Living in the future series
Living in the future means adapting to restrictions which have not yet become the norm for most of the people reading this newsletter.
Living in the future
“Haunt the dreams of your comrades, and the nightmares of your enemies; live in a future that never came—be a specter, a memory, and a herald. Remind them that the current state was not inevitable until it came to be. Do not occupy yourself with the question of why this very possible future failed, leave the victorious to grope for answers. Be the question, and do not heed your impotence. A ghost has no need for material presence or action, you just need to shimmer.”
- Alaa Abd el-Fattah, You Have Not Yet Been Defeated
More tragic yet, the Oxfam report from this summer, Water War Crimes, “finds that Israel’s cutting of external water supply, systematic destruction of water facilities and deliberate aid obstruction have reduced the amount of water available in Gaza by 94% to 4.74 liters [a mere 1/4 bucket] a day, per person—just under a third of the recommended minimum in emergencies and less than a single toilet flush.”
Deterrents as relationship
“We are bound up with one another. Anywhere and everywhere you are, you can get in the way of the death machine; hold somebody’s hand tight, and get in the way together. Revolution until victory for all of us.”
