Emma Goldman 1911: The Tragedy of Womanâs Emancipation
Nevertheless, the position of the working girl is far more natural and human than that of her seemingly more fortunate sister in the more cultured professional walks of life teachers, physicians, lawyers, engineers, etc., who have to make a dignified, proper appearance, while the inner life is growing empty and dead. The narrowness of the existing conception of womanâs independence and emancipation; the dread of love for a man who is not her social equal; the fear that love will rob her of her freedom and independence; the horror that love or the joy of motherhood will only hinder her in the full exercise of her profession--all these together make of the emancipated modern woman a compulsory vestal, before whom life, with its great clarifying sorrows and its deep, entrancing joys, rolls on without touching or gripping her soul. Emancipation, as understood by the majority of its adherents and exponents, is of too narrow a scope to permit the boundless love and ecstasy contained in the deep emotion of the true woman, sweetheart, mother, in freedom. The tragedy of the self-supporting or economically free woman does not lie in too many, but in too few experiences. True, she surpasses her sister of past generations in knowledge of the world and human nature; it is just because of this that she feels deeply the lack of lifeâs essence, which alone can enrich the human soul, and without which the majority of women have become mere professional automatons.
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/goldman/works/1906/tragedy-women.htm
Corporate Media Parrot FBI Talking Points as More Americans Turn to Encrypted Communication Online
Before he became a household name as the accused spoiler of the 2016 election, James Comey, FBI director under President Barack Obama, was already well-known in tech circles as a crusader against strong encryption. Still smarting from Edward Snowdenâs exposure of the US governmentâs massive and illegal domestic spying operations, Comey grabbed any microphone he could during the waning years of Obamaâs tenure to warn Americans that encryption technology was putting us all at grave risk by causing law enforcement to âgo dark.â Cryptography is the art of encoding text or other data such that only those who have the secret key can read it. This data can include anything from messages and records to digital currencyâbut these days encryption most commonly protects account passwords and other sensitive information as it traverses the internet. Encryption has been around for millennia and, in modern times, it is used on a daily basis by nearly every person living in a technologized society. But like any technology, it can frighten those in power when wielded by the relatively powerless. In the summer of 2015, Comey told the Senate Judiciary Committee that encryption had suddenly inspired the FBI âto consider how criminals and terrorists might use advances in technology to their advantage.â
https://fair.org/home/corporate-media-parrot-fbi-talking-points-as-more-americans-turn-to-encrypted-communication-online/
Slavoj Zizek feat. Rammstein: âWe have to live till we dieâ is the Covid-era inspiration we all need
One piece of wisdom the media bombards us with is that the Covid-19 pandemic taught us about our mortality and biological limitation: we should abandon our dreams about dominating nature and accept our modest place in it. Is there a more sobering lesson than being humiliated and reduced to near-impotence by a virus, a primitive self-reproductive mechanism which some biologists don't even count as a form of life? No wonder that calls for a new ethic of modesty and global solidarity abound. But is this the true lesson to be learned here? What if the problem with living in the shadow of a pandemic is exactly the opposite: not death but life, a strange life that drags on, allowing us neither to live in peace nor to quickly die? So, what should we do with our lives in this predicament? Maybe the Rammstein song âDalai Lamaâ indicates the right answer.
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/515419-zizek-rammstein-covid-lockdown/