We had progress by poverty in the face of accumulating wealth, and that poverty was not simply the poverty of the slaves of Africa and the peons of Asia, but the poverty of the mass of workers in England, France, Germany, and the United States. Literature became realistic and therefore pessimistic. Religion became organized in social clubs where well-bred people met in luxurious churches and gave alms to the poor. On Sunday they listened to sermons--'Blessed are the meek'; 'Do unto others even as you would that others do unto you'; 'If thine enemy smite thee, turn the other cheek'; 'It is more blessed to give than to receive'--listened and acted as though they had read, as in very truth they ought to have read--'Might is right'; 'Do others before they do you'; 'Kill your enemies or be killed'; 'Make profits by any methods and at any cost so long as you can escape the lenient law.' This is a fair picture of the decadence of that Europe which led human civilization during the nineteenth century and looked unmoved on the writhing of Asia and of Africa.
W.E.B. Du Bois, The World and Africa (Oxford University Press), 16.
I havent played in a few days and disco elysium spoilers ahead but anyway... Harry is so interesting as a character to me he's done some awful shit and has the potential to do worse but despite that his existence can make you so emotional he's just another person.. idk its so easy to hate him at first i think even just due to the gameplay which is kind of genius i think? You start the game and this guy is fumbling the bag on every choice and dialogue option you pick of course he annoys you. And then you see everyone blaming you for the crazy shit you did and now its his fault half the people you meet are mad at you. And then you find out just... the way his life is. How excellent of a detective he is and how he, unlike the others in his station, has a long standing streak if not a moral code of no unnecessary killing and avoiding it to the point he hardly has any on his record.. and despite this (or maybe bc of it im not super far yet) you hear how he's mocked by his coworkers, you see all these small pieces of mourning in him when he doesn't know who or what hes lost, you read the dialogue of him questioning the one girl about her being sexually assaulted and him despite having no memory, still realizing he understands what shes going through because he's been through the same. There's so many pieces of him that are all so loose and painful that it becomes clearer and clearer how him regaining some sort of power through drinking is just him standing on top of all these small ways his life has lost control and gone completely off the rails... loses my mind
The espousal of the doctrine of Negro inferiority by the South was primarily because of economic motives and the inter-connected political urge necessary to support slave industry; but to the watching world it sounded like the carefully thought out result of experience and reason; and because of this it was singularly disastrous for modern civilization in science and religion, in art and government, as well as in industry. The South could say that the Negro, even when brought into modern civilization, could not be civilized, and that, therefore, he and the other colored peoples of the world were so far inferior
to the whites that the white world had a right to rule mankind for their own selfish interests. Never in modern times has a large section of a nation so used its combined energies to the degradation of mankind. The hurt to the Negro in this era was not only his treatment in slavery; it was the wound dealt to his reputation as a human being. Nothing was left; nothing was sacred; and while the best and more cultivated and more humane of the planters did not themselves always repeat the calumny, they stood by, consenting by silence, while blatherskites said things about Negroes too cruelly untrue to be the word of civilized men.
Not only then in the forties and fifties did the word Negro lose its capital letter, but African history became the tale of degraded animals and sub-human savages, where no vestige of human culture found foothold.
DuBois blickt als “ältester” Uhrenhersteller der Schweiz auf eine lange Geschichte zurück und kann aus über 200 Jahren Erfahrung in der Uhrmacherkunst schöpfen. Die Firma existierte schon zu Beginn des 18. Jahrhunderts und beschäftigt sich seit 1785 mit der Entwicklung und Herstellung erlesener Zeitmesser. Schon zu Beginn stand die Firma ganz im Zeichen von Qualität und Ästhetik. Die Tradition…
Hey, here's the full set of the brand new Disco Elysium pics!
Prints are available, and maybe these work well in poster format (which inprnt started doing a while ago)?
I'm sad I didn't get to draw any cars, would be nice to do 1 more, but I need to move on...
Also, there has been a promo on all summer at inprnt that might end soon, so these are at 35% off right now!
You can have specialists diagnose you and you can have online armchair psychologists diagnose you and then you have whatever's going on when people start tagging your personal posts as #harrydubois