Nuffsaid

Art, photographs, thoughts, experiences, wishes and desires, exotica and erotica.

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[peony911-2]

❤️🥰🙌🏻

[fictiongarden]

[artdetrump]

[republicansaretheproblem]

[bowlby4]

[snufkinsanders]

Ecosia

[evangelinar]

The epitome of physical perfection

[republicansaredomesticterrorists]

[socialjusticeinamerica]

[rejectingrepublicans]

The Republican billionaire oligarchy needs to be removed.

[depsidase]

[dreamilypurpleoutcast]

Pretty much every single problem that we as a nation are suffering through right now can be traced to one very important [but often ignored] fact: Anti-intellectualism.

Or to put it another way, the glorification and outright hero-worship of the purposely uneducated and/or the willfully stupid.

Harlan Ellison once said that the two most common elements in the universe were hydrogen and stupidity - and he was not wrong. It doesn't take a genius to come to the conclusion that all of our current ills could be more than halved tomorrow if we enforced laws already on the books, embraced Democratic Socialism, installed universal healthcare, went back to taxing the uber-wealthy, protected and increased Social Security and other programs meant to assist rather than to shame people, and poured more available resources into education rather than the military.

The main obstacle keeping us from having these things are The Stupid.

What makes things even worse, The Stupid are backed by the Uber-Wealthy, who use them... let me emphasize that, USE THEM as cannon-fodder, voices of propaganda and roadblocks on the path to progress.

In short, millions of us are being held hostage by a small group of individuals who, if NOT fabulously wealthy, would be living in trailers on the outskirts of town, hoarding piles of useless crap. The only difference between the old coot living in a fortress of old newspapers & pizza boxes and Donald Trump is that Trump is better at conning his fellow dummies into believing all his crazy talk. Beyond that, they are one and the same.

And that's who's currently running the show.

[herpsandbirds]

[evangelinar]

[mysticallion]

Historically speaking, religion is the sociopolitical abduction of spirituality. When this occurs, the actual spiritual aspects inevitably decline into mere propaganda, rote rules and narrow concepts employed not just by those in power, but by entire swaths of anxious and angry and frustrated people, all to justify their own particular selfish thoughts, interests and actions, and to force others to do and feel the same. It’s the Power of Divine Right fueling all sorts of fearful, narcissistic egos. Choose your religion; it really doesn’t matter; the nuances may vary between ages and institutions, but the pattern persists throughout recorded human history and undoubtedly long before.

And it’s certainly becoming bitterly obvious now in America—again, fitting the same historical pattern to its current paradigm—as “The Christian Right” attempts to attack, usurp and control all sociopolitical and socioeconomic and democratic factors in the name of enforcing its own narrow-minded, self-centered point of view. As a political and philosophical worldview it is exclusive, meaning it excludes what doesn’t conform to its perspective, not inclusive, as a constitutional representative republic operating as a democracy was imagined and designed to be.

Of course it doesn’t take a religion to fuel such extremism. Non-religious clumps of people, also anxious and angry and frustrated, and equally narcissistic, will also seek to manipulate others by force rather than referendum, to define rather than accept, to control rather than allow “reasonable” personal autonomy. But historically, religions do it best. They provide ready-made mass movements, large numbers of people already conditioned to being conditioned. It’s a simple enough matter to define that conditioning, to narrow the focus and intensity of the message for political purposes, and then to psychologically reinforce it through force and fear.

The good news is, historically speaking, such institutions tend to eventually lead to their own demise; the bad news is, they usually take their societies down with them. The still-to-be-determined news is whether this process of religious usurpation can overcome the supposedly Constitutionally protected guardrails of a representative republic operating as a free Democracy. Stay tuned.

[evangelinar]

In my experience, I have learned that the majority of the world's religions are dedicated to the idea of suppressing and dominating women. Why the patriarchy despises us with such burning fervor is a mystery that I have struggled to understand since puberty. Sadly, I am no closer to an answer now than I was at fourteen.

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Magnificent! Simply magnificent