Febrero 2011
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“If you assume that there is no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope....”
– Noam Chomsky (via mohandasgandhi)
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“Understanding, and action proceeding from understanding and guided by it, is one...”
– James Agee
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Enero 2011
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Being There
it’s what matters.
Today my mother found out that her best friend from childhood was buried this morning - having died from cancer. Time and time again she’s put off reconnecting with her due to “hectic life” and now she’ll never have the chance. She didn’t even know to make it to the funeral and only found out coincidentally because my uncle works at the...
whiskeyblood-deactivated2011021 ha preguntado: so, uhh... marry me?
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“If you are advertising any product, never see the factory in which it was...”
– Helen Woodward, leading woman copywriter of the 1920’s
Taken from Stuart Ewen’s Captains of Consciousness
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Word of the Day: Obfuscate
To make so confused or opaque as to be difficult to perceive or understand.
Obfuscation is the concealment of intended meaning in communication, making communication confusing, intentionally ambiguous and more difficult.
No, word of the day is not something that I do. but I just learned that word and not only is it fun to say but I’d say it’s pretty useful. At the very least you...
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“As there are billions of stars
There are billions of steps.
As there are...”
– Rumi (via fuckyeahrumi)
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All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is...
shoutabout-it:
Over the past few days I’ve come across some really great resources that have pointed out ways for people around the world to help support the protesters in Egypt and I thought it would be a good idea to make a list so that all of the information could be found in one place. Here’s what we can do to help:
Fatima posted this letter a few days ago with some great resources from...
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oh no
i had a tumblr based dream.
what has my life come to?
actually all the dreams last night were absolutely treacherous….
ugh. there were so many people present that I never though I’d see again… and in reality probably wont. ajksbdgabdvkadnv
never talking about those dreams again. okay bye.
“Difficult times have helped me understand better than before how infinitely rich...”
– Karen Blixen (via gbenjio)
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“Youth should be radical. Youth should demand change in the world. Youth should...”
– William Allen White
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whitehotcenter replied to your post: January in Reading…
What’s on the list for February?
I’m a hugely impulsive reader. I can’t predetermine when I’ll read things.. I just buy anything and everything I find that looks promising so that I have a small personal library that I can go to whenever I’m in the need of new pages to read. Also I’m very particular...
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“Consumption is the name given to the new doctrine; and it is admitted today to...”
– Mrs. Christine Frederick, Selling Mrs. Consumer (1923)
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January in Reading...
the activity, not the city of Pennsylvania, nor the Railroad from Monopoly.
I’ve decided to make a post at the end of each month listing the books I’ve read in full during that month. Of course there’s some stuff I read intermittently, such as poetry collections, short story collections, text books, et cetera.. those won’t be listed here. If you care to discuss any of...
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“The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty...”
– John Berger (via rossencraft)
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“For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more...”
– Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy)
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tonight
in and sluggish so hit me up. I’ll probably finish The Metamorphosis real quick and watch a movie.
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Why Egypt’s popular rebellion is the greatest... →
If you read anything today, make it this. Understand the relationship between the U.S. and Egypt. Be proud of the Egyption people for persuing their freedom. Know the World around you.
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Linking the theories of “self-conciousness” to the exigencies of capitalism, one writer in Printers’ Ink commented that “advertising helps to keep the masses dissatisfied with their mode of life, discontented with ugly things around them. Satisfied customers are not as profitable as discontended ones.”
An excerpt from Stuart Ewen’s Captains of Conciousness:...
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“a bad trip? this whole country, this whole world is on a bad trip, friend, but...”
– Charles Bukowski (via henrycharlesbukowski)
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“Things are better for us fellows than they used to be, but if a few people keep...”
– An Iowa meat-packing plant employee in the late 1920’s
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"Maturity"
It seems to me that as we grow older we’re expected to be more selective with the company we keep. I don’t know where this tradition came from, or exactly what to make of it but it just became clear to me. Let me illustrate, in a simple fashion, what I mean.
Imagine being in elementary school. Wasn’t it generally true that everyone was your friend? Aren’t there group...
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“It is dreadful when something weighs on your mind, not to have a soul to...”
– Frédéric Chopin (via silverfoxes)
“24,000 people die every single day from hunger and hunger related diseases. And...”
– John Perkins (via cipotaaa)
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Having
gone through the American High School system I’d really like to ask….
why the fuck don’t we teach about the complexities of the Civil Rights movement?
Modern education just paints the picture that African Americans were enslaved until Lincoln came and saved the day, and then that racism persisted until Martin Luther King came along and ended segregation. Dualistic History...
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“I spend my days preparing for life, not preparing for death… They haven’t...”
– Mumia Abu Jamal (via jaysmithphoto)
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“Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on. I hope you...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (via talkinlikeateen)
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“For some reason, the most vocal Christians among us never mention the...”
– Kurt Vonnegut (via fuckyeahchristianradicalism)
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maybe it’s just me but really, I think The...
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My Day
Was spent enjoying winter in Letchworth State Park. A friend of mine had a family get together in a rented cabin and since his mom LOOVES us the whole crew road out there to partake in the festivities. Stopped at a thrift store on the way.. the place was wall to wall floor to ceiling..stuff. just stuff. there was a nice yellow type writer I considered buying for only 5 dollars but the ribbon...