Fumiko Kaneko sits on her knees wearing a striped kimono with her hands clasped in front of her, staring intently ahead. c. 1925, author unknown [Wikipedia]
Fumiko Kaneko, born on this day in 1903, was a Japanese anarchist, nihilist, and opponent to Japanese imperialism in Korea. Fumiko is perhaps best remembered for her "The Prison Memoirs Of A Japanese Woman", written while imprisoned after being convicted of high treason against the Japanese government.
Together, Fumiko and her Korean partner Pak Yol published two magazines which highlighted the problems Koreans faced under Japanese imperialism and showed influences of their radical politics. Sometime between 1922 and 1923, they also established a group called "F"utei-sha (Society of Malcontents)", which Fumiko identified as a group for direct action against the government.
These activities soon brought Pak and Fumiko under government scrutiny. In September 1923, the Japanese government therefore made a number of arrests, mostly Koreans, on limited evidence, and among those arrested were Pak and Fumiko.
After lengthy judicial proceedings, Fumiko and Pak were convicted of high treason for attempting to obtain bombs with the intention of killing the emperor or his son. They were both sentenced to life in prison, however Fumiko allegedly committed suicide in her cell in 1926.
Here is a short excerpt from one of Fumiko's interrogations while imprisoned (text by Max Res from theanarchistlibrary.org):
Q: Your class?
A: A divine commoner.
Q: How are you employed?
A: My job is tearing down everything that currently exists.
The Prison Memoirs Of A Japanese Woman
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far future post human hyper inteligent elephant society. my brain spat up this idea and idk what to do with it. be sick tho
elephants are neat, I fw elephants
Imagine hearing another elephant call you a lib who steps on their own tail and you can't even defend yourself because they're 6 miles away
This is the lore of Babar I think
I would fuck with an eco sci Fi about the farming challenges of people who need to eat several tons of foliage each day.
Do they still live in herds like elephants? Do they migrate or make permanent housing? Do they have elaborate technology, and if so, how does it interface with trunks rather than with fingers? What sort of social norms and faux pas do they consider with respect to those giant hypersensitive ears?
Give me answers to these questions NOW
I think they would live in social units. you could call it a 'herd' if you wanted to. yeah I considered them to have some form of technology and ofc it would be based around their trunks, they already use them to manipulate tools like we do. a big faux pas in elephantine society would be when you and your boys go on too loud a run at unsociable hours, it can be heard for miles
Your answer is received
(Now remains the last and most important question: of what does the elephantine dream?
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The blue remembered earth trilogy has a society of elephants that were selectively bread a little and tought to read and they just ended up being chill homies.
Closest I've read is Footfall by Niven and Pournelle, wherein elephant-type aliens invade an approximately modern earth