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Are you in or out?

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Consciousness, sustainability, mindfulness, awareness, etc are somewhat presented as an alternative to Capitalism. However, all of these ideas are being presented and acted on in a very consumerist way.

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Ethnischer Fortschritt?

Es herrscht eine westliche Besessenheit von Identität und Selbstverwirklichung. Die Voraussetzung für die Selbstverwirklichung ist aber die Existenz des Selbst, welches für die Selbstverwirklichung aktiviert werden kann. Heutzutage wird aber oftmals übersehen, dass das Selbst erst einmal erschafft werden muss. (frei nach David Parfit)

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Es geht um enttäuschte Erwartungen, die aber keiner versprochen hat. 

(Sibylle Berg)

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The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who beginns to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.

Pozzo in Waiting for Godot.

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What’s the difference between an Encounter and an Experience?

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Probleme sind nur dornige Chancen. Die Partei.

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Zadie Smith - Martin Buber

Aus Begenungen werden Erfahrungen. Das Ich&Du wird zum Ich&Es. Das Subjekt trifft Objekt. Dialog wird zum Monolog. Interaktion zur bloßen Aktion. Nur agieren. Nie reagieren.

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Die Bitterkeit ungelebter Sehnsucht beisst böse und giftig in meinem Herzen.

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Marx & Zizek

Religion is the Opium of the people. Opium is the Opium of the people. People are the Opium of the people.    

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animal farm

“animal farm foreword if liberty means anything it means the right to tell people what they not want to hear”

geroge orwell

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EU Elections

It seems like the only political consennsus that was agreed on, was the need to cast a vote.

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When I saw your picture, I thought cute. When I saw your ass, I thought hot. When I saw your mind, I thought beautiful. The wife will be back by tonight though. He’s put the wedding band back on. I actually hadn’t seen it before. It looks alien on his hands. His hands, which had given me so much pleasure the past 24 hours. It’s a weird transformation. I don’t want to see it.

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What is the point of falling in love (mentally and physically) with someone you can never have any physical relationship with?

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Present of Existence - duty of Being? Present of Being - duty of Existence?

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What is “capitalist universality”, Slavoj Zizek?

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“Die Wunde schliesst der Speer nur der sie schlug.”

Parsifal

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On Ideology

We are free to choose/act in a certain frame of options. We are not free to choose the frame. Ideology is what keeps the frame together. Ideology marks the definite pool of options we can choose from and its limitations.

(Zizek)