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Repost from Neomalignant - no longer an act.
Earlier I came across a post on a friend’s channel (shoutout Dew) about why what happened in Nepal won’t happen in Iraq.
The argument was simple the generation that should be capable of such a Herculean task carries the very same thoughts, ideologies, and beliefs as the one before it.
This made me think of Foucault’s idea of the episteme.
For Foucault, it isn’t just knowledge in the ordinary sense.
It’s the underlying structure of thought in a given historical moment the rules that decide what can be known, what counts as truth, and even what is possible to imagine.
These structures are shaped by power, institutions, and material conditions, quietly dictating the horizon of what is thinkable in any society.
In Nepal, the unthinkable recently happened. A government ban on social media triggered youth led protests that escalated into street clashes, dozens of deaths, and the resignation of the prime minister.
But what made this moment singular wasn’t only the politics or violence it was how the rebellion spilled onto Discord, where young people debated, voted, and experimented with forms of democracy that made the state itself temporarily irrelevant.
But in the age of globalization, why wouldn’t something like that happen in Libya or Iraq or any of the arab speaking countries?
Here lies the crucial point: an episteme isn’t universal.
It’s shaped by the words, concepts, and social habits a population can even think.
Orwell understood this in 1984, where controlling vocabulary meant controlling thought.
In Libya and Iraq, our “ministry of truth” has succeeded concepts like dignity, human rights, or individuality have been eroded or erased demonized in some cases.
You can scroll through the internet, watch the world, and share memes but if the epistemic scaffolding isn’t there, the leap from awareness to action is impossible. Globalization can work its magic elsewhere, but where the episteme is disciplined so tightly, unthinkable acts remain unthinkable.
Nepal acts as a reminder that revolutions aren’t just political they are epistemic.
And until the structures of thought in libya or iraq shift, such moments will remain out of reach.
Repost from Cԋαʅƙ Zσɳҽ ᝰ
There it is its literally her in Snoopy style with her master's thesis which was about volcanos
