January 2011
52 posts
Inequality In America Is Worse Than In Egypt, Tunisia Or Yemen →
informationclearinghouse.info
..but we’re home on Tumblr instead of in the streets.
“You’re not the only one trying to find it. We’re out here, too—-some of us are even waiting ahead there for you. Please know that anything you’ve ever done or considered doing to get there is not crazy, but beautiful, noble, necessary.”
—CrimthInc. Ex-Worker’s Collective, Expect Resistance
“I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.”
—John Adams
“The United States of America is, in reality, a one-party corporatist state whose very existence is, more than ever, perpetuated by a conscious deliberate denial of reality, even in the face of the obvious.”
—Larry Pinkney
“The joyous and voluntary poverty of Buddhism becomes a positive force. The traditional harmlessness and refusal to take life in any form has nation-shaking implications. The practice of meditation, for which one needs only “the ground beneath one’s feet,” wipes out mountains of junk being pumped into the mind by the mass media and supermarket universities. The belief in a serene and generous fulfillment of natural loving desires destroys ideologies which blind, maim and repress — and points the way to a kind of community which would amaze “moralists” and transform armies of men who are fighters because they cannot be lovers.”
—Gary Snyder, Buddhist Anarchism
“Greater Poop: Is Eris true?
Malaclypse the Younger: Everything is true.
GP: Even false things?
M2: Even false things are true.
GP: How can that be?
M2: I don’t know man, I didn’t do it.” —Principia Discordia
Malaclypse the Younger: Everything is true.
GP: Even false things?
M2: Even false things are true.
GP: How can that be?
M2: I don’t know man, I didn’t do it.” —Principia Discordia
Vermont Is Gearing Up to Strike a Major Blow to Corporate Personhood →
alternet.org
On the anniversary of the Citizens United decision, Vermont politicians are moving to deny corporations the rights that humans enjoy.
