Deaf21 is a not for monetary gain website. Its why it doesn’t even have advertising! Who wants those darn adverts popping up everywhere and spoiling one’s attention? Hence its a purely voluntary site and is created by a victim of oralism. Its also in a sense a hobby of sorts, therefore its a site that formulates a job of sorts, a pastime if one likes. What’s more is I am autistic and I would not be accepted in many spheres of socialisation or discussion, so this blog is a sort of pressure valve too. All this is something some deaf have been somewhat unable to appreciate – especially when the autistic aspects of being in a social minefield are amplified considerably. My school experiences were horrific to say the least and it is recognised those school experiences have contributed to the trauma that is now recognised by my social workers and counsellors – besides the abject bullying and lying by hearing people these past two decades and the use of the police as a tool for hearing people’s abject hatred and discrimination against the Deaf.
I an simply not interested, like so many are, in fooling others into thinking I constitute a leader of some sort. Leadership is a sham. So is politics. I have no wish to lead or to direct others or to contrive parameters of hierarchy, difference and so on. Its not my thing. Its exceedingly old fashioned. It might be something humanity loves – which it indeed does – and of course war and conflict is often a result of leaders, and people with problematic backward overbearing views doing their ‘thing.’
Its just not for me. Any kind of hierarchy or dominance is simply unacceptable. So is jealousy, envy or creating rumours or other unpalatable stuff. If one concurs I have no ‘real interests,’ well yes they are right. I am simply boring. I have autism if that helps others to understand a tiny bit about where I am coming from. I am not interesting in any way or form and the social structures that many operationalise are problematic for me. They’re not realities even either especially when one considers how the human world’s make-up gets to be understood in the truest phenomenological sense that it can be analysed. Few have tried to analyse the human world in the way others such as Husserl, Berger and Luckmann, Goffman and even Harari have done. And yes, humans are basically apes trying to be better than the apes that can be found in the real world. But humans being what they are, if only the apes knew what humans were up to, there would indeed be a massive distrust of humanity. Especially with the huge dangers humanity presents.
To change the subject from boring to perhaps somewhat interesting, it must be asserted that in any event, humanity has not in a million years devolve a proper nor true concept of democracy, equality and rights – thus the continued essence of those alliterative endeavours will no doubt quantify humanity’s future for a very long time as it jockeys for the label of being the most evil species in the entire universe. Besides the ensuing nuclear holocaust that could result, let’s consider the murderous genocide of the animal kingdom for a start! Why bother batting an eyelid when it is so irrevocably acceptable and practised on a scale that is most unimaginable? Essentially this is what humanity is all about. It looks the other way whilst numerous horrors endure. And that because humans think they are supreme beings.
It is only if society moves beyond its present limitations that true democracy and faithful equality would occur instead of the fakery that is promulgated. Its not about silence being a means of complicity. The animals are **silent** yet the abuse conducted against most species is massively endemic. There is no democracy or equality or ‘humanity’ of any sort involved in that endeavour and it is in large a considerable reflection of the hypocrisy and fakery that humanity bathes in. Humanity cannot pretend to have any sort of humane altruism or consideration of any sort of equality or fairness for its own self if it cannot also apply those parameters to the animal kingdom.
There would be greater rights and equality too if only some way could be found to negate what can only be an apparent hypocritical stance that those who are silent need no look in. This includes the Deaf and the Non-verbal and other forms of inability to communicate. When that is said, its clear there would be advantages should just one example of the world’s numerous and massively fake benevolences come to an end. This is the oralist stance promoted by Alexander Graham Bell and his abjectly oralist ken. Remember they too thought the Deaf were animals. And this is what sets has historically set a community based on visual communication aside from a society based on oral/aural communication. Those in the latter cannot easily absolve themselves of the contrived thinking that has ensued as a result of extremely outdated views that had originated from an erroneous historicism.
Deaf21 refers to the 21st Century. The site was first published on 21st June 2025 (the longest day) so that’s another way of looking at it! In every sense however the ’21’ refers to the Deaf and the 21st Century. Other more traditional domain names had been considered but Deaf21 was chosen because ultimately its very easy to remember.
The author of this blog has interests in history, linguistics, philosophy, physics, sociology and societal violence. Those subjects led to a BA in Social Science. He is both Deaf and autistic. The author has also been involved in environmental issues and grass roots movements covering rights and oppression. One of his university lecturers – John Keane – is a internationally recognised figure on both politics and violence. Keane is actually from Australia (currently Professor at University of Sydney) however Keane did a number of years in London at both King’s College and University of Westminster. Wikipedia notes his many years in Britain where he was described as ‘one of the world’s leading political thinkers and writers.’
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