Twenty Three Monsters for Evey

Boston Truth Revealed - Imgur

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 23:34:18 -0400

Boston Truth Revealed - Imgur:

I’m speechless. They passed CISPA.

Here's A Video Of Two Men Experiencing Labor Contractions

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 22:08:42 -0400

Here's A Video Of Two Men Experiencing Labor Contractions:

A Dutch TV program had a brilliant idea.

Men experiencing simulated labor. I don’t even… This is too great

Ohhh goddammit. I fucked up again. He has a bleeding girlfriend. I fucked up. I should have...

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 20:28:45 -0400

Ohhh goddammit. I fucked up again. He has a bleeding girlfriend. I fucked up. I should have never thought or felt those things. I knew that all along. I got my hopes up, I expected things, I dreamt again. I didn’t keep my distance. And I feel like such a damn fool. I knew it all along, but I just couldn’t help myself. At least knowing what I do now will make it so much easier to get over it all. Geez, I’m so stupid.

But goddamn. Every. Fucking. Time. It’s so hard sometimes. Staying strong. Forcing myself to keep my chin up, to be happy. I know some of what I’m doing with myself, this looking for love bullshit, is wrong and bad for me. But I just can’t help it. These nights have been so damn lonely for years. But I need to stay strong. I have to.

I need to focus on something else. I need to throw myself into Buddhism and stop fucking around about it. I need to commit to this one thing, and I know it’ll be so good for me. But gods know how hard it is for me to be a good little girl and do the things I should.

Sometimes I don’t understand

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 20:34:05 -0400

Sometimes I don’t understand

Can I turn this blog into a penguin exhibit?

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 20:21:40 -0400

Can I turn this blog into a penguin exhibit?

I think that this is marvelous.

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 20:17:46 -0400

I think that this is marvelous.

bronxguerrilla27: Do You Suffer From Any Irrational Attitudes...

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 20:27:24 -0500

bronxguerrilla27:

Do You Suffer From Any Irrational Attitudes of Submission to Authority?

EXCERPT FROM NOAM CHOMSKY’S MANUFACTURING CONSENT:

QUESTION: … You outlined a model — filters that propaganda is sent through, on its way to the public. Can you briefly outline those?

CHOMSKY: It’s basically an institutional analysis of the major media, what we call a propaganda model. We’re talking primarily about the national media, those media that sort of set a general agenda that others more or less adhere to, to the extent that they even pay much attention to national or international affairs.

Now the elite media are sort of the agenda-setting media. That means The New York Times, The Washington Post, the major television channels, and so on. They set the general framework. Local media more or less adapt to their structure.

And they do this in all sorts of ways: by selection of topics, by distribution of concerns, by emphasis and framing of issues, by filtering of information, by bounding of debate within certain limits. They determine, they select, they shape, they control, they restrict — in order to serve the interests of dominant, elite groups in the society.

The New York Times is certainly the most important newspaper in the United States, and one could argue the most important newspaper in the world. The New York Times plays an enormous role in shaping the perception of the current world on the part of the politically active, educated classes. Also The New York Times has a special role, and I believe its editors probably feel that they bear a heavy burden, in the sense that The New York Times creates history.

That is, history is what appears in The New York Times archives; the place where people will go to find out what happened is The New York Times. Therefore it’s extremely important if history is going to be shaped in an appropriate way, that certain things appear, certain things not appear, certain questions be asked, other questions be ignored, and that issues be framed in a particular fashion. Now in whose interests is history being so shaped? Well, I think that’s not very difficult to answer.

Now, to eliminate confusion, all of this has nothing to do with liberal or conservative bias. According to the propaganda model, both liberal and conservative wings of the media — whatever those terms are supposed to mean — fall within the same framework of assumptions.

In fact, if the system functions well, it ought to have a liberal bias, or at least appear to. Because if it appears to have a liberal bias, that will serve to bound thought even more effectively.

In other words, if the press is indeed adversarial and liberal and all these bad things, then how can I go beyond it? They’re already so extreme in their opposition to power that to go beyond it would be to take off from the planet. So therefore it must be that the presuppositions that are accepted in the liberal media are sacrosanct — can’t go beyond them. And a well-functioning system would in fact have a bias of that kind. The media would then serve to say in effect: Thus far and no further.

We ask what would you expect of those media on just relatively uncontroversial, guided-free market assumptions? And when you look at them you find a number of major factors determining what their products are. These are what we call the filters, so one of them, for example, is ownership. Who owns them?

The major agenda-setting media — after all, what are they? As institutions in the society, what are they? Well, in the first place they are major corporations, in fact huge corporations. Furthermore, they are integrated with and sometimes owned by even larger corporations, conglomerates — so, for example, by Westinghouse and G.E. and so on.

So what we have in the first place is major corporations which are parts of even bigger conglomerates. Now, like any other corporation, they have a product which they sell to a market. The market is advertisers — that is, other businesses. What keeps the media functioning is not the audience. They make money from their advertisers. And remember, we’re talking about the elite media. So they’re trying to sell a good product, a product which raises advertising rates. And ask your friends in the advertising industry. That means that they want to adjust their audience to the more elite and affluent audience. That raises advertising rates. So what you have is institutions, corporations, big corporations, that are selling relatively privileged audiences to other businesses.

Well, what point of view would you expect to come out of this? I mean without any further assumptions, what you’d predict is that what comes out is a picture of the world, a perception of the world, that satisfies the needs and the interests and the perceptions of the sellers, the buyers and the product.

Now there are many other factors that press in the same direction. If people try to enter the system who don’t have that point of view they’re likely to be excluded somewhere along the way. After all, no institution is going to happily design a mechanism to self-destruct. It’s not the way institutions function. So they’ll work to exclude or marginalize or eliminate dissenting voices or alternative perspectives and so on because they’re dysfunctional, they’re dysfunctional to the institution itself.

Now there are other media too whose basic social role is quite different: it’s diversion. There’s the real mass media-the kinds that are aimed at, you know, Joe Six Pack — that kind. The purpose of those media is just to dull people’s brains.

This is an oversimplification, but for the eighty percent or whatever they are, the main thing is to divert them. To get them to watch National Football League. And to worry about “Mother With Child With Six Heads,” or whatever you pick up on the supermarket stands and so on. Or look at astrology. Or get involved in fundamentalist stuff or something or other. Just get them away. Get them away from things that matter. And for that it’s important to reduce their capacity to think.

Take, say, sports — that’s another crucial example of the indoctrination system, in my view. For one thing because it — you know, it offers people something to pay attention to that’s of no importance. [audience laughs] That keeps them from worrying about — [applause] keeps them from worrying about things that matter to their lives that they might have some idea of doing something about. And in fact it’s striking to see the intelligence that’s used by ordinary people in [discussions of] sports [as opposed to political and social issues]. I mean, you listen to radio stations where people call in — they have the most exotic information [more laughter] and understanding about all kind of arcane issues. And the press undoubtedly does a lot with this.

You know, I remember in high school, already I was pretty old. I suddenly asked myself at one point, why do I care if my high school team wins the football game? [laughter] I mean, I don’t know anybody on the team, you know? [audience roars] I mean, they have nothing to do with me, I mean, why I am cheering for my team? It doesn’t mean any — it doesn’t make sense. But the point is, it does make sense: it’s a way of building up irrational attitudes of submission to authority, and group cohesion behind leadership elements — in fact, it’s training in irrational jingoism. That’s also a feature of competitive sports. I think if you look closely at these things, I think, typically, they do have functions, and that’s why energy is devoted to supporting them and creating a basis for them and advertisers are willing to pay for them and so on.

I’m gonna write today.

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 05:55:52 -0500

I’m gonna write and I’m gonna draw.

I’m gonna.

I’m

gonna

text post of my life

Question: How does one go about effectively defending human rights?

Sat, 16 Feb 2013 15:01:10 -0500

Question:

How does one go about effectively defending human rights?

World Press Photo Awards Announced

Sat, 16 Feb 2013 14:58:58 -0500

World Press Photo Awards Announced:

Read the descriptions.

That last photo made me cry. Look at the emotion on those men’s faces. What kind of world are we living in?

I don’t really know what I’m doing. I don’t know what I’m saying....

Sat, 16 Feb 2013 01:45:15 -0500

I don’t really know what I’m doing. I don’t know what I’m saying. I’m frustrated with myself and my insane laziness. I’m so full of ideas and dreams and I just can’t find the drive and desire to try to realize them like I should. I don’t know why. I understand what others see in me to a degree, and I know what I’m capable of, but I keep holding myself back, as always. At this point in my life there are infinite possibilities in front of me, but I’m too damn apathetic about my own future to do anything. I’m better than this. I shouldn’t keep reading the stupid garbage that I do. It is not that hard for me to focus; I just have difficulty starting things, and that has been frustrating me to no end. I’m sick and tired of my own bullshit. I hate myself for my laziness. I know what I need to change, I know how to change it, but I just sit back instead of doing something and watch life pass by in front me. I know where to find the answers that I seek. I’m just too damn lazy and full of shit to actually get up and find them. I know that all I need to do is start, and then things will get going from there, but I don’t exactly want to do so. Well, it’s not that per say; I want to change more than anything. I do, I do, I truly do. But there’s something wrong with me. Maybe it’s a fear or anxiety. Maybe it’s an insecurity or doubt. I don’t know. But man… I need to figure out soon, because this, this shit that I’m half-assing right now, isn’t enough. I am not satisfied with the me right now. All I can and want to believe is the person that I will become.

Plus I haven’t been writing and that just makes me feel quite shitty about myself. I feel confused and maybe even a little hurt. Where did all of those stories go? Where are all of my beautiful words? Why have they disappeared?

I’m not happy with the state I’m in now. But I will change.

The Lazy Yogi: 11 Bits of Wisdom from Eckhart Tolle

Thu, 14 Feb 2013 18:05:12 -0500

The Lazy Yogi: 11 Bits of Wisdom from Eckhart Tolle:

lazyyogi:

1. Doing is never enough if you neglect Being.

2. What you react to in others, you strengthen in yourself.

3. Attachment to things drops away when you no longer seek to find yourself in them.

4. The past has no power over the present moment. When you surrender to what is and so become fully…

the-absolute-best-posts: No one deserves the cruel life of...

Wed, 13 Feb 2013 21:53:27 -0500

the-absolute-best-posts:

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Dancers among us

Thu, 24 Jan 2013 15:02:05 -0500

Dancers among us:

I really, really love this. These photos are breathtaking. The passion, the strength, the wonder these people are able to express with their bodies is beautiful. I wish I were a dancer.

tedx: In September, food waste activist Selina Juul gave a talk...

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 22:33:59 -0500

tedx:

In September, food waste activist Selina Juul gave a talk called, “Stop wasting food” at TEDxCopenhagen, asking global citizens to be more mindful of the food they let go to waste.

Unfortunately, since Selina’s talk went live, it’s become clear that the problem of global food waste is a lot worse than even she thought.

Just this month the UK-based Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) published a study that revealed that — as The Guardian reports — “up to half of the food that is bought in Europe and the US is thrown away by consumers,” and almost as much as half of the food produced in the world (2 billion tons worth) winds up in the trash instead of in people’s mouths.

And just yesterday, the UN launched a new campaign to fight global food waste: the Think.Eat.Save campaign. The new initiative seeks to educate consumers and retailers on the issue of global food waste, and provide strategies, ideas, and resources to ameliorate this worldwide endemic.

In her talk, Selina explains the problem, and her hopes for awareness and future solutions:

I was born in Moscow, Russia. When I came to the West some 19 years ago, I was shocked to see the amount of food [available]… I mean, I was born in Communist Russia — we didn’t have that much food … And I was also shocked to see the amount of food waste. People wasted food everywhere, without giving it any second thought.

…We do it all the time: We buy more food than we actually need; we stack it into the back of our fridges, and then we let it die — slowly. And let’s say that after a week or two, when our carrots get all wrinkled and sad, we just take them out and throw them all away, because, you know, you can always buy some more.

Does it matter? It actually does.

Good edible food — your money, your time, farmers’ work, carbon emissions, all of that — [we throw it directly away to feed our garbage can.]

Ladies and gentlemen, we have to be smarter than that. We have to wake up…

In just some 20 years, we are going to need two planets to sustain the demand for our consumption: The population is growing and the resources are already lacking … We are running out of time.

It’s all too easy, Selina says, for people to become “consumer zombies” — never thinking about the choices they make at the grocery store, the office cafe, or the local farmers’ market. Whether it’s buying a super-sized sandwich you probably won’t eat, an extra pint of milk just because it’s on sale, or ignoring perfectly fine leftovers in favor of shopping for more food, so many shoppers in the western world make choices that lead to food waste every day. She wants that to change.

She suggests that people use their leftovers, share food with neighbors, be wise about portion choices at restaurants, even start consumer movements to change how food is sold and bought in consumer markets, and how food waste is perceived in society.

“The power of ordinary people like you and I,” she ends her talk, “is extraordinary … This food .. is not only food. This is your power. This is your personal power to change the future. Don’t waste that power. Stop wasting food.”

For more tips on reducing food waste, you can visit Selina’s website at http://www.selinajuul.com/ or the Think.Eat.Save website at: http://www.thinkeatsave.org/

Photos: Left, by Flickr user szczel; Right, Selina Juul at TEDxCopenhagen

sosuperawesome: More than 100 aid organisations have come...

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 22:33:57 -0500

sosuperawesome:

More than 100 aid organisations have come together to launch a campaign against hunger to coincide with the UK’s role heading the G8 this year. -BBC

Enough Food for Everyone – IF – launches tonight at Somerset House in Central London, where billionaire Microsoft founder Bill Gates will say the world must act now to tackle hunger. Watch his video appeal here

Join the campaign here

The Human Ego

Thu, 03 Jan 2013 23:23:24 -0500

The Human Ego

FBI Coordinated Crackdown of OWS

Thu, 03 Jan 2013 00:35:20 -0500

FBI Coordinated Crackdown of OWS

Please Send These People Hell - Imgur

Mon, 31 Dec 2012 15:06:10 -0500

Please Send These People Hell - Imgur

Found this on reddit

Fri, 28 Dec 2012 16:40:07 -0500

Found this on reddit