So I’m working on a research paper in which I’m inquiring into the Gross National Happiness of Bolivia in comparison to that of the U.S. For this I’ve made up a survey that I’m trying to distribute as wideley as I can amongst people in the U.S. and, of course, a Spanish version amongst people in Bolivia. Within is the short survey that could potentially be filled out every day (at the end of the day.) As often as you’re able/willing I’d appreciate your answers. You can send it to joshuapatrickmurphy@gmail.com. Please share this with anyone you think may be interested as well. Thank you all very much. ciao for now.
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"Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue. Their most destructive untruth is that it is very easy for any American to make money. They will not acknowledge how in fact hard money is to come by, and, therefore, those who have no money blame and blame and blame themselves. This inward blame has been a treasure for the rich and powerful, who have had to do less for their poor, publicly and privately, than any other ruling class since, say, Napoleonic times."
— Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five
"Tricia Rose (1994), in her study of the meanings of rap music in contemporary America, argues that rap should be understood as a mass-mediated critique of the underlying ideology of mainstream American society. Rap presents an alternative interpretation—a different story—of the ways power and authority are structured in contemporary society. Robin D. G. Kelley (1994) argues that some rap lyrics are “intended to convey a sense of social-realism” that “loosely resembles a sort of street ethnography of racist institutions and social practices, but told more often than not in the first person"
— Media Society
"Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs."
—
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
words to live by.
"But I have to say this in defense of humankind: In no matter what era in history, including the Garden of Eden, everybody just got here. And, except for the Garden of Eden, there were already all these games going on that could make you act crazy, even if you weren’t crazy to begin with. Some of the crazymaking games today are love and hate, liberalism and conservatism, automobiles and credit cards, golf, and girls basketball."
— Kurt Vonnegut’s A Man Without a Country: Do You Know What a Twerp Is?
"Margie Young-Hunt was an attractive woman, informed, clever;so clever that she knew when and how to mask her cleverness. Her marriages had failed, the men had failed; one by being weak, and the second weaker—he died. Dates did not come to her. She created them, mended her fences by frequent telephone calls, by letters, get well cards, and arranged accidental meetings. She carried homemade soup to the sick and remembered birthdays. By these means she kept people aware of her existence."
—
First paragraph of Chapter XII of John Steinbeck’s The Winter of Our Discontent
(If anyone ever reads my copy of this book I hope the annotation that says “beautiful fucking paragraph” makes them reread it, I read it four times before going any further in the novel. Steinbeck’s a master.)
