vol. 4 issue 12
Greetings,
Welcome to Oceania.
It’s the largest of the three nation superstates in Orwell’s 1984.
We live here by force. It’s a place where we’re never sure what is true, what is not true. Is the enemy we’re told is out to get us truly the one we should fear? Does that enemy exist at all?
I have been reading so many crazy, crazy things since the Uvalde massacre, especially since I posted this about our being under occupation by fascists whose mercenaries are SCOTUS, crazy things that show how as events speed up and the habitual liars are being caught out too fast for them to mobilize and agree on their talking points, the images of what is and is not, are as fragmented as their scatter brain minds.
Now is a rare opportunity to break free, to make the Great Escape!
Because one thing stands out, clear as mountain water, pure as a pitch whistle: if you know your own mind, if you are aware of your own experiences, if you are able to anticipate what’s coming because you have clearly thought about what has been, then when you are assailed with the shit storm of words from the lords of Oceania — aka, AMERICA, you will dismiss those words because you will know they are lies.
Mind control was the first weapon of empires. It will be the last.
Know yourself. You have to know your own mind. And you have to be sane. This might be something impossible to achieve in this lifetime, but anything — anything — is healthier than the metastasized mind cancer that we’ve been hosting in our heads for decades. So, start now. Start asking yourself if any of the bullshit we are being told about anything could possibly be true. And then, reframe what you hear with other words. You might agree with parts of the original argument, but not the weaponization of it. So, don’t get caught in the flak.
Here’s some help:
“Guns don’t kill people, people kill people.” A half-truth meant to dissuade discussion that predicted how once the ban on assault weapons was overturned, we would only be at the mercy of one’s mental health, the definition of which would then be up for endless debate, according to whose purposes it served.
Now, read this article entitled, ‘There’s nothing to repair’, because there isn’t anything left of the little bodies that are blown to smithereens by these murderers.
Consider the interviews with the medical examiners who struggle to describe the bodies they are confronted with after one of these massacres, and consider every time you read “assault rifle” or “weapon” you insert, child annihilator, baby guts exploder, organ disintegrator. Try using them interchangeably. Here’re some quotes from the article, already compelling. Try your new words as you read:
Colwell and other physicians said that one reason the U.S. is seeing more and deadlier mass shootings is the prevalence and accessibility of AR-15-style weapons. Now, the nation is in a "far, far worse place" than in 1999, when there was still a federal ban on assault weapons, Colwell noted.
"You have to see the damage that these weapons do to really respect and understand how dangerous these weapons are," he said, adding that he's not arguing that a .22 pistol can't end a life, but there's a reason why you don't see them used in mass shootings today.
There's no way a shooter could have done that with a pistol or non-semi-automatic weapon, he said. Seeing the wounds, the facial expressions of the victims, and the way they were lying at the scene, the emotional impact lasts forever, he noted…
The explosive power and velocity from the projectiles "disintegrate organs," and "there's nothing to repair," he added.
“Pro-life faction”
First of all, where is the evidence that anyone who favors the right to have an abortion is a) anti-life and b) excited about the prospect of having one or forcing anyone to have one?
But also, pro-life? Excuse me a moment. Thanks. I was laughing so hard I couldn’t breathe. Here’s a succinct retort to that legerdemain of language. It’s by writer Kate Manning. Here’s a snippet of it. These are inspired ideas. Why not see if we can make it happen in state and court houses nationally?
Like abortion foes who wave photos of bloody fetuses outside clinics (fetuses that could not survive outside a woman’s uterus), we who oppose the annihilation of our bodily autonomy ought to plaster statehouses with photos of our episiotomy incisions, our Caesarean scars, our intravenous-line hematomas, our bloody postnatal sanitary pads and bloodstained bedsheets, our cracked nipples and infected breasts.
Or maybe we should erect billboards featuring women who have died in childbirth — two or more every day in the United States — especially those whose deaths left their existing children motherless.
Perhaps we could stop these brutal laws by playing films of women in labor on loop in judges’ courtrooms, sound full on, the agonies of laboring women loudly audible, not reduced to 30 seconds of soft-focus grimacing, as in the movies.
Sounds so pro-life, doesn’t it? Your own experience tells you otherwise.
So, every time you hear anti-abortion laws or pro-life arguments, consider inserting forced-birth laws or mandated gestation.
Consider:
Forced-birth laws mandate a woman not only to withstand childbirth but also to choose: either raise a child she does not want or surrender that child for adoption, a decision that some women embrace but others describe as a lifelong grief. In this way, abortion bans and restrictions could also be called “forced child-surrender” or “forced motherhood” laws.
Add these to your new lexicon: forced child-surrender, forced motherhood.
Because Oceania doesn’t really exist, you don’t have to live there. It’s a place that is all in the heads of these deformed fascists. So, where does the real America live? It starts with the places in your own mind, the ones unadulterated by occupiers.
Good luck mapping it, because if you don’t they will.
Peace,
Whitney
More resources
You might also want to reconsider past entries into the docu-mental collection:
And perhaps follow Paul Waldmann, who understands how the Nazi occupation of America is happening while we are entangled in their words:
Try this recent op-ed: On guns and abortion, Republicans are ready to abandon federalism and this one: Our gun laws were built on fantasy and terror
So good, Whitney! Crystal clear. xo
Or, as seen on Facebook: "How about we treat every young man who wants to buy a gun like every woman who wants to get an abortion: Mandatory 48-hr waiting period, parental permission, a note from his doctor proving he understands what he is about to do, a video he has to watch about effects of gun violence, an ultrasound wand up his ass ( just because) . Let's close down all but one gun shop in every state and make him travel hundreds of miles, take time off work and stay overnight in a strange town to get a gun. Make him walk through a gauntlet of people holding photos of loved ones who were shot to death, people who call him a murderer and beg him not to buy a gun....no woman getting an abortion has killed a room full of people in a matter of seconds..."