Tag Archives: othering

We are only human

Posted on December 30, 2025 by borderslynn

I have mostly taken quotes from the Michael Steinberger book on Alex Karp. This study of one currently influential individual illustrates how our world order can be shaped by the impact of their life events and thus perceptions: 1967 was … Continue reading →

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Charlie Kirk’s Legacy?

Posted on September 22, 2025 by borderslynn

Stephen Miller said, through the media, that Charlie Kirk’s last words to him were about dismantling the “radical left”. “The last message that Charlie Kirk gave to me before he joined his creator in heaven,” Miller said, was, “that we … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged border policy, debate, enemy within, fear, hate, humans treated as vermin, immigration, Islam is peace, loathing. discrimination, love thy brother, othering, radicalising youth, turmoil, undocumented labour, war on terror | Leave a comment

Barbarism and Western civilisation

Posted on September 10, 2025 by borderslynn

I am reproducing this Substack by Chris Hedges:

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged aiding and abetting, barbarism, complicit, cruelty, Gaza, genocide for winners, greed, history, injustice, losers, middle east, othering, persecution, proxy, sadism, silence, torment, Western civilisation, winners | Leave a comment

Religious Mafia

Posted on August 14, 2025 by borderslynn

I am reproducing a Substack piece by Chris Hedges: When Religious Mafia & Rightwing Extremists Take Over (w/ Rollo Romig) | The Chris Hedges Report The 2017 murder of Gauri Lankesh, an Indian journalist and activist, is indicative of … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged america, assassinations, cruelty, cults, exclusion, India, israel, journalism, land grab. poverty, murder, oersecution, othering, religious mafia, right wing extremism, targetting, torment, wealth | Leave a comment

Profiling an extremist

Posted on May 21, 2025 by borderslynn

Another book I am dipping into is ‘Alt Reich: the network war to destroy the Western world from within’ by the Indian writer, Nazeem Ahmed. I have searched on Stephen Miller’s name: Here is an extract: The acolyte After 9/11, … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged america, ethnic mix, extremism, hate, multi cultural, othering, radicalising youth, white supremacists | Leave a comment

UK and Israel

Posted on May 17, 2025 by borderslynn

There is so much I don’t know. But the information is out there, and I just asked the question: why have I heard UK Politicians refer to the ‘Friends of Israel’? So here is a book which may enlighten me, … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged apartheid, Britain, coercion, colonialism, disinformation, fascism, history, israel, lobbying, occupation, othering, Palestine, propaganda, racism, South Africa | Leave a comment

But I was screaming into a void….

Posted on October 28, 2024 by borderslynn

I am reading ‘Who could ever love you’ by Mary Trump. I have just read a chilling few paragraphs which are even more relevant now than in 2017, as the Israeli war on Palestinians and Lebanese rages forever on: A … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged aliens, anger, anti-humanity, authoritarian aggression, blame game, collective punishment, denial, disharmony, distortions, do harm, fascism, fear mongering, humiliation, mental illness, mob rule, othering, perceptions, racism, rage, ranting, selfishness, Trump, victim blaming, violence, white supremacy | Leave a comment