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@bradr #TomLehrer favourite: National Brotherhood Week.

"To hate all but the right folks is an old established rule."

#music #obituaries #class #ClassWar #satire

Alt-text for spoken word introduction, which takes up the first 51 or so seconds:

"One week of every year is designated National Brotherhood Week. This is just one of many such weeks honoring various worthy causes. One of my favorites is National Make-Fun-Of-The-Handicapped Week, which Frank Fontaine and Jerry Lewis are in charge of as you know.

"During National Brotherhood Week various special events are arranged to drive home the message of brotherhood – this year, for example, on the first day of the week, Malcolm X was killed, which gives you an idea of how effective the whole thing is.

"I’m sure we all agree that we ought to love one another, and I know there are people in the world who do not love their fellow human beings, and I hate people like that! Here’s a song about National Brotherhood Week."

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@samuelpepys

" ... and looked over my Lord's lodgings; and Whitehall garden and the Bowling-ally, where lords and ladies are now at bowles ..."

You are at the centre, Sam. High up in the King's administration, at home in Whitehall, now looking at the private amusements of the upper class.

These vignettes have so much cinematic poetry in them.

In the Wake of the Capitalist Crisis: Protests and Riots - And the Need for an Independent Class Expression

leftcom.org/en/articles/2025-0

This past year we have experienced some of the largest protests in decades in several countries. These struggles have not had a clear class character and have varied greatly in terms of main issues and triggering factors…

Looking forward to reading this when it’s out:

Bourgeois coldness by Henrike Kohpeiß

'Bourgeois coldness refers to an affective strategy that offers an explanation for how self-preservation works. Bourgeois coldness is one of the most advanced affective and aesthetic forms of preserving the structure of the colonial status quo. It creates an affective shelter in the world, unencroached upon by the immediate consequences of its many catastrophes. It functions like air conditioning – a complex technology which reliably stabilises the climate until those inside consider it natural. Bourgeois spaces – institutional and affective – stay cool and pleasant. But outside it’s burning.'

divided.online/all-books/bourg

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Cover of the book Bourgeois Coldness
Divided PublishingBourgeois ColdnessBourgeois coldness refers to an affective strategy that offers an explanation for how self-preservation works. Bourgeois coldness is one...