Loren
@dionysusdream.bsky.social
Weird High School English Teacher
A Better World is Possible
A Better World is Possible
Relevant selection from Marx+Goethe
November 10, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Relevant selection from Marx+Goethe
My fancy wife is going to business trip starting Sunday night. It's really really fun for like 24 to 48 hours, then I start feeling very very lonely until wife gets back 😞😞😞
November 10, 2025 at 6:05 PM
My fancy wife is going to business trip starting Sunday night. It's really really fun for like 24 to 48 hours, then I start feeling very very lonely until wife gets back 😞😞😞
Yep! Every facet of life in the USA has been shaped to ensure that the value created by working people gets funneled up into the coffers of the people who do not work.
November 9, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Yep! Every facet of life in the USA has been shaped to ensure that the value created by working people gets funneled up into the coffers of the people who do not work.
It's enlightening to know that people saw through FDR even back then. I grew up on a steady stream of New Deal propaganda without realizing that it was just a 'consolation prize.'
November 7, 2025 at 1:57 AM
It's enlightening to know that people saw through FDR even back then. I grew up on a steady stream of New Deal propaganda without realizing that it was just a 'consolation prize.'
This would be so good/funny if Trotsky weren't in it
November 5, 2025 at 11:28 PM
This would be so good/funny if Trotsky weren't in it
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I'm an English teacher currently taking a one year grad program to get certified to teach computer science- could someone explain this to me in more beginner friendly terms? I'm already concerned about AI because it's turned off the critical thinking of my students in their writing.
November 5, 2025 at 11:34 AM
I'm an English teacher currently taking a one year grad program to get certified to teach computer science- could someone explain this to me in more beginner friendly terms? I'm already concerned about AI because it's turned off the critical thinking of my students in their writing.
This is such a satisfying feeling. As a high school English teacher, I regularly get to drop things like Gift of the Magi (hair brushes pocket watch Christmas gift irony story) on the unsuspecting students who have no clue what is coming and they get up out of their seats and go "Ohh! No way!" 😁😁
November 2, 2025 at 7:12 AM
This is such a satisfying feeling. As a high school English teacher, I regularly get to drop things like Gift of the Magi (hair brushes pocket watch Christmas gift irony story) on the unsuspecting students who have no clue what is coming and they get up out of their seats and go "Ohh! No way!" 😁😁
I'm not a baseball follower, but from everything I've seen and read he seems like a person who desires with the entirety of his being to be incomprehensibly good at one specific thing- and that thing is baseball.
November 2, 2025 at 12:28 AM
I'm not a baseball follower, but from everything I've seen and read he seems like a person who desires with the entirety of his being to be incomprehensibly good at one specific thing- and that thing is baseball.
You're right. I love my work as a teacher and I find it meaningful and necessary and I know I'll be able to continue being effective at it into my sixties, but other jobs are more damaging to a person's body. Work should be more about what we CAN contribute rather than what we can be coerced into.
October 29, 2025 at 4:13 PM
You're right. I love my work as a teacher and I find it meaningful and necessary and I know I'll be able to continue being effective at it into my sixties, but other jobs are more damaging to a person's body. Work should be more about what we CAN contribute rather than what we can be coerced into.
A person's retirement should not be a roulette wheel spin. A well earned rest after a lifetime of work shouldn't require financial planning and stock market speculation expertise.
October 29, 2025 at 4:01 PM
A person's retirement should not be a roulette wheel spin. A well earned rest after a lifetime of work shouldn't require financial planning and stock market speculation expertise.
"things would be inefficient. There would be shortages, waste, and poor allocation of economic resources." "And we’d all find our freedoms under attack from authoritarian leaders under the guise of security." These things are happening right now under capitalism.
October 29, 2025 at 10:29 AM
"things would be inefficient. There would be shortages, waste, and poor allocation of economic resources." "And we’d all find our freedoms under attack from authoritarian leaders under the guise of security." These things are happening right now under capitalism.
When you said, "a handful of elites can control every aspect of your life and force you to work hard every day for no reward," it made me think of our current lives under capitalism.
October 29, 2025 at 10:12 AM
When you said, "a handful of elites can control every aspect of your life and force you to work hard every day for no reward," it made me think of our current lives under capitalism.
I can give you a few bullet points that might fit into a post here. First: Fascist movements are funded pretty directly by the capitalists themselves as a way of fighting trade unionists. Second: Fascism taking control can be understood as when the capitalists essentially buy the state.
October 28, 2025 at 10:13 PM
I can give you a few bullet points that might fit into a post here. First: Fascist movements are funded pretty directly by the capitalists themselves as a way of fighting trade unionists. Second: Fascism taking control can be understood as when the capitalists essentially buy the state.
I know that you've expressed reluctance about people suggesting reading, but there's two really good books for understanding fascism. One is called "Fascism and the Social Revolution" (old book pre WW2) and Blackshirts and Reds (after overthrow of the USSR). Both on YouTube on audiobook for free
October 28, 2025 at 9:49 PM
I know that you've expressed reluctance about people suggesting reading, but there's two really good books for understanding fascism. One is called "Fascism and the Social Revolution" (old book pre WW2) and Blackshirts and Reds (after overthrow of the USSR). Both on YouTube on audiobook for free
There are so many steps in between 'more people getting class consciousness' and the kind of 'share everything' that communists see as one day being possible. In the short term though, we are about to be cornered by fascism, which historically tries to exterminate us- so we don't have time to dally
October 28, 2025 at 9:40 PM
There are so many steps in between 'more people getting class consciousness' and the kind of 'share everything' that communists see as one day being possible. In the short term though, we are about to be cornered by fascism, which historically tries to exterminate us- so we don't have time to dally
Part of the reason that we will win is that we are the one group of people that is NOT telling lies to people about material conditions. It helps us if people think critically about things and become immune to scams and deceptions like that.
October 28, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Part of the reason that we will win is that we are the one group of people that is NOT telling lies to people about material conditions. It helps us if people think critically about things and become immune to scams and deceptions like that.
..changes the way a person sees the world and responds to almost everything. It's one thing to know that something is wrong with capitalism, but knowing the hundreds of specific mechanisms of capitalism that cause it to inevitably lead to suffering+extinction takes things to the next level.
October 28, 2025 at 8:27 PM
..changes the way a person sees the world and responds to almost everything. It's one thing to know that something is wrong with capitalism, but knowing the hundreds of specific mechanisms of capitalism that cause it to inevitably lead to suffering+extinction takes things to the next level.
Ha ha yes the requests for people to do the reading can be a lot. It really does change a person though. After reading Capital by Marx, a person understands what's wrong with capitalism the same way that a scientist might understand the structure of atoms or how geological layers are formed. It..
October 28, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Ha ha yes the requests for people to do the reading can be a lot. It really does change a person though. After reading Capital by Marx, a person understands what's wrong with capitalism the same way that a scientist might understand the structure of atoms or how geological layers are formed. It..
It's awesome that you do that. The leaflet speaks to people on both an emotional and rational level, which I like. What do you think you'd like people to do after they read one of your leaflets? Like, what's the 'next step' after they read it and feel a connection to the ideas in it?
October 28, 2025 at 8:18 PM
It's awesome that you do that. The leaflet speaks to people on both an emotional and rational level, which I like. What do you think you'd like people to do after they read one of your leaflets? Like, what's the 'next step' after they read it and feel a connection to the ideas in it?