February 2012
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cut the crap
the concentration of 'you' here is higher than you...
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The spectacular consumption that preserves past culture in congealed form, including coopted rehashes of its negative manifestations, gives overt expression in its cultural sector to what it implicitly is in its totality: the communication of the incommunicable. The most extreme destruction of language can be officially welcomed as a positive development because it amounts to yet one more way...
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A revolutionary organization must constitute an integral critique of society, that is, it must make a comprehensive critique of all aspects of alienated social life while refusing to compromise with any form of separate power anywhere in the world. In the organization’s struggle with class society, the combattants themselves are the fundamental weapons: a revolutionary organization must thus see...
Killing In The Name // Rage Against the Machine
...
do you ever see someone and think oh my god i would like to be responsible for your next orgasm
“If an elementary school student has an excellent teacher even for a single year,...”
– Raj Chetty, professor of economics at Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences and a co-author of the study with Harvard Kennedy School’s John Friedman and Columbia Business School’s Jonah Rockoff. (Harvard Gazette)
AKA why teachers should be paid more and we should be working to retain the best and...
“Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in...”
– Buddha
thetruthisone:
Under total oppression you seek freedom; under total freedom you seek some form of oppression. In a dream you are flying, forever it seems. There is nothing but clouds of endless blue and white light. And then, what appears in the distance? An island? A city perhaps? And yet, you know it is a dream, and that if you land, you might forget how to fly again; forget that it’s a...
“He who does not desire power is fit to hold it.”
– Plato
“1. Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Lose track of the 400...”
– John Steinbeck on “how to keep from going nuts” while writing.
From Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 45.
via openculture which also has a great video of Steinbeck’s 1962 acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize for Literature.
(via kenyatta)
Thoughts are Things →
Via: http://theosophywatch.com/2012/02/23/thoughts-are-things/
Thoughts are Things
EMBARRASSMENT can be, well, embarrassing — especially if you tend to blush in public. We recognize in this, in ourselves and others, a real yet scientifically inexplicable effect.
Even a…
click through
When you remember you have something delicious...
veganpizzafuckyeah:
But then you mom tells you she threw it away because she didn’t think you were going to eat it
MOMS AND DADS OF EARTH, YOU’VE BEEN WARNED.
"As a taxpayer, I favor issuing drug tests to...
Streetlight Manifesto Proudly Boycotts Itself →
ziriam:
Hello all
For the sake of keeping things emotion-free and legal, we’ll cut straight to the chase and forgo the insults and accusations:
It is and has been for quite some time our position that Victory Records is an artist-hostile, morally corrupt and generally dishonest company, with whom we have had the displeasure of being associated due to a contract that was signed years ago....
the intellectual is anyone who recognizes the need for analytical thought
“my mind is
a big hunk of irrevocable nothing which touch and taste and smell...”
– my mind is, by e. e. cummings (via anewterror)
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genius style
she has a boyfriend,
- i bet he’s sultry; tastes like spaghetti
but her smile is revealing
- she won’t see him forever - maybe longer than i, though.
a little deviant with those uneven eyes
- the rasping voice, perfect lips, genius style
too much for me, undeserving. masochist?
(from my notebook)
“i bet he’s sultry; tastes like spaghetti”
that’s my...
I'M NOT GOING ON MEDICATION
scrollinglifeaway:
Seriously why does everyone want to drug me up?
Put me on the back of a horse if you wanna cure my depression and anxiety, don’t send me to the doctor so I can swallow some pills. All I’d need is to to smoke weed anyway, but that’s obviously that’s not going to be prescribed to me any time soon.
Fuck Rx America
All of the people who are trying to convince me to get on them...
“I am astonished, disappointed, pleased with myself. I am distressed, depressed,...”
– C.G. Jung, near the end of his life, in Memories, Dreams (via fuckyeahcarljung)
