sucks
it’s gonna be a long summer

Over 100 prisoners have died in United States custody during the “War on Terror.”
Over 100 dead. Just three years.
There are hundreds upon hundreds of additional “ghost prisoners” around the world right now — prisoners who disappeared from their homes, family, and friends, and whose local communities believe them to have been taken in secret by the United States in the “War on Terror,” unofficially and without records.
No-one knows where they are. And of course, we as citizens still don’t have access to the list of who is in our “War on Terror” prisons.
For decades, we accused the Soviets and China because they tortured or caused individuals to “disappear” in the interest of national and domestic security.
Turns out we didn’t really have such a grounding in moral superiority after all. Surprise, surprise.
§ As you get older, the ghosts become more real than anything else.
§ Under the leaves, soil. Under the soil, stone. Under the stone, souls.
§ Radically empowering individuals in society may be the worst mistake we ever made.
§ Want to be a radical? Refuse to suffer. Then, wait for the assault.
§ Goodbye 2017, part two. (The real part.)
§ Sometimes you find home where you’ve never been—and you dwell where you aren’t.
§ The self can’t play Atlas for postmodernity because science is now supernatural.
§ Rehab is universal. So is history.
§ Identity, transcendence, and tactics.
§ Untitled. (a.k.a. Pretty faces, new old photos.)