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YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC Today is only the beginning.

Today is only the beginning.

Our time has come, New York. Our time is now.

Shimizaki in the Land of Peace

~ Takeshi seshimo, Gouden Hamada

Hard Boiled.
Written by Frank Miller and illustrated by Geof Darrow.

A drawing of Manji, the main character of Blade of the Immortal facing of against what I think is a hundred men.

Blade of the Immortal.
Chapter 6.

"What is evil? Whatever springs from weakness"

~ F. W. Nietzsche: The antichrist

"What threatens us today is fear. .. Our danger is the forces in the world today which are trying to use man’s fear to rob him of his individuality, his soul, trying to reduce him to an unthinking mass."

—William Faulkner

I see
and I hear
and I speak no evil;
I carry
no malice
within my breast;
yet quite without
wishing
a man to the Devil
one may be
permitted
to hope for the best.

-“An Ethical Grook” by Piet Hein

“It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.”

— John Steinbeck

“The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding.”

— Albert Camus

"Only when the last tree has been cut, the last river has been poisoned & the last fish been caught will they realize that they can't eat money" old Cree proverb

The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe, he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.

— Henry Miller

Form is emptiness; emptiness is form.

All phenomena are empty.

Nothing is born, nothing dies; nothing is pure, nothing is impure; nothing increases, nothing decreases.

To win a crowd is no art; for that, only untruth is needed, nonsense, and a little knowledge of human passions. But no witness to the truth dares to get involved with the crowd.

~ Soren Kierkegaard

Avoid the world. It’s just
a lot of dust and drag
and means nothing
in the end.

——Jack Kerouac

"People seem good while they are oppressed, but they only wish to become oppressors in their turn: life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim."

~ Bertrand Russell

“Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of another... There are just some kind of men who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results."

—Harper Lee

“Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights before the dark hour of reason grows.”

― John Betjeman

In the book, they are adapting. Yes, she is at the beginning because it's her birthday. She is the only one who remembers her home world since she left when she was a kid, so she watched it blow up.

"The universe is change, and life mere opinion."

~ Marcus Aurelius

There's a terror
in knowing
what the world
is about.

― David Bowie

Don’t worry about being happy. Just focus on cultivating the conditions for its arrival: walk somewhere, run someplace, eat something healthy, lift something heavy, read something good, write something down

happiness will take care of itself.

Look Out. 2026.

“I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.”

-Antonio Gramsci

We are about to witness levels of media illiteracy that the human mind cannot even fathom.

The purpose of art is to lay bare
the questions that have been
hidden by the answers.

—James Baldwin

"The vast bulk of men are not pure individuals, and never will be, for the pure individual is a rarity, almost a kind of freak. The vast bulk of men need to belong to a self-governing group, a tribe, a nation, an empire. It is a necessity like the necessity to eat food."

-- D.H. Lawrence

Modern man does not think about current problems; he feels them. He reacts, but he does not understand them any more than he takes responsibility for them. One thought drives away another; old facts are chased by new ones. Propaganda... cannot permit time for thought or reflection."

— Jacques Ellul

“All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.”

-George Orwell

"Fascism doesn't just take down the oppressed. It doesn't just come for the people it's trying to control; it inevitably destroys the people who have worked the hardest to build it"

— Andor creator Tony Gilroy

“The more the drive toward life is thwarted, the stronger is the drive toward destruction; the more life is realized, the less is the strength of destructiveness. Destructiveness is the outcome of unlived life...

The man who cannot create wants to destroy.”

— Erich Fromm