This infographic explains the striking distance of different public health measures, from micrometers to kilometers. The general rule of thumb is this—if the virus is anywhere near your face, something has gone terribly wrong.
The truth is that the best public health is invisible and far away. It operates 1,000…
China mounted the best COVID response in the world and gets nothing but shit for it in the western press. Meanwhile White Empire has mounted the worst and gets nothing but excuses.
Yeah, there’s definitely a cover-up somewhere. …
Buddhism is full of contradictions. The Buddhist monk leaves in order to be present. They close their eyes to wake up. They sit alone to be with everyone. None of this makes sense in words, but who said the universe had to fit into ape vocalizations? Maybe life just doesn’t…
The pronoun debate is interesting because learning one other pronoun is nothing for most people. In the Tamil language there’s different pronouns for you, you (respectful), men, women, gender-neutral (respectful), and animals.
Then there’s dozens of terms of address. On any given day I can be called 20 different names…
If you cut off fossil fuels, people will not be quiet. They’ll fucking riot. Look at Kazakhsatan now. Look to Myanmar or France in the past. In Sri Lanka our cooking gas cylinders have been exploding, forcing people onto renewables (firewood). …
What if the self was a sliding scale? What if YOU solved some problems, the FAMILY solved others, and the COMMUNITY and NATION did their part? Different ‘selves’ for different solutions. Today (white) people treat everything as a personal problem and this obviously doesn’t work.
Take these three examples:
It’s tempting to say ‘fuck the red states’, but the red states are full of colored people. Colored people existing is, in fact, the problem, and it’s not limited to red states.
As Bree Newsome Bass says, and says again:
When analyzing who participated in the January 6th insurrection…
Biden was elected on the promise of at least not actively killing Americans. It’s another promise he’s broken. Biden has now killed more Americans than Trump, 424,000 COVID deaths compared to 412,000. And he still has three years to go.
In 2020, Biden said “Anyone who is responsible for that…
Cabinet Secretary Marcia L. Fudge is fudging it. She said “The United States is the only major economy in the world where the economy as a whole is stronger now than before the pandemic.” This is both a bald-faced and beard-faced lie.
Bald in that China has actually grown faster…
These roaring ‘20s are a roaring dumpster fire. The rich get richer while the poor get sick and die. The market goes up while life expectance dives. Computers mint money while we all get cooked alive.
Well,
The last roaring ’20s ended in a motherfucking pyre. The stock market crashed…
Indi Samarajiva is a writer living in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Sign up for my newsletter at www.indi.ca, and you can reach me at indi@indi.ca.
