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History shows that the conquered are taught that they are free. When a nation or people are conquered, their 'liberators' begin the task of educating everyone about how the conquest is actually, 'liberation'; how the revolution that killed so many innocent people was actually for everyone's 'benefit'.

Every conqueror establishes institutions to mold the thoughts of his slaves into obedient thoughts. These obedience mills are called LIBERATION, EDUCATION, PATRIOTISM, and RELIGION.

Each class of slaves in each of its mills of mind molding believes himself to be superior to and 'freer' than the other slaves. If someone with a free mind points out their state of slavery the other slaves will consider him to be an insane troublemaker.

Every conqueror convinces each generation that theirs is freer and more enlightened than the prior generations. Then he educates them about the 'freedoms' that yet need to be won, always in line with his imperial agenda. He uses his mind molding mills to highlight the 'injustices' that people need to fight against, so they never fight against the actual conquest that has enslaved them to his imperial economy and trade. As long as the slaves fight against 'injustice' as defined by imperial parrots, the real injustice of the invisible conquest will never be addressed. The slaves will revel in their slavery.

Orwell was right:

Slavery is freedom.
Ignorance is strength.

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#Freedom #Liberty #Slavery #Imperialism #Brainwashing #Patriotism #Religion #Education

William Burroughs, a Thanksgiving tradition in our home.

"A Thanksgiving Prayer" by William S. Burroughs

#Thanksgiving #America @histodons

https://youtu.be/sLSveRGmpIE

Today is mythology! #EYAmiotaseolaíocht #EYAmythology
#EYAmythologie

Looking forward to seeing what you come up with (especially @ucdarchives and @Athenenoctua :) )

very lazy and tenuous example provided by the writer of these toots ( @politicscurator ) here's a copy of the young fabian society pamphlet "Sweden: the myth of socialism" https://lse-atom.arkivum.net/uklse-dl1fs010030010033-uklse-dl1-fs01-003-001-0033-0001-pdf

@histodons @archivistodon #history #heritage #GLAMM #archives #archivists

Curators from the Smithsonian will be diving for balloons, scooping up signs and hoping to score some hot dish at the #DNC this week.

We talked to three of them about how they select items to be used in the future to explain what's going on now (republished on @medium) https://medium.com/@ConversationUS/how-smithsonian-curators-scavenge-political-conventions-to-explain-the-present-to-the-future-d90a8cb99f80 #News #USPolitics #DNC2024 @histodons

CAUTIONS. The four cautions: I. Beware of a woman before.--II. Beware of a horse behind.--III. Beware of a cart side-ways.--IV. Beware of a priest every way.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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#books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #crime #language #slang @histodons

📖 The book "Timor-Leste’s Long Road to Independence", edited by Zélia Pereira and Rui Graça Feijó, includes a chapter authored by Pedro Aires Oliveira where the historian discusses the reasons that allowed for the retention of Portuguese sovereignty in Timor until 1974. 🇹🇱

👉 https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789463726375/timor-lestes-long-road-to-independence

@histodons

#Histodons #Colonialism #EastTimor #Indonesia #Portugal #Bandung #Colonialismo #TimorLeste

A new book on the history of #prostitution in France is out. Elisa Camiscioli's "Selling French Sex.
Prostitution, Trafficking, and Global Migrations". Really looking forward to this. #sexwork #history @histodons @genderhistory @migrationresearch @criticalmodernslaverystudies
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/selling-french-sex/CCB6437A68A88F33F84B19ADBCCCDF49#fndtn-information

📖 The book "Une histoire globale des révolutions", directed by Ludivine Bantigny, Quentin Deluermoz, Boris Gobille, Laurent Jeanpierre, and Eugénia Palieraki, includes a chapter by @victorpereira dedicated to the Portuguese Carnation Revolution.

👉 https://www.editionsladecouverte.fr/une_histoire_globale_des_revolutions-9782348059346

@histodons

#Histodons #50Anos25Abril #25A50 #PoliticalHistory #PortugueseRevolution #Revolutions #ContemporaryHistory #25deAbril #CarnationRevolution

“The idea of distributing risk has been around since the 14th century when insurers of trading ships wanted someone to share the uncertainties of long sea voyages.

“Modern reinsurance was established in 19th-century Europe, which some historians credit to large fires in Hamburg, Germany, and Glarus, Switzerland, where significant losses led to the founding of many of today’s leading reinsurance companies.”

@histodons #history #insurance #reinsurance #RiskManagement

https://hakaimagazine.com/features/in-the-face-of-mounting-climate-risks-the-insurance-safety-net-is-falling-apart/

17th-century New England farmers moved a mind-staggering amount of stone to build walls – an estimated 240,000 miles of barricades, most stacked thigh-high and similarly wide.

That’s long enough to wrap Earth 10x at the equator – and is larger in volume than the Great Wall of China, Hadrian’s Wall in Britain and the Egyptian pyramids at Giza COMBINED.

https://theconversation.com/new-england-stone-walls-lie-at-the-intersection-of-history-archaeology-ecology-and-geoscience-and-deserve-a-science-of-their-own-216701
#agriculture #history @histodons #Histodons

📖 2023's second issue of #HoST — Journal of History of Science is now online. The theme is "Social History of Science and Historiography: Where are We in Brazil?".

🔓 Available in #OpenAccess: https://sciendo.com/issue/HOST/17/2

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#Histodons #SciHist #HistoryOfScience #SocialHistory #Historiography #Brazil #NewPublication

Thinking aloud is a powerful pedagogical tool. In #AHAPerspectives, read how Richard Bond employs this method to teach students to use primary sources. @histodons #histodons https://www.historians.org/research-and-publications/perspectives-on-history/december-2023/a-classroom-tune-up-using-think-alouds-in-an-introductory-history-course

The UN’s Genocide Convention, in its 75 years, has not stopped genocide.

Far from it.

But there is some value to the international treaty.

https://theconversation.com/the-landmark-genocide-convention-has-had-mixed-results-since-the-un-approved-it-75-years-ago-219296
#history @histodons #Histodons #humanrights #genocide

On January 15th, I will be taking part alongside several other scholars in a symposium organized by Wilfrid Laurier University on legacies of racism and colonialism in Canadian universities. My talk will focus on the use in 1860 of funds held in trust for First Nations to bail out McGill College.

Institutional Histories: Reckoning with the Past - Reimagining the Future (9am-2:30pm, EST, online)
@histodons

Registration: https://wilfrid-laurier.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_x4KTA2a4R7G10z9N1zxUWA#/registration

#histodons #CdnPSE #academia #McGill

Henry #Kissinger is dead at the age of 100.

Here's one Cambodian's verdict
"I’m a scholar of the political economy of Cambodia who, as a child, escaped the brutal Khmer Rouge regime with four siblings...
In both a professional and personal sense, I am aware of the near 50-year impact Kissinger’s policies during the Vietnam War have had on the country of my birth."

That impact was destruction, death and trauma.

https://theconversation.com/henry-kissingers-bombing-campaign-likely-killed-hundreds-of-thousands-of-cambodians-and-set-path-for-the-ravages-of-the-khmer-rouge-209353
@histodons #News

THE PRIZE PAPERS

"Thousands of records documenting daily lives around the globe in the time of the European Expansion, Colonialism, and Resistance."

"The aim of the German-British Prize Papers Project is the complete digitization and sorting of the Prize Papers including the preservation of the collection’s material, the initial and in-depth cataloguing, the creation of research-oriented metadata and finally the presentation of the digital copies and the metadata in an open access research database. The portal development reflects our continuous engagement with developments in the field of Digital Humanities. We also pursue various research projects, and we cooperate with numerous international researchers and research institutions working on the Prize Papers and in project-related areas."

#ThePrizePapers #Europe #History #OpenAccess #Archives #Digitization

@histodons
@digitalhumanities
@sociology
@academicchatter
@anthropology

https://www.prizepapers.de/

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/nov/23/your-wife-wants-to-see-you-letters-seized-by-18th-century-privateers-opened-for-first-time

The #Oppenheimer movie is a triumph of the American narrative of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. A story entirely told from the perpetrator's perspective. No voice of the victim. An obsession with the brilliance of manufacturing weapons of mass destruction.

#Hiroshima #Nagasaki #nuclear #ManhattanProject @histodons #histodons

https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/08/06/the-american-narrative-of-hiroshima-is-a-statue-that-must-be-toppled/

Detail from the one of my favourite ancient Roman mosaics. There’s tentacles galore to enjoy here as well as many different examples of marine life 🐟🐙🦑🦐

🏛 MAN Napoli, inv. 120177

#MosaicMonday #AncientRome #History @histodons @antiquidons @archaeodons

I caught this beauty while at the Baths of Diocletian. It’s been placed on display on an exterior wall and is genuinely huge. The different bird life featured is spectacular!

#MosaicMonday #History #AncientRome @histodons @antiquidons @archaeodons