Sherrie Miranda's Blog, page 24
January 3, 2019
Quotes from The Speed of Dreams by Subcomandante Marcos
“What is the speed of dreams?
I don’t know. Perhaps it’s…But no, I don’t know…
The truth is that what is known here is known collectively.
We know, for example, that we are at war. And I’m not referring just to the real zapatista war, the one which has not totally satisfied the bloodthirstiness of some media and of some intellectuals ‘of the left.’ The ones who are so given, the first to the numbers of deaths, injured and disappeared, and the latter to translating deaths into errors ‘for not having done what I told them.’
It is not just that. I’m also speaking about what we call the ‘Fourth World War’ which is being waged by neoliberalism and against humanity. The one which is taking place on all fronts and everywhere, including in the mountains of the Mexican Southeast. As well as in Palestine and in Iraq, in Chechnya…
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December 24, 2018
Yep
Yes
December 12, 2018
How to keep in touch with your book when your writing routine is disrupted
Here’s some excellent writing advice to help you stay in the flow at this busy time of year!
December 11, 2018
The truth is the greatest enemy of the State
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.” – Theodore Roosevelt
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.” – Joseph Goebbels
You know I was thinking about writing a witty post about the latest dumb Trump stuff that is going on but then I…
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