not in a horny way more like a cowboy slapping his horses hindquarters to jostle it along but in this scenario you are both horse and rider combined into one vaguely stressed and very fast creature
just saw a conservative blogger ‘fear-monger’ with the phrase “a nation without a border ceases to be a nation!”
and im like…you mean that nations are not intrinsic truths, but instead they only manifest themselves through the exclusion of the ‘other’??
you mean that borders are fictions that we are all encouraged to believe in, in order to create a feeling of national pride that is almost entirely based on being ‘not the other’, creating stigma and feelings of superiority?
you mean that citizenship and nationality are features of our cultures that are almost always decided arbitrarily at birth and through nothing else??
you mean that a world without borders would be a very big step in the direction of a world without nationalism and without fear/stigmatisation of the ‘other’?? yeah sounds awful….
a doctor parts skin with a careful touch, turns a tumor into shadow, and seals his patient once more with black threads.
a teenager buys black pills from the pharmacy, swallows one, lies back. they find themselves shrouded in darkness, and for the first time in a long time they sleep well. in the morning they wake under their covers, safe and warm.
a parent casts a shadow over their child, whose body overheats quickly. with the shadow protecting them, the child can walk safely under the sun, fearing neither sunburn nor heat stroke.
light moves swiftly, but darkness is everywhere, and all connected. white magic transportation moves its passengers at dangerous speeds; it’s black magic which harnesses the everywhereness of the dark and turns it into the safest and most efficient transportation known to life.
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