If a war liberates a woman in a country you’ve never heard of, and no one posts about it on social media, did the liberation even happen?
from oreoreore@lemy.lol to showerthoughts@lemmy.world on 03 Mar 13:18
https://lemy.lol/post/61970854

Liberation isn’t just an event, it’s a story we tell each other to remember it’s possible. A war might topple a regime, a law might grant rights, but if no one sees it, if it doesn’t ripple through the collective imagination, it’s just a tree falling in the forest of history. The real work isn’t the act itself; it’s the echo. Without witnesses, even victory is just a footnote. And in the age of algorithms, if the echo doesn’t go viral, did the tree ever make a sound?

How do we even know what liberation is if not for the drumbeat that announces it through the ages.

#showerthoughts