September 2011
August 2011
“How nice—to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.”
—Kurt Vonnegut (via tb0t)
Blackbird
The Beatles
Blackbird-The Beatles
“It isn’t the first tea party to leave historic after-effects on this country, but it may turn out to be just as important as the original, a frenzied act of property destruction that Thomas Jefferson himself called cowardly because the perpetrators pretended to be Indians. This time around they are pretending to be patriots.”
—Mike Ruskovich (via slaughterhousefive)
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You don’t have to get a job that makes others feel comfortable about what they perceive as your success. You don’t have to explain what you plan to do with your life. You don’t have to justify your education by demonstrating its financial rewards. You don’t have to maintain an impeccable credit score. Anyone who expects you to do any of those things has no sense of history or economics or science or the arts.
You have to pay your own electric bill. You have to be kind. You have to give it all you got. You have to find people who love you truly and love them back with the same truth.
But that’s all.
” —Dear Sugar, The Rumpus (via brklyn)
I want this on my wall.
(via laughterkey)
“No, listen, what happened was this: they lied to you, sold you ideas of good & evil, gave you distrust of your body & shame for your prophethood of chaos, invented words of disgust for your molecular love, mesmerized you with inattention, bored you with civilization & all its usurious emotions. There is no becoming, no revolution, no struggle, no path; already you’re the monarch of your own skin—your inviolable freedom waits to be completed only by the love of other monarchs: a politics of dream, urgent as the blueness of sky.”
—Hakim Bey. T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism. New York: Autonomedia 1991. (via soulmilk)
“For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can’t readily accept the God formula, the big answers don’t remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command or faith a dictum. I am my own God. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.”
—Charles Bukowski (via graved)
“You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too. No, I think there was too rigid a pattern. You came out of an education and are supposed to know your vocation. Your vocation is fixed, and maybe ten years later you find you are not a teacher anymore or you’re not a painter anymore. It may happen. It has happened. I mean Gauguin decided at a certain point he wasn’t a banker anymore; he was a painter. And so he walked away from banking. I think we have a right to change course. But society is the one that keeps demanding that we fit in and not disturb things. They would like you to fit in right away so that things work now.”
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Anaïs Nin (via nagging)
(via vespertinemoments)
“Stars, hide your fires!
Let not light see my black and deep desires.” —Macbeth (via ladylilith13)
Let not light see my black and deep desires.” —Macbeth (via ladylilith13)
Sparrowhawk: cavemen in office buildings →
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I was just thinking today, that I only have something like 20 days of school left before I graduate. And then, there won’t be any more busywork or worksheets; no ‘coloured mind maps’ to make. I won’t miss that, but there is an aspect to it I will miss— the losing yourself in it, the work giving…
“Now I think of no one any more. I don’t even bother looking for words. It flows in me, more or less quickly. I fix nothing, I let it go. Through the lack of attaching myself to words, my thoughts remain nebulous most of the time. They sketch vague, pleasant shapes and then are swallowed up: I forget them almost immediately.”
—Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea (via beautifulcommunication)
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One day I was just sobbing, and I called up a friend of mine, Jeanette Armstrong, who is an Okanagan Indian, writer and activist.
I said to her, “This work is just killing me. It’s breaking my heart.”
And she said, “Yeah, it’ll do that.”
And I said, “The dominant culture hates everything, doesn’t it?”
And she said, “Yeah, it does. Even itself.”
And I said, “It has a death urge, doesn’t it?”
And she said, “Yeah, it does.”
And I said, “Unless it’s stopped it’s going to kill everything on the planet, isn’t it?”
And she said, “Yeah, it is. Unless it’s stopped.”
And then I said, “We’re not going to make it to some great new glorious tomorrow, are we?”
And she thought for a moment and then she said the best thing she could possibly say, which was, “I’ve been waiting for you to say that.”
” —Derrick Jensen (via cultureofresistance)
“This crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a preparation for his future career. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by a educational system which would be oriented toward social goals. In such an economy, the means of production are owned by society itself and are utilized in a planned fashion. A planned economy, which adjusts production to the needs of the community, would distribute the work to be done among all those able to work and would guarantee a livelihood to every man, woman and child. The education of the individual, in addition to promoting his own innate abilities, would attempt to develop in him a sense of responsibility for his fellow-men in place of the glorification of power and success in our present society.”
—Albert Einstein, On Education, 1949 (via cultureofresistance)
