witty, intelligent, tends to be eccentric, very smart and pretty nerdy,
Ravenclaw actual description: hasn't left the house in six days, is down to one square of toilet paper but doesn't notice because they're so deep into the Internet
Slytherin online description: cunning, clever, resourceful, can be ruthless and tends to be a villain on the worst days, but loyal to those they love
Slytherin actual description: gets hit in the head with a dodgeball in p.e. because they were busy thinking of ways to overthrow the government
Hufflepuff online description: kind, sweet, tends to be soft spoken, can be a pushover, loyal, hardworking, overly nice sometimes
Hufflepuff actual description: smiles a lot thinks about food 24/7 until someone disses their friend, then all hell breaks loose
The other night husband and I were watching a documentary about the yeti where they were doing DNA analysis of samples of supposed yeti fur, and every one of them came back as bears.
Anyway, the next night we watched a thing about some pig man who is supposed to live in Vermont. People said it had claws and a pig nose but walked upright like a man. Now, I happen to know that sideshows used to shave bears and present them as pig men. So every piece of evidence they gave of this monster sounds to me like a bear with mange.
So now the running joke in our house is that everything is bears. Aliens? Bears. Loch Ness monster? Bear. Every cryptozoological mystery is just a very crafty bear.
Bears. They’re everywhere. Be wary. Anyone or anything could be a bear.
something i think about a lot is what if alien species have less biodiversity on their planets. like if they’ve got maybe 20, 25 species of bugs, total. so they come to earth and they’re like “whoa.” or they’ll like be like walking down the street and they’re like “ok what’s that” pointing at a st bernard and you’re like “oh that’s a dog” and they’re like “whoa, neat, i’ve heard about dogs.”
and you walk for a while longer and then they point at a yorkie and they’re like “what’s that?” and you kind of have to be like “…that. that’s also a dog.” and they’re like “wait, really?” and you’re like “yeah.” and it takes them a while to absorb this but then you just keep walking.
and like you’re going for a while and somebody’s walking their bull terrier and you’re like trying to walk faster hoping your alien friend doesn’t see but no dice they’re like WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT and you’re like “that. that is a dog” and they let out an anguished wail
and like every time after that they see a weird four legged creature they’re like “that BETTER not be a goddamn dog” and half the time you gotta wince and be like “actually,”
oppressive jokes aren’t meant to just put down people they target. they are meant to help oppressors bond with each other.
don’t tell me it doesn’t matter to make such jokes when “there’s no one around to get offended”. don’t tell me to let it fucking slide.
i know why a man makes a misogynist joke when trying to blend into a company of other men. i know why white people make racist jokes about their coworker who is a PoC, and how it’s going to affect their work.
Am I the only one that’s a just a tiny bit pissed off that this is still an issue?
The Original Series wasn’t even in the general VICINITY of fucking around yo
How many shows these days would do this, and do it this way? These days, it would be all, “Ohh, we have to be sensitive and show the nuances of each side” and try not to make either side seem wrong. It wouldn’t be clearly spelled out, “pro-choice is right, if you’re against it you’re the bad guys.”
Jim Kirk is not here for your anti-birth-control, anti-choice, pro-death-penalty BS
James Tiberius Kirk was written and portrayed as a feminist and I will fight anyone who says otherwise.
Yep. That episode is exactly what you think it is: pro-birth control, pro-population control, pro-choice, and pro-women’s right to choose. And yes, Kirk, the supposed playboy of the spaceways, is in favor of all of the above.
It was written and aired in 1969.
It probably couldn’t air today.
THINK ABOUT THAT.
Also LMAO at all the sad whiny geek boys who are like “I miss the GOOD OLD DAYS of SCI-FI when it wasn’t all about SOCIAL ISSUES and instead it was just about MEN HAVING FUN IN SPACE. Like Star Trek! Star Trek wouldn’t put up with all this SOCIAL JUSTICE FEMINISM IN SCI FI bullshit!” And meanwhile I’m just over here like “…did you actually watch the show?”
It’s also important to bear in mind that the Original Series had a predominantly female fanbase, and during its initial run, was widely mocked and dismissed by mainstream (i.e., male) science fiction fans as being fake sci-fi for girls. It’s difficult to overstate the influence women had on the franchise in its early days; most of the early Star Trek conventions were organised by and for women, and indeed, those same organisers were primarily responsible for the massive letter-writing campaign that prevented the show from being cancelled after the 1968 season. Without that campaign, the episode pictured in this post would never have been made.
The popular image of James Kirk as a sleazy womaniser is part of a conscious effort to erase that history and render the franchise’s roots palatable to the misogynistic geekboys of the modern SF/F fandom.
And a gentle reminder that TOS was a Desilu production, which its board of directors voted to cancel after the second pilot due to cost concerns, a vote that Chairman Lucille Ball overruled. There is no Star Trek without Lucille Ball.
of course, the irony about this cartoon - which I assume is meant to demonstrate shallow selfie culture desecrating the great classics - is that among other things a) hamlet is a disaffected young man suffering from depression and, frankly, deeply self-absorbed and b) the entire play is obsessed with the idea of performance and performativity and so absolutely hamlet taking selfies would be in the spirit of the original because a selfie is a new way of constructing the self through images
so what I’m saying is: fuck off culture snobs I’m coming for you
Yeah, my first thought was definitely “huh. That would make for a pretty good adaptation.”
people like to say that superhero movies “aren’t realistic” but what about that time Steve Rogers hurled himself out of a plane without a parachute rather than deal with a friend’s questions about his love life
Marvel: We can't make Steve Rogers interested in men because he's the symbol for America and all its values, it'd upset too many people
Also Marvel: Hey sup guys guess who's actually a Nazi
I had this girl in my class and she was considered to be like really dumb. She’d ask a ton of doubts and questions in class, which everybody would consider to be “stupid"and “silly” and even the teachers would often taunt her but she’d never stop asking. But the thing was that she’d almost always top the class examinations and everyone was like???? They all thought she was cheating and stuff and obviously even the teachers were very biased because she wasn’t so ‘smart’ in class, and she was regularly accused of cheating. But nobody could prove that she was actually cheating but the whole class and teachers totally believed that she did. I’m pretty socially awkward so I never really talked to her, but she was leaving school this year and I was genuinely curious about how she was so good during exams and how she didn’t let everyone’s remarks affect her. She always used to sit and hang out with only one girl, and she told me that that friend of hers was severely socially anxious and she’d lag in studies because she couldn’t bring herself to ask doubts in class or ask for help from others. So they had this system where during lectures her friend would write down any question she had, and she would ask them for her. And I was just so touched??? Idk but it really changed the way I looked at people?? This girl endured taunts and jeers and borderline bullying for being “stupid” when she was actually really smart and could easily have refused to ask such doubts for her friend but she did?? And brushed off everything others would throw at her for her friend?? I was just, idk it just really changed me in some way.
