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Many of Zionism’s basic rationales were thinly veiled Judaizations of core Christian colonial conceptions: Terra Nullius, the claim that continents like Australia were effectively empty because their Indigenous inhabitants were categorized as less than fully human, became “A land without a people for a people without a land”28—a phrase adopted by many Zionists and that originated with nineteenth-century Christians. Manifest Destiny became “land bequeathed to the Jews by divine right.” “Taming the wild frontier” became “making the desert bloom.”
In many ways a timeless cautionary tale, Kindred, with its symbolic demonstration of the tragic truth that social progress is reversible, is especially relevant now. As our world is transformed by political shifts, we must remain conscious of this, and, like Dana, arm ourselves with all that might be needed to protect our freedoms.
Kindred
Octavia E. Butler
Automation bias means that technology doesn’t even have to malfunction for it to be a threat to our lives – and GPS is again a familiar culprit. In their attempt to reach an island in Australia, a group of Japanese tourists drove their car down onto a beach and directly into the sea because their satellite navigation system assured them there was a viable road.
New Dark Age
James Bridle
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