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“Vulgar socialism […] has taken over from the bourgeois economists the...”
– Karl Marx, Critique of the Gotha Programme (via rethinksocialism) I never understood why even socialists only talk about socialism in terms of just giving people more stuff. It’s about people having equal power, freedom, and opportunity, not simply by spreading around the wealth, but by...
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“Using state-level data for the period 1990 through 2007, we estimate the effect...”
– Study: suicide rates fall when states legalize medical marijuana
(via anticapitalist)
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10 Excellent Reasons To Attack Iran →
disobey:
Iran has threatened to fight back if attacked, and that’s a war crime. War crimes must be punished.
My television says Iran has nukes. I’m sure it’s true this time. Just like with North Korea. I’m sure they’re next. We only bomb places that really truly have nukes and are in the Axis of Evil. Except Iraq, which was different.
Iraq didn’t go so badly. Considering how lousy its...
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“We are all a little weird and life’s a little weird, and when we find someone...”
– (via bemybtch)
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“I see things vis a vis a sea change
Full fathom five people became remains deep...”
– Flobots, Whips and Chains
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What's in an online self?
Think of someone who’s tumblr you really like, but have never met face-to-face. In what relation do you stand to that blogger’s essence? What is the aggregation of information and ideational expression that we produce when we create avatars, and interact with others via the internet? There is presumably no limit on the amount of information about oneself which can be communicated...
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slow the fuck down
Was there any sincerity the last ten times you uttered the phrase “how are you?” Routine makes life easy, easy life numbs the soul. Surely growth and excitement are both only experienced alongside challenge and change. But what’s new about the cycles of the moon, let alone your day? The most comforting structures are actually the best at suffocating you. And if you sacrifice...
fate's whisper
a tragedy to behold
with reflection’s lonely gaze
a beautifully broken lover
blessed with cracks of too much humanity.
known too early, appreciated too late
the tragic joke fate whispers.
amor fati, amor fati
but where is there another sun? my days may never be as bright,
but at least now I appreciate the light.
my truest equal, my truest friend i wish we could relive that...
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Free from what?
Can freedom be unqualified? Is it just unrestricted action? Or the ability to act? Is a person more free in a city or in the wilderness? I think the concept of freedom might just be illusory in that we construct it to be synonymous with whatever structure allows for the type of action which one prefers. In relation to society I know I can never be free. I think this is why I have felt solidarity...
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Is it too late?
Are humans too malleable? Too easily dominated, brainwashed, and domesticated by structures of oppression and violence, if for no other reason than mere physical survival and relative cognitive harmony? The real question is what do the rest of us do, those who see unsustainability continually; political theater and the media’s obession with the minutiae… What about the planet, species...
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“There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no...”
– Carl Jung (via crystalprophetess)
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“Let us not sneer, nor condemn, nor hate- but let our love flow out toward all...”
– Yogi Ramacharaka
Bhakti Yoga
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