Diogenes and the Fall of Man

anti-power, noun: the state of delegitimizing the self-granted dominance of certain groups and persons over others (i.e. against power)

[daingertmadelyn-deactivated2025]

[tn-redhead]

[aspiritualwarrior]

Just as the nature of water is to flow, it is the nature of the spirit to be free.

Mooji

[books0977]

The Patchwork Girl of Oz. L. Frank Baum. Illustrated by John R. Neill. Chicago: Reilly & Britton, 1913. 

“Horrid?” she replied. “Why I’m thoroughly delightful. I’m an Original, if you please, and therefore incomparable. Of all the comic, absurd, rare and amusing creatures the world contains, I must be the supreme freak. Who but poor Margolotte could have managed to invent such an unreasonable being as I? But I’m glad—I’m awfully glad!—that I’m just what I am, and nothing else.”

[anti-power]

I have this book

[latenightsinpemberley]

Today marks the 104th anniversary of the Armenian genocide, the systematic extermination of 1.5 million Armenians by the Ottoman Empire.

Every year, on the eve of this day of rememberance, young people across Armenia gather in Yerevan and march to the Genocide Memorial with torches, in the memory of the victims of the Genocide.

To this day, both Turkey and Western powers like the United States, refuse to recognise this monstrous reality that forever marked the Armenian people, its scars still visible over a century later.

It’s about time for the perpetrators to assume responsibility.

It’s about time the tiniest bit of respect was paid to all those brutally tortured, raped and massacred.

In order to properly heal, justice needs to finally be served.

[memesandlaughs]

[blextrophy]

my mom postwd this

[anti-power]

9 to 5!

[365daysofbarbie]

[politijohn]

At this point, I’m not even surprised

[grootpoepjeplasjehoofd]

Hey Jimbo, did you know that the US pushed UFO conspiracy fodder to disguise its secret jet programs? Isn’t that wacky?

[grootpoepjeplasjehoofd]

Remember when a New Mexico man came across transmissions coming from an Air Force base, reported it to the authorities, and they reinforced his conviction that it was aliens and sent him on a wild goose chase that drove him insane?

“The classic case, well-known to conspiracy aficionados, is Paul Bennewitz, a successful electronics entrepreneur in New Mexico. In 1979, Bennewitz started seeing strange lights in the sky, and picking up weird transmissions on his amateur equipment. The fact that he lived just across the road from Kirtland air force base should have set alarm bells ringing, but Bennewitz was convinced these phenomena were of extraterrestrial origin. Being a good patriot, he contacted the Air Force, who realised that, far from eavesdropping on ET, Bennewitz was inadvertently eavesdropping on them. Instead of making him stop, though, Doty and other officers told Bennewitz they were interested in his findings. That encouraged Bennewitz to dig deeper. Within a few years, he was interpreting alien languages, spotting crashed alien craft in the hills from his plane (he was an amateur pilot), and sounding the alert for a full-scale invasion. All the time, the investigators were surveilling him surveilling them. They gave Bennewitz computer software that “interpreted” the signals, and even dumped fake props for him to discover. The mania took over Bennewitz’s life. In 1988, his family checked him into a psychiatric facility.“ (X)

[priceofliberty]

That’s insidious

[dntfdpltcxgone-deactivated20190]

Mirage Men is a “documentary” (very biased) about what happened to Paul, and they actually BROADCASTING SIGNALS into this man’s HOME to make him believe ge was receiving alien messages. A lot of the narration of the doc is done by Richard Doty, the one who was assigned to do this to him. Doty was a long term “misinformant” who’s job was to strategically spread misinformation intermixed with accurate information, to create a different narrative. He spends the documentary laughing about all the ways they tormented this poor man, among others.

[anti-power]

Mind-blowing film

[mudwerks]

Maria Casarès

French postcard by A.N., Paris, no. 1271. Photo: Roger Carlet

[anti-power]

I remember her from Orphee

[killtheteendream]

[1dietcokeinacan]

Me too so what.

[trilllizard666]

we really going 13 years back huh

[762nukem]

They absolutely fucking want his ass.

[01189998819991197253andahalf-de]

This reminds me of 1984 where political enemies when captured were forced to give a video confession where they confessed to contracting syphilis because of an overly sexual lifestyle.

[siryouarebeingmocked]

For bonus points, the UK already says people need a “good reason” to carry a knife over a certain size, and what that reason is appears to be left up to the discretion of the bobbies and courts. Cops have gone around confiscating screwdrivers.

[nunyabizni]

I’m picturing someones 80 year old grandma getting in trouble for going over to Hellen’s house because they’re having a knitting party over there and gran brought her collection of knitting needles to show the ladies.

[anti-power]

what a dystopian nightmare

[4sensesplusascarf]

The worst madness a man can fall into, in this life, is to let himself die, for no real reason, and without anybody else killing him or any other hands but those of sadness and melancholy taking his life.

Sancho Panza, in Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quijote

[thebuddhistmind]

There is only one poverty and that poverty is a heart that cannot love.

Osho

[anti-power]

Not 100% accurate, but I know what he’s trying to say. I also just out I met someone who lived in Rajneeshpuram. 

[thecollectibles]

Uninvited Guest by Andrew Palyanov

[anti-power]

Benghazi, Istanbul, and London. It seems like embassies and consulates are not safe spaces. They are either controlled by governments to the detriment of the inhabitants, or the people within are not protected.