[lionfloss]

The Green Room, 2019

Steven Mayer

[atlurbanist]

It's a forest. Just say it.

This is the exact section of South River Forest property that's becoming the "cop city" training facility for the City of Atlanta.

I'm no expert on what constitutes a forest. But from Google Earth, this sure resembles one.

And yet the City of Atlanta put out some "facts" about the police training center being built here, and they're trying to convince us this is no big loss because it's not really a forest:

Weird. They know we have access to the internet, right?

Whatever this greenery is (and I still say it's a forest) it's going away for the training center. We're losing a huge stretch of trees -- which was supposed to all be a public green space, per the Atlanta City Design -- while massive highways stay the same & even get bigger. It's screwed up.

Remember this:

Nobody regrets the forests we saved. Just the ones we lost.

[theladyintweed]

Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun (detail)

[darkclassicwithin]

Pillars at the British Museum

[artndetails]

stained glass window. (via)

[no-borders-no-nations]

[no-gods-no-masters-tshirts]

[derangedrhythms]

[…] the poem is a way of thinking without losing the feeling. 

Jeanette Winterson

[theconcealedweapon]

Socialist policies were fought for by the working class.

Capitalism is upheld by the police.

But people still think capitalism means small government.

[anarchistmemedistro]

how to spot an ayncrap in one easy step

[melancholy-introvert]

Behind every window, is a hidden story

[perkwunos]

Philip Goff, Galileo’s Error: Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness

[third-nature]

I think about this a lot. Is the collective consciousness of God still a kind of "subjective" consciousness, insofar as "it" experiences qualia and events and cosmic history? Is "it" an "objective" consciousness, insofar as "it" is the transcendent source of all that exists and thus supercedes individuation? I guess this is why we study non-dualism -- the binaries always ultimately collapse.

[the-hearth-and-the-wild]

Death and life are the same thing - like the two sides of my hand, the palm and the back. And still the palm and the back are not the same…They can be neither separated, nor mixed.

Ursula K. Le Guin, The Farthest Shore

[third-nature]

"If we take for granted and accept unreflectively that community consists of an aggregate of unrelated, monadic, self-enclosed, and highly privatized egos; that the telephone, radio, television set, and night letter constitute our principal windows to the world; that the shopping mall and its parking lots are our normal terrain for public intercourse; that processed and packaged foods, transported thousands of miles from remote areas of the country, are our major sources of nutriment; that 'time is money,' fast-talking is a paying skill, and speed-racing is a desideratum; that, above all, bureaucracy comprises the sinews of social life, gigantism is the measure of success, and clientage to professionals and centralized authority is evidence of a public sphere -- then we will be irretrievably lost as individuals, will-less as egos, and formless as personalities. Like the natural world around us, we will become the victims of a simplification process that renders us as inorganic and mineral as the ores that feed our foundries and the sand that feeds our glass furnaces.

It is no longer a 'New Age' cliché to insist that, wherever possible, we must 'unplug' our 'inputs' from a depersonalized, mindless system that threatens to absorb us into its circuitry. In little more than a decade, we have been victimized by our electronic and cybernetic society more than the most outspoken critics of everyday life could have anticipated in the sixties. Loss of individuality and personal uniqueness, with its ultimate result in the 'liquidation' of personality itself, begins with the loss of our ability to contrast a more human-scaled world that once was; another world, approximating complete totalitarianization, that now is; and finally a third one, human-scaled, ecological, and rational, that should be. Once that sense of contrast disappears, the tension between these worlds also passes away; it is this tension that motivates us to rear up in resistance against our complete defilement. Hence, daily life itself must be viewed as a calling in which we have an ethical responsibility to function in a state of unrelieved opposition to its prevailing norms."

Murray Bookchin

[amecylia]

“If we do not do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable.” Murray Bookchin

Rainbow Swirl.

Quotes Quote Motivation Beautiful Art Amecylia GIF Animation Black White Rainbow Thinking Movement Swirl

[lit-sideblog]

“A capitalist economy, by definition, lives by growth; as Bookchin observes: ‘For capitalism to desist from its mindless expansion would be for it to commit social suicide.’ We have, essentially, chosen cancer as the model of our social system.

‘Capitalism’s grow-or-die imperative stands radically at odds with ecology’s imperative of interdependence and limit. The two imperatives can no longer coexist with each other; nor can any society founded on the myth that they can be reconciled hope to survive. Either we will establish an ecological society or society will go under for everyone, irrespective of his or her status.’“

[jayeandi]