2022 will be quite spectacular 🍾🍸.
🌞☀️.
Enjoy every day to the fullest.
Let's enjoy the journey untill we make millions.
Remember it might happen sooner than later.
( i missed 50 000€ in 2021, as i thought Dogelon would ride untill 2022.
And i could have bought back in.
This shows that we might be closer to succes than we think. )
🥂🍾🍸.
🏝🏖🌞☀️.
The mere thought of it haunts my dreams. And we all know the number one culprit: iced americanos. I've seen it, you've seen it, we've all seen it at every fansign, backstage waiting room clip, music video behind the scenes, etc.: that ominous cup of dark liquid just sitting there, waiting to be enthusiastically sipped by your favorite idol.
Iced americanos aren't even tasty-- at a certain point I just have to think that so many idols drink them to follow the trend. But at what cost?? AT WHAT COST?!? Take a minute to think about the pungent haze of coffee breath that must exist in the company vans as idols travel from schedule to schedule. The horror! Just look at this poor, defenseless paper doll being victimized by the evils of coffee breath (I'll bet that Starbucks cup had a hot caffè americano in it, too)!
I honestly have thought about this so many times in the past decade that I've been into kpop. At this point, I should just start a fundraiser to buy travel mouthwash for all these poor idols. Coffee breath is a menace that must be eradicated! >:-(
#CLOVstrong
Do you think that anyone or anything could stop our way to the moon?
(warning: lots of different, seemingly unrelated topics before my main point)
Okay, so the other day I watched the video "How countries were invented" by YouTuber Tom Nicholas, which discussed the origins of the nation-state, and in it he referred to the nation as an "imagined community." That is, the idea of the nation is a social construct such different members within it feel a sense of community with each other, even if they have vastly different interests (e.g. capitalists and workers), or if they live so far apart that none of the actions they take will ever meaningfully influence the other person's life.
Apparently, there's a fair bit of literature on this subject, including Imagined Communities by Benedict Anderson, from which the terminology is derived--but back to the video. Nicholas describes imagined communities like nations as a way for states to justify their own rule, and briefly mentions that nations replaced other imagined communities, like religion, that older states used to justify themselves.
The idea of religion as an imagined community makes a lot of sense--think of concepts like "Christendom" or "the Muslim world," ways of connecting vast swathes of people (even if, once again, those people will never have any impact on each other's lives) and convincing them to, say, go to war in the interests of the rich and powerful. So I wondered: Do all states require imagined communities to justify themselves? All of them?
What about the Soviet Union?
The USSR definitely wasn't a theocracy, so religion wasn't its imagined community. It was a collection of numerous different states, with their own shared histories and cultures, so nationalism wasn't its imagined community. But I did come up with an answer: the idea of the proletariat. Think about it: "the working class" encompasses a wide variety of different people, containing a lot of different contradictions (like, are restaurant owners a part of the working class or not? What about disabled people who physically can't work?). And most people within the USSR would never know each other--but they had a vague sense of community with each other, which the government of the USSR used to justify its own rule by acting as a representation of that imagined community, the proletariat.
I also think it's telling to look at how Marxist theory defines class. Imagine, for instance, that you're reading the Communist Manifesto or Das Kapital. How awfully convenient is it, that throughout histo
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Hi everyone, Is anyone into Anderson’s theory of Nationalism presented in Imagined Communities? I’m going through it, and trying to sus out the current academic reception of his work, and potential companion pieces to his theories. Thanks!
I’ve never felt proud to be [my nationality] or happy when a team from my home town wins a sporting event or anything like that, what does that joy feel like for those of you who feel it?
Also, what does it feel like when we call these communities imagined? Ex: when you hear “you were never on that team, how can you feel pride for them winning” etc?
My nation-state’s national holiday or whatever is coming up soon, and I’m trying to empathize with people who really deeply enjoy it and feel like is has something to do with them other than being highly effective propaganda.
Edit: What I mean mostly is, does it feel totally real? Or do you feel a little like you’re faking or have to put it on?
a few months ago I posted this post on this sub... so here's an update on how it went:
I ended up starting in Kahrlsruh, Germany and rode the black forest nature park cycling path (clockwise) and instead of going back towards north on the last stage, I went west to Strasbourg ,France.
From there I cycled the wine route of Alsace ( EuroVelo 5 ) all the way down to Basel, Switzerland.
I wanted to keep my options open (as in where to go from there) but I really wasn't sure at this point if I wanted to keep going down towards southern France, stay in Switzerland or explore the south of Germany further...but when I arrived in Switzerland I was invited to stay with friend of a friend in Lausanne.. so I took the train from Basel and stayed in Lausanne for a couple of nights which was definitely one of the highlights of this tour (cycling around lake Geneva is incredible).
from Lausanne I cycled north east towards Lucerne, Switzerland (via Bern) where I had to end my tour and take the train back home to Berlin.here are some pics from this 4 weeks adventure.
this was my first long distance tour and the experience could not have been any better (maybe other then a horrible heat wave on the first week)
I got into cycling only 5 years ago and did all of my rides in and around Berlin (mostly very flat terrain) so I defiantly had no climbing experience and despite being in good shape I underestimated how tough it'll be to climb with a fully loaded touring bike (and like any beginner, I definitely over-packed!)
In-spite of the difficulties, I'm glad I took the hilly roads of the black forest, the views defiantly paid off.. same goes for Switzerland..
despite having far less dramatic scenery, the wine route was probably my favorite part of the tour.. there's just something magical about that place that is hard for me to put into words..
I might write another post on what I learned , tips etc (do we have enough of those on this sub already?) what you learn on your first week of a first big tour is probably worth more than a thousand articles etc..maybe also gear review..what work and what didn't..
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Anderson first argues that the immense communities of “the great sacral cultures […] were imaginable largely through the medium of a sacred language” (p.12-13). Such sacred languages “were gradually fragmented, pluralized, and territorialized,” such as with "the fall of Latin," resulting in an optimal opportunity for nationalism to rise (p.19). He further posits that "print languages laid the bases for national consciousness" (p.44). Print “unified fields of exchange and communication" such that various speakers could understand what was printed (p44). Printed material also constructed an "image of antiquity," allowing an idea of ancient nations to form (p.44). Finally, print-capitalism created "languages-of-power" by empowering particular dialects over others, as with high German, the King’s English, and Central Thai (p.45).
Additionally, the daily newspaper, simultaneously consumed by community members, functioned to construct a community imagination (p.35). One saw fellow community members reading the same newspaper "continually [reassuring] [them] that the imagined world is visibly rooted in everyday life” (p.35-36). Accordingly, print languages facilitated "a fundamental change […] in modes of apprehending the world, […] [making] it possible to 'think' the nation" (p.22). The power of national consciousness is also illustrated in how “dynasts […] [reached] for a ‘national’ cachet” to maintain ruling legitimacy (p.22).
Can someone explain this in simpler words?
I spent about a year as an embarrassed, casual lurker until quarantine shoved more free time at me than I knew what to do with. It was during this time that I consumed more on AO3 than I have ever read elsewhere and became inspired to write some stories of my own. Fast forward to yesterday, when I awoke to a series of notifications from someone who had just binged all seven chapters of my crack fic and left a comment on nearly each one. The messages were so sweet, I had to reply to them all!
My reader just replied back to my last reply, saying that they were glad that I was happy about their random comments, and now I can’t stop smiling. It is so seriously cool to be a part of this chain of kind, wholesome happiness that it makes my eyes water. I had no expectations when I started writing but have since been met with more love and support than I could’ve ever hoped. To experience this much irl fluff from one comment- on an explicit crack fic, no less- boggles my mind and makes me so glad that I started posting. Everyone in this community is just so nice, and I’m proud to be a part of it :)
