December 2010
94 posts
stfucapitalists:
“Sell a man a fish, he eats for a day, teach a man how to fish, you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.”
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Karl Marx (via andreaisace)
The capitalist mantra.
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taotehching:
Heaven-and-Earth is not sentimental;
It treats all things as straw-dogs.
The Sage is not sentimental;
He treats all his people as straw-dogs.
Between Heaven and Earth,
There seems to be a Bellows:
It is empty, and yet it is inexhaustible;
The more it works, the more comes out of it.
No amount of words can fathom it:
Better look for it within you.
Fulminate of Mercury
fuckyeahradicalquotes:
“Since much of the pedagogy of domination is brought to us in the United States by mass media, particularly via television, I rarely watch TV. No one, no matter how intelligent and skillful at critical thinking, is protected against the subliminal suggestions that imprint themselves on our unconscious brain if we are watching hours and hours of television. In the United...
Seriously laughing hard right now...
…I was just listening to a jam that I recorded on my laptop last July, analyzing and enjoying it. It was Spencer, Glen, and I who were jamming this day and we had a really good session. We got about two and a half hours of improvised music from this jam-sesh and it’s quite groovy. This might have been our most recent jam if I am not mistaken - so yea: it’s been a while since...
Chris Hedges: 2011: A Brave New Dystopia →
veganoclastic:
The two greatest visions of a future dystopia were George Orwell’s “1984” and Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World.” The debate, between those who watched our descent towards corporate totalitarianism, was who was right. Would we be, as Orwell wrote, dominated by a repressive surveillance and security state that used crude and violent forms of control? Or would we be, as Huxley...
“Only those who are like children will enter into My Kingdom.”
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– Matthew 19:14
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Dr. Seuss
EDIT: this is my 666th post by the way. Ironic or meaningful?
When I stare out at the stars...
…standing up with my head tilted back, there are sometimes brief moments of weightlessness as if I am about to float out into space. I lose my balance and stumble forward, feeling jerked out of a dream. My soul, trying as hard as it could to escape this body, pulling it upward as it struggles to move toward the cosmos, ultimately fails and falls back to earth when the brain tells it,...
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taotehching:
When the people are no longer afraid of death,
Why scare them with the spectre of death?
If you could make the people always afraid,
And they still persisted in breaking the law,
Then you might with reason arrest and execute them,
And who would dare to break the law?
Is not the Great Executor always there to kill?
To do the killing for the Great Executor
Is to chop wood for...
African Huts Far From the Grid Glow With Renewable... →
As small-scale renewable energy becomes cheaper, more reliable and more efficient, it is providing the first drops of modern power to people who live far from slow-growing electricity grids and fuel pipelines in developing countries. Although dwarfed by the big renewable energy projects that many industrialized countries are embracing to rein in greenhouse gas emissions, these tiny systems are...
“An execution is not simply death. It is just as different from the privation of...”
– Albert Camus (via azspot)
“Before you speak, ask yourself: is it kind, is it necessary, is it true, does it...”
– Sai Baba (via oceanofmind)
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-12-19) →
Medeski, Martin and Wood (20)
Tortoise (18)
Phantom Planet (17)
Jesu (13)
God Is an Astronaut (12)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
onepagemanifesto:
iamwhoiamandidontgiveadamn:
onepagemanifesto:
anglophonic:
I would cut my own arm off with a rusty saw.
…if American students had the balls to shut down D.C. like this. Keep in mind that Britain is crawling with 24 hour video surveillance and these English kids STILL fuck shit up.
Heroes, all of you.
This is great stuff.
What I’m not too sure about, though, is the...
“An anarchist is someone who doesn’t need a cop to make him behave.”
– Ammon Hennacy (via creedminusgun)
azspot:
“The simple truth is that public sentiment in America is the reason that solitary confinement has exploded in this country, even as other Western nations have taken steps to reduce it. This is the dark side of American exceptionalism. With little concern or demurral, we have consigned tens of thousands of our own citizens to conditions that horrified our highest court a century ago. Our...
Neurocardiology
- 65% of all heart cells are neural cells identical to those found in the brain.
- The heart is a glandular powerhouse of the body: it produces strong hormones which effect mind, brain and body functions.
- The heart produces 2.5 watts of electricity with every pump creating an electromagnetic field in and around us identical to that of the earth’s.
- Reports and accounts have shown that...
“Great numbers of children will be born who understand electronics and atomic...”
– Edgar Cayce
Wow...
…the Videogame Game Awards (from Spike) are fuckin’ stupid. The nominees for Best Character were Kratos (God of War), Ezio (Assassin’s Creed 2 and Brotherhood), John Marston (Red Dead Redemption) and some jackass soldier from a Call of Duty game.
The jackass soldier boy won. What the hell? Aren’t there like 30 of these characters in every shooter that’s been released...
Re-Imagining the 21st Century →
I submitted this to the Tumblr known as OnePageManifesto. It’s a really good idea for a blog so I gave a submission.
garrettcz:
“Coming back to capitalism is like walking into a brick wall. It’s like being hurled into the middle ages. It’s like returning from the future to a place where everyone thinks it was just a dream you had and you say, “No really, I was in a country without advertising, where all the doctors are free and anyone who wants to can go to graduate school without going into debt, and people...
Watchleninology:
Press TV reports the presence of potential agents provocateurs at the Day X protest on 9th December 2010.
You know almost EVERY riot is started by disguised cops or intelligence agents. Sure many of them are organic riots from the protestors (look at Greece these days), but that’s not usually the case. It’s the only way demonstrations will end (cops can now disperse...