Aidan Cornelius-Bell
@aidan.cornelius-bell.com
Activist, academic, several other things.
They cannot seriously confront capital or colonisation without undermining the conditions that keep them in office, so they learn to police the limits of what can be demanded or imagined.
December 4, 2025 at 3:47 AM
They cannot seriously confront capital or colonisation without undermining the conditions that keep them in office, so they learn to police the limits of what can be demanded or imagined.
‘Social democratic’ political parties are structurally captured because their welfare promises depend on continued growth, private investment, and extractive industry.
December 4, 2025 at 3:47 AM
‘Social democratic’ political parties are structurally captured because their welfare promises depend on continued growth, private investment, and extractive industry.
Liberalism is also a colonial technology, built on conquest, dispossession, and the ongoing denial or containment of sovereignty.
December 4, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Liberalism is also a colonial technology, built on conquest, dispossession, and the ongoing denial or containment of sovereignty.
Dialogue and reciprocity — all in a day’s work.
(Or something, I'm just a person on Bluesky, also what is hashtag life post big blue?)
#relation #reciprocity #thinkingoutloud #dialogue #hashtags
(Or something, I'm just a person on Bluesky, also what is hashtag life post big blue?)
#relation #reciprocity #thinkingoutloud #dialogue #hashtags
October 10, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Dialogue and reciprocity — all in a day’s work.
(Or something, I'm just a person on Bluesky, also what is hashtag life post big blue?)
#relation #reciprocity #thinkingoutloud #dialogue #hashtags
(Or something, I'm just a person on Bluesky, also what is hashtag life post big blue?)
#relation #reciprocity #thinkingoutloud #dialogue #hashtags
Knowing is not owning.
To know humbly is to listen, share, and build with.
Keep the circle open; let knowledge breathe as relation, not record.
To know humbly is to listen, share, and build with.
Keep the circle open; let knowledge breathe as relation, not record.
October 10, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Knowing is not owning.
To know humbly is to listen, share, and build with.
Keep the circle open; let knowledge breathe as relation, not record.
To know humbly is to listen, share, and build with.
Keep the circle open; let knowledge breathe as relation, not record.
Bookshelves are tombs of conquest’s knowledge.
To take fresh breath is to answer back to the world that made you — in reciprocity and responsibility.
To take fresh breath is to answer back to the world that made you — in reciprocity and responsibility.
October 10, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Bookshelves are tombs of conquest’s knowledge.
To take fresh breath is to answer back to the world that made you — in reciprocity and responsibility.
To take fresh breath is to answer back to the world that made you — in reciprocity and responsibility.
To be human is to err — to stay human is to repair.
Be faithful to what exceeds you: listen, return, repair again.
Be faithful to what exceeds you: listen, return, repair again.
October 10, 2025 at 11:21 PM
To be human is to err — to stay human is to repair.
Be faithful to what exceeds you: listen, return, repair again.
Be faithful to what exceeds you: listen, return, repair again.
Meaning gathers; truth divides.
The weight of “truth” as universal is an Enlightenment relic.
Integrity dissolves into morality, conquest, and vainglory.
The weight of “truth” as universal is an Enlightenment relic.
Integrity dissolves into morality, conquest, and vainglory.
October 10, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Meaning gathers; truth divides.
The weight of “truth” as universal is an Enlightenment relic.
Integrity dissolves into morality, conquest, and vainglory.
The weight of “truth” as universal is an Enlightenment relic.
Integrity dissolves into morality, conquest, and vainglory.
Community offers a sturdier wisdom.
We don’t seek “truth” — we keep sense alive between us, through the fabric of place.
We don’t seek “truth” — we keep sense alive between us, through the fabric of place.
October 10, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Community offers a sturdier wisdom.
We don’t seek “truth” — we keep sense alive between us, through the fabric of place.
We don’t seek “truth” — we keep sense alive between us, through the fabric of place.
Scholarship without relation becomes bureaucracy;
knowledge without reciprocal humility becomes empire.
knowledge without reciprocal humility becomes empire.
October 10, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Scholarship without relation becomes bureaucracy;
knowledge without reciprocal humility becomes empire.
knowledge without reciprocal humility becomes empire.
Online, architecture rewards immediacy and agreement.
Truth becomes performative resonance: what travels fastest feels truest.
Relational ethics collapse into visibility metrics.
Truth becomes performative resonance: what travels fastest feels truest.
Relational ethics collapse into visibility metrics.
October 10, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Online, architecture rewards immediacy and agreement.
Truth becomes performative resonance: what travels fastest feels truest.
Relational ethics collapse into visibility metrics.
Truth becomes performative resonance: what travels fastest feels truest.
Relational ethics collapse into visibility metrics.
Stay open enough to be changed by love,
and steady enough not to be changed by hate.
and steady enough not to be changed by hate.
October 10, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Stay open enough to be changed by love,
and steady enough not to be changed by hate.
and steady enough not to be changed by hate.
In communities flooded with anger and self-interest, staying true becomes an act of discipline, tenderness, and vigilance.
Ask: does this reaction defend life, or ego?
Does it strengthen relation, or fracture it?
Ask: does this reaction defend life, or ego?
Does it strengthen relation, or fracture it?
October 10, 2025 at 11:21 PM
In communities flooded with anger and self-interest, staying true becomes an act of discipline, tenderness, and vigilance.
Ask: does this reaction defend life, or ego?
Does it strengthen relation, or fracture it?
Ask: does this reaction defend life, or ego?
Does it strengthen relation, or fracture it?
Echo chambers promise safety but deliver solitude.
They trade belonging for blindness.
Truth lives not in agreement, but in encounter — in difference.
They trade belonging for blindness.
Truth lives not in agreement, but in encounter — in difference.
October 10, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Echo chambers promise safety but deliver solitude.
They trade belonging for blindness.
Truth lives not in agreement, but in encounter — in difference.
They trade belonging for blindness.
Truth lives not in agreement, but in encounter — in difference.
Extremists distort the world to their whim — telling themselves and others stories.
And those filled with unprocessed rage become them, or shallower clones.
The louder the echo, the smaller the world it encloses.
And those filled with unprocessed rage become them, or shallower clones.
The louder the echo, the smaller the world it encloses.
October 10, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Extremists distort the world to their whim — telling themselves and others stories.
And those filled with unprocessed rage become them, or shallower clones.
The louder the echo, the smaller the world it encloses.
And those filled with unprocessed rage become them, or shallower clones.
The louder the echo, the smaller the world it encloses.
When truth serves comfort, it becomes propaganda;
when it serves accountability, it becomes justice.
when it serves accountability, it becomes justice.
October 10, 2025 at 11:21 PM
When truth serves comfort, it becomes propaganda;
when it serves accountability, it becomes justice.
when it serves accountability, it becomes justice.
Pathological liberalism reframes fixed truths situationally, or sensationally — breaking its own rules.
When truth serves likeness, it becomes vanity;
when it faces difference, it becomes justice.
When truth serves likeness, it becomes vanity;
when it faces difference, it becomes justice.
October 10, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Pathological liberalism reframes fixed truths situationally, or sensationally — breaking its own rules.
When truth serves likeness, it becomes vanity;
when it faces difference, it becomes justice.
When truth serves likeness, it becomes vanity;
when it faces difference, it becomes justice.
Truth without relation is vanity;
virtue without others is illusion.
But truth is often warped — subjective, partial.
Fixed, it becomes a weapon.
virtue without others is illusion.
But truth is often warped — subjective, partial.
Fixed, it becomes a weapon.
October 10, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Truth without relation is vanity;
virtue without others is illusion.
But truth is often warped — subjective, partial.
Fixed, it becomes a weapon.
virtue without others is illusion.
But truth is often warped — subjective, partial.
Fixed, it becomes a weapon.