“It is the sphere farthest removed from the concreteness of society which may show most clearly the extent of the conquest of thought by society.”
— Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man (via philosophybits)
This group of statues of ancient Egyptian pike men was found in the tomb of
Mesehti, a local governor of
Asyut
at the end of the First Intermediate Period and the beginning of the Middle Kingdom.
The group consists of forty soldiers arranged in ten lines. They are colored reddish brown, their strong tan indicating their continuous and elaborate open-air training. They have a tidy hair cut which covers their ears and a very short kilt to facilitate movement, and they carry lances and shields. The artist varied the decorations on the shields to add interest and break up the monotony of the group, and also portrayed them with different facial features and heights to create liveliness. This further accentuated by the eyes which show their alertness and strength. while their representation in parallel lines and advancing their left legs creates a rhythm that imbues the group with still more animation.
Middle Kingdom, 11th Dynasty, around 2000 BC. Now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo.
JE 30986
No, we lived in the blessed timeline, because the creator of a harmless webcomic character that got turned into a meme sued the shit out of neo-nazis for stealing his art and using it to recruit kids to their fucked up ideology.
He also sued to keep a far-right recruitment book for children from being published that tried to use Pepe. If he was ignoring or embracing this use of his characters and letting it happen, then it would be cursed. But instead he’s suing these Nazis and getting their money. Good for him.
