“How do I stop being scared of-” You do it scared. The courage arrives WITH the action, not before it. Don’t wait to feel confident before you act because the key to confidence is usually doing the thing while still scared as fuck
This is how I feel about Joshua Trees. They and avocado trees produce fruit meant to be eaten and dispersed by giant ground sloths. Without them, the Joshua Trees’ range has shrunk by 90%.
(my own photos)
Not only they, but the entire Mojave ecosystem is still struggling to adapt since the loss of ground sloth dung. their chief fertilizer.
Many, many trees and plants in the Americas have widely-spaced, extremely long thorns that do nothing to discourage deer eating their leaves, but would’ve penetrated the fur of ground sloths and mammoths. Likewise, if you’ve observed a tree that drops baseball or softball-sized fruit which lies on the ground and rots, like Osage Oranges, which were great for playing catch at my school, chances are they were ground sloth or mammoth chow.
You can read about various orphaned plants and trees missing their megafauna in this poignant post:
thats completely understandable given everything going on but please remember that all of the things happening rn are the result of world imperialism succumbing to its own contradictions. a cornered beast will lash out and it will lash out violently, but it’s crucial to remember that the huge increase in counterinsurgency efforts, reactionary violence, etc all reflect the desperate attempts of a dying system to keep itself afloat.
and while yes, the grief we have to endure as a result of that violence is immense, never forget that there was a time in history where there was no organized anti-colonial resistance to speak of, where workers hadnt seized the means of production in one country, let alone several, when colonial hegemony went almost entirely unchallenged except in the form of scattered revolts and rebellions.
we are not in that period anymore, we are living in the aftermath of the october revolution, of the chinese revolution, of organized international solidarity in the periphery, of the US empire spreading itself thinner and thinner and losing on more and more fronts, of recurrent and pronounced crises of the capitalist system,
an era where colonized peoples have become/are becoming the subjects of their own history, rather than merely the objects. all of this is reason to stay optimistic, to stay vigilant, and to channel that grief and anger and agitation into drive to fight, drive to resist
and perhaps most pertinently for this current struggle of palestinian liberation, please remember that the fight is ongoing and far from lost, on the contrary, there are many reasons to believe the tide is turning, that the palestinian people will rid themselves once and for all of the occupation and strike a massive blow to world imperialism in the process
“Social Democracy thought fit to assign to the working class the role of the redeemer of future generations, in this way cutting the sinews of its greatest strength. This training made the working class forget both its hatred and its spirit of sacrifice, for both are nourished by the image of enslaved ancestors rather than that of liberated grandchildren.”
The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the ‘state of emergency’ in which we live is not the exception but the rule. We must attain to a conception of history that is in keeping with this insight. Then we shall clearly realize that it is our task to bring about a real state of emergency, and this will improve our position in the struggle against Fascism. One reason why Fascism has a chance is that in the name of progress its opponents treat it as a historical norm.
i really should make an oc based on my favourite concept ever: jedi dropout who does online tutoring for kids whose parents didnt hand them over to the jedi
pov you are walking down a coruscant street and you hear somebody on the phone (holo phone? comms? whatever) saying “listen to me, no, listen, grandmaster yoda, i HEAR what you’re saying but listen, listen: i will spill any jedi knowledge for twenty credits. and if you want me to stop you’re going to have to fucking kill me. alright? give master koon my love and tell aayla that spare room is still up for grabs” and then they hang up
it’s not ideological they just left the order for love and then immediately had the worst breakup ever but they’d already told half the council to fuck off so they had to commit
But did he survive Order 66?
would they even be a star wars character if they didnt survive to go on a mad scramble quest to collect all their idiot baby students before the empire gets them. they have to borrow their ex’s ship it’s a whole drama
