the destructive power of western culture and language suffusing everything in my life. the destruction of my own gaze into a western one.
i can't live without feeling constantly like we lost, we are conquered, and that this feeling will never go away. the frustration at the parts of myself forever lost to this even as i write in english on a primarily western website shaped by a very western internet, in full awareness that i do not know how to access such concepts and spaces indigenously.
i need to read some books and relearn my mother tongue. i need help.
Ah, I've never understood how exactly Europeans would feel disconnected from their pasts – it sorta seems to be right there in all the aristotle and the cathedrals and palaces. But I definitely see the symptoms when it comes to the fetishisation of Viking Culture, which I misread. Thank you for writing this!
Ya, it's very true that a lot of the 'dominant' culture draws directly from European history, totally. And a lot of libs are proud of the Ancient Greek philosophers and Christian architects and all that. It's just... I'm not, cuz they were all so... bad. Hahaha. :af-heart: