February 2012
13 posts
“We protect our minds by an elaborate system of abstractions, ambiguities,...”
– Aldous Huxley, Words and Behavior (via untilasinglesolitonsurvives)
“Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your...”
– Franz Kafka (via human-voices)
“The real world is where you take pictures for... →
modernandmaterialthings:
“Documentary vision is kind of like the “camera eye” photographers develop when, after taking many photos, they begin to see the world as always a potential photo even when not holding the camera at all. The habit of the photographer involuntarily framing and composing the world has become a metaphor for those trained to document using social media. The explosion of...
“I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does...”
– Eugene Debs(via thoughtfulchild)
January 2012
46 posts
“There is an Indian proverb that says that everyone is a house with four rooms, a...”
– Rumer Godde (via myownairport)
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Occupy the Food System by Willie Nelson →
leftish:
Thanks to the Occupy Wall Street movement, there’s a deeper understanding about the power that corporations wield over the great majority of us. It’s not just in the financial sector, but in all facets of our lives. The disparity between the top 1 percent and everyone else has been laid bare — there’s no more denying that those at the top get their share at the expense of the 99...
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“…This feeling of adventure definitely does not come from events: I have proved it. It’s rather the way in which the moments are linked together. I think this is what happens: you suddenly feel that time is passing, that each instant leads to another, this and that it isn’t worth while to hold it back, etc., etc. And then you attribute this property to events which...
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“…When I found myself on the Boulevard de la Redoute again nothing was left but bitter regret. I said to myself: Perhaps there is nothing in the world I cling to as much as this feeling of adventure; but it comes when it pleases; it is gone so quickly and how empty I am once it has left. Does it, ironically, pay me these short visits in order to show me that I have wasted my...
“When such differences in perception and belief are grounded in, or at least...”
– Lawrence Bobo on the prospects of a post-racial society. (via nortonsoc)
“The unexamined life is not worth living.” But the introspective exercise is only...”
– “The River Cottage Meat Book” by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall (via outdoor-protestant)
“The basic confrontation which seemed to be colonialism versus anti-colonialism,...”
– Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (via quotemarx)
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Horrifying Statistics regarding the Lakotah... →
tsotchke:
thegoddamazon:
Yooooo…I had absolutely no idea it was this bad, man.
MORTALITY:
Lakotah men have a life expectancy of less than 44 years, lowest of any country in the World (excluding AIDS) including Haiti.
Lakotah death rate is the highest in the United States.
The Lakotah infant mortality rate is 300% more than the U.S. Average.
One out of every four Lakotah children born are...
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“Success, recognition and conformity are the bywords of the modern world where everyone seems to crave the anesthetizing security of being identified with the majority.”- Martin Luther King, Jr
Swedish Lesson #4
ckck:
Å [å:] and Ö [ö:]
Å and ö are not only letters in the Swedish alphabet (a-ring and o-umlaut) but they’re also the Swedish words for a small river and island, respectively. As such, Sweden’s second largest island Öland translates literally into the rather awkward “Island land” in English, but most often the ö (and å) is tacked on the end of the name, like Fårö (Sheep Island).
The only...
“Our ability to reconstruct the past, to interpret the present, and to construct...”
– Legendary Stanford psychologist Philip Zimbardo in one of 7 essential books on time (via curiositycounts)
“Self-control is something for which I do not strive. Self-control means wanting...”
– Franz Kakfa, Aphorisms (1918). (via fuckyeahexistentialism)