January 2012
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“He, on the other, who really could sympathise therewith, would have to despair...”
– Nietzsche, Human, All-Too-Human
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INCOME INEQUALITY IS BAD FOR SOCIETY. REALLY BAD. →
occupyonline:
“Societies with more income inequality have higher infant death rates than other societies:
Societies with more income inequality have higher rates of mental illness than other societies:
Societies with more income inequality have a higher incidence of drug use than other societies:
Societies with more income inequality have a higher high school drop out rate than other...
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“Nobody made a greater mistake then he who did nothing because he could only do a...”
– Edmund Burke (via stationmile)
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Occupy All Streets: Know Your Rights & Make... →
thepeoplesrecord:
occupyallstreets:
Know Your Rights & Make Informed Choices When You Encounter Police During Occupy Congress
✓ If the police approach you:
Ask: “Am I free to leave?” to find out if you are being detained.
If the police say yes, you are free to go. You are NOT being detained and you should leave.
If they say no, you are not free to go. You are being detained/arrested...
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“Communism deprives no man of the power to appropriate the products of society;...”
– Marx and Engels - The Communist Manifesto (via liberalsocialist)
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“I don’t want to earn my living; I want to live.”
– Oscar Wilde (via abstraktum, reluctantbuddha) (via pyrrhic-victoria)
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2012 for conservatives... I feel ya, kinda
I’m not sure if I actually empathize with conservatives or merely find it amusing that they deal with the same structural and electoral issues that progressives deal with in electing lawmakers. Short of something very dramatic happening, Romney will win the nomination, almost as if by default — a candidate that a super-majority of Republicans don’t even support or even want...
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“Injustice and filth they throw after the lonely one; but, my brother, if you...”
– Nietzsche (via eidophusikon)
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theweightofemptiness asked: I may be showing just how much of a novice marxist I am, but I've found Marx to have found a real connection to human nature that I find difficult to find anywhere else. Your point is a valid one, still. Marx should be freely redacted and extrapolated from.
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“Nothing makes people more neurotic than the expectation that they should be...”
– The Economist (via quiettemperament)
yes yes yes. as zizek said, “pleasure has become a duty”
(via theweightofemptiness)
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“And on the subject of burning books: I want to congratulate librarians, not...”
– Kurt Vonnegut (via accidentalism)
“If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely...”
– E.B. White (via accidentalism)
“The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive...”
– Franz Kafka (via accidentalism)
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“O man, take care!
What does the deep midnight declare?
“I was asleep—...”
– Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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“I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my...”
– (via androxis)
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Existence →
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