i have sometimes dreamed that from time to time hours detached themselves from the lives of angels and came here below to pass through the destiny of man
The completely successful normalisation of left handedness in my native culture with zero negative consequences is inspiring to me. It is a deepseated neurological feature! Which correlates with lots of important facts about a person! And was the focus of a long history of violent brain-damaging child abuse! And now is so completely unremarkable as to hardly even be interesting
Today’s youth (at least here) don’t remember it but the times when left-handed people were forced to use his right hand are not that far. My grandpa is forcibly-taught right-hander (as we call them here) and he’s 84. My dad who’s 52 would be forced right-hander if he was like 5 years older.
Like, it’s not sone überdistant future. Dexterity is doom. Sinister people gained freedom mere 50 years ago. And I’m pretty sure there are places where they’re still oppressed and forced right.
This isn’t a joke. This is 100% the truth. My grandma was beaten by teachers as a child for being lefty. She rebelled and is still a lefty today as point of pride.
my gran was left handed and got so abused for it that she still hates writing at the age of 78. She still writes with her right hand too, and complains that she could never learn to draw. Cruelty inflicted in the past is still hurting in the present.
My pèpè (grandfather) was left-handed, and the only reason he got to stay that way was because the first time the nuns at his catholic school tried to punish him for it, his mom, a 4'11 French lady, went and threatened the catholic nuns so hard that my grandfather became the only left-handed child in the school
Lights like these not only mess with humans’ sleep schedules but are awful for wildlife by screwing with their natural routines as well as some animals migratory patterns if they navigate or orient themselves via the moon and stars
