Thoughts for an accelerated culture

Disenfranchised youth in the South-East of England; the king blues, protest, knowledge, help others,anarchy, Banksy, street art, the media

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"There’s no fucking future for anyone but the privileged anymore, education needs to be for everyone, we need jobs, houses, and all they want us to do is pay our taxes, shut the fuck up and gratefully eat X-Factor. It makes me sick to my gut. Banker bonuses and politicians claiming thousands for their fucking duck ponds while they sweep the homeless off the streets and hose down where they’re sleeping, taking away benefits while two and a half million people are unemployed, leaving empty houses to rot and trying to outlaw squatting during a homeless crisis."

~ Johnny Itch Fox, February 2012 (via culturecritiques)

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''Murder, crime, poverty - these things don't concern me. What concerns me are celebrity magazines, television with five hundred channels, some guys name on my underwear. Rogaine, Viagra, Olestra. I see all this potential and I see it squandered. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas and waiting tables - slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of history. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our great war is a spiritual war. Our great depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires and movie gods and rockstars. But we won't. We're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off.

Tyler Durden

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I'm pro-life

Before you attack me, I'm also pro-choice and in favour of contraception. Those who are "pro-life" do not believe in abortion and often are against contraceptive methods. Bringing new life into a world filled with orphans and children that need help...that need a life.

You're not pro-life, you're pro-fucking-birth.

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I've now personally experienced two girls being sexually assaulted/harassed since January and only because I happened to be in the right place at the right time. It's hard to know what to do.

[hotbroccoli]

1. I say, ‘I am fat.’ He says ‘No, you are beautiful.’ I wonder why I cannot be both. He kisses me hard. 2. My college theater professor once told me that despite my talent, I would never be cast as a romantic lead. We do plays that involve singing animals and children with the ability to fly, but apparently no one has enough willing suspension of disbelief to go with anyone loving a fat girl. I daydream regularly about fucking my boyfriend vigorously on his front lawn. 3. On the mornings I do not feel pretty, while he is still asleep, I sit on the floor and check the pockets of his skinny jeans for motive, for a punchline, for other girls’ phone numbers. 4. When we hold hands in public, I wonder if he notices the looks — like he is handling a parade balloon on a crowded sidewalk; if he notices that my hands are now made of rope. 5. Dear Cosmo: Fuck you. I will not take sex tips from you on how to please a man you think I do not deserve. 6. He tells me he loves me with the lights on. 7. I can cup his hip bone in my hand, feel his ribs without pressing very hard at all. He does not believe me when I tell him he is beautiful. Sometimes I fear the day he does will be the day he leaves. 8. The cute hipster girl at the coffee shop assumes we are just friends and flirts over the counter. I spend the next two weeks mentally replacing myself with her in all of our photographs. When I admit this to him we spend the evening taking new photos together. He will not let me delete a single one of them. 9. The phrase “Big girls need love too” can die in a fire. Fucking me does not require an asterisk. Loving me is not a fetish. Finding me beautiful is not a novelty. I am not a fucking novelty. 10. I say, ‘I am fat.’ He says, ‘No. You are so much more’, and kisses me hard.

Rachel Wiley (via hotbroccoli)

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The Fuck It Point

"When you have had enough. When you decide to take matter into your own hands and don’t care what’s going to happen to you."

[simplepleasures-x]

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There are far too many young women in my life who have been raped or sexually abused.

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This is a picture of two homeless people sleeping in a tram stop at 1.30am. It was taken in Munich - one of the richest cities, in one of the richest regions, in one of the richest countries, in one of the richest regions of the world.

[wearethe99percent]

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Act now. Stop taking the shit governments, elites, financiers and predator multinational company CEO's give you. Rebel, fight back, resist.

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Since 1990...

the police have been involved with the deaths of 1'433, but no police officer has ever been convicted of being the direct cause. Interesting.

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It's a strange world where...

A politicians earn £65'738 per year, whilst a single mum who earns £12'000 a year, who is supposed to be represented by these people, struggles to provide a life for her family...and cannot claim her travel to work under "expenses".

[minarchyintheusa]

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Culturecritiques:

There's a culture in place which teaches men that women exist to please them and that women can expect men to be deep, meaningful and in touch with their emotions. Truth is, so often neither is true - at least not as much as the other sex would like. This culture needs to be addressed and we need to start thinking about individual needs within our society rather than dictating broad gender generalisations.

As to the picture, I'm usually a firm believer in "don't have the player hate the game" as a phrase. In this case, the player is equally at fault - nobody forces someone to rape someone else. But there are, of course, aspects of our society that either demonise the victim, rather than the offender, or normalise sexual violence/harassment. If people begin to look down on rape publicly, rather than just when one story (of many) hits the news headlines then I for one think we will see a decline in sexual offences, which can only be good, right? concludingmusings:

ALWAYS reblog.

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~ Plan B (Ben Drew) on Youth, Music and London.

In an Observer Interview last year Plan B said that much of his film and music work is inspired by injustice and much of it reflects his life and upbringing as a youth in East London. The video discusses the differences between perception of youths and the reality.

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"They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end and so it cannot fail"

We are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be. Take the jump. See what happens. Life is for the living and not for getting hung up over 'what ifs'. On the day you die, you will regret the times you did not jump rather than the times you chose to stay firmly on the ground.

~ Looking For Alaska

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