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Jules of Nature
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if i look back, i am lost
we're not kids anymore.
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Finally. And now my writing will improve, right? 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘰𝘧 𝘚𝘺𝘮𝘣𝘰𝘭𝘴: 𝘙𝘦𝘧𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘈𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘵𝘺𝘱𝘢𝘭 𝘐𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘴 rests on an ottoman. There is no entry for ottoman or footrest in said book. #justhowlonghaveiwantedthisboook #alongtimecoming #finallyonsale #amnotreading #amperusing https://www.instagram.com/p/CZXNyA-p6Iz/?utm_medium=tumblr
“Go blind today already: eternity is too full of eyes–”
— Paul Celan, from Breathturn
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A Painful Pot - Johnson Tsang / Porcelain / L28 W20 H45 cm / 2013
Johnson Tsang is a Hong Kong-based sculptor who blends realist sculpting techniques with surrealist imagery.
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“We reason deeply, when we forcibly feel.”
— Mary Wollstonecraft, Letters Written in Sweden (via philosophybits)
these words aren’t from the same root but I think it’s interesting how they echo each other…
Help us please!
I’d never thought that I’d have to do this, but I really need some help right now. My family went through some intense property destruction this weekend and it’s going to take a huge amount of money that we just don’t have in order to rebuild. Please don’t scroll past this - there’s a tl:dr at the bottom if you need it, but I really need to explain just how big this is for my family.
If you haven’t heard, on Friday September 21 at around 5:00pm, a really big tornado came though a small rural community called Dunrobin, Ottawa. There’s so much destruction right now and thousands and thousands of people in the city are without power.
The tornado went right over my house. The house isn’t irreparably damaged, and we can fix it. The farm is another story.
Here’s a picture of two of my three barns and my silo that I took a few years ago:
Here’s the same buildings after the tornado hit:
This picture was taken while there were still power lines across my driveway and we were afraid to step off the porch, but you can still see how only the stone bottom of the biggest barn remains while the other barn and the silo are just completely gone. There’s another barn destroyed that you can’t see from this angle.
You know what’s the real kicker? Only our smallest, most insignificant barn was insured against wind damage. That big barn and that silo? They’ll cost thousands upon thousands of dollars to rebuild and we won’t have any help from insurance. We don’t have that sort of money.
A significant portion of our income comes from the farm, and those barns gave shelter to the animals that we raise, and gave protection from the elements to the farm’s equipment. We can’t even use the money from our crops to help rebuild because many of our fields were also hit by the tornado.
We really need help. I’ve set up a gofundme to receive donations. Every little bit counts, and if you can’t donate anything, that’s okay! Please reblog to get the word spread around - I’d really appreciate that from the bottom of my heart. Thank you so much for reading!
TL;DR: A tornado hit my propriety and the farm buildings that we need to run our farm were completely destroyed - only one was insured against wind damage and we can’t afford to fix the rest. A lot of our income comes from the farm and we need help to rebuild. There is a gofundme for any potential donations. I’d appreciate even a reblog because every bit means a lot!
On this day, 20 July 1925, Frantz Fanon, French-Algerian psychiatrist, anti-colonialist to leave philosopher, revolutionary and writer was born. His famous works include ‘Black Skin, White Masks’ (1952) and ‘The Wretched of the Earth’ (1961). You can read these in our archive of content by and about him here: https://ift.tt/2uN4YFO https://ift.tt/2LoJfyk
“Mere literary talent is common; what is rare is endurance, the continuing desire to work hard at writing.”
— Donald Hall
Donald Hall died today.
Mr. Hall died on June 23, 2018.
“Everything is ecstasy, inside. We just don’t know it because of our thinking-minds. But in our true blissful essence of mind it is known that everything is alright forever and forever and forever. Close your eyes, let your hands and nerve-ends drop, stop breathing for 3 seconds, listen to the silence inside the illusion of the world, and you will remember the lesson you forgot, which was taught in immense milky ways of cloudy innumerable worlds long ago and not even at all. It is all one vast awakened thing. I call it the golden eternity. It is perfect. We were never really born, we will never really die. It has nothing to do with the imaginary idea of a personal self, other selves, many selves everywhere, or one universal self. Self is only an idea, a mortal idea. That which passes through everything, is one thing. It’s a dream already ended. There’s nothing to be afraid of and nothing to be glad about. I know this from staring at mountains months on end. They never show any expression, they are like empty space. Do you think the emptiness of space will ever crumble away? Mountains will crumble, but the emptiness of space, which is the one universal essence of mind, the one vast awakenerhood, empty and awake, will never crumble away because it was never born”. ~ Jack Kerouac
Wowzers.
nem sirok csak 65ezren belementek a szemembe
A crowd of 65,000 sings ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ perfectly while waiting for a Green Day concert
THIS. IS. PERFECTION.
@catwinchester
Amazing!
1. how the fuck did Green Day follow that
2. you know, we have fun here, with the word “meme,” but according to meme theory, which is an actual thing pioneered by reptilian human impersonator Richard Dawkins in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, most of what we call memes are very unsuccessful memes. A meme, in the scientific sense - if one is generously disposed to consider memetics a science on any particular day - is an idea that acts like a gene. That is, it seeks to replicate itself, as many times as possible, and as faithfully as possible.
That second part is important. A gene which is not faithful in its replication mutates, sometimes rapidly, sometimes wildly. The result might be cancer or a virus or (very very very rarely) a viable evolutionary step forward, but whatever the case, it is no longer the original gene. That gene no longer exists. It could not successfully reproduce itself.
The memes we pass around on the internet are, in general, very short lived and rapidly mutating. It’s rare for any meme to survive for more than a year: in almost all cases, they appear, spread rapidly, spawn a thousand short-lived variations, and then are swiftly forgotten. They’re not funny anymore, or interesting anymore. They no longer serve any function, and so they’re left behind, a mental evolutionary dead end.
This rendition of Freddie Mercury’s immortal opera Bohemian Rhapsody is about the most goddamned amazing demonstration of a successful meme I’ve ever seen. This song is 42 years old, as of 2017. FORTY TWO YEARS OLD. And it has spread SO far, and replicated itself across the minds of millions of people SO faithfully, that a gathering of 65,000 more or less random people, with nothing in common except that they all really like it when Billie Joe Armstrong does the thing with the guitar, can reproduce it perfectly. IN PERFECT TIME. THEY KNOW THE EXACT LENGTH OF EVERY BRIDGE. THEY EVEN GET THE NONSENSE WORDS RIGHT. THEY DIVIDE THEMSELVES UP IN ORDER TO SING THE COUNTER-CHORUS.
“Yeah, Pyrrhic, lots of people know this song.”
Listen, you glassy-eyed ninny: our species’ ability to coherently pass along not just genetic information, but memetic information as well, is the reason we’re the dominant species on this planet. Language is a meme. Civilization is a collection of memes. Lots of animals can learn, but we may be the only animal that latches onto ephemera - information that doesn’t reflect any concrete reality, information with little to no immediate practical application - and then joyfully, willfully, unrelentingly repeats it and teaches it to others. Look at how wild this crowd is, because they’re singing the same song! It doesn’t DO anything. It’s not even why they showed up here today! If you sent out a letter to those same 65,000 people that said, “Please show up in this field on this day in order to sing Bohemian Rhapsody,” very few of them would have showed up. But I would be surprised to meet a single person in that crowd who joined in the singing who doesn’t remember this moment as the most amazing part of a concert they paid hundreds of dollars to see.
And they’re just sharing an idea. It’s stunning and ridiculous. Something about how our brains work make us go, “Hey!! Hey everybody!! I found this idea! It’s good! I like it! I’m going to repeat it! Do you know it too?? Repeat it with me! Let’s get EVERYBODY to know it and repeat it and then we can all have it together at the same time! It’s a good idea! I’m so excited to repeat it exactly the way I heard it, as loudly as I can, as often as possible!!”
This is how culture happens! This is how countries happen! Sometimes a persistent, infectious idea - a meme - can be dangerous or dark. But our human delight at clutching up good memes like magpies and flapping back to our flock to yell about them to everyone we know is why we as a species bothered to start doing things like “telling stories” and “writing stuff down.”
“That’s a lot of spilled ink for a Queen song, Pyrrhic.”
Man I just fucking love people.
I think my favorite thing about this is that when 65,000 people are faced with the decision to sing either, “Bismillah! No, we will not let you go.” or “Let me go!” they pretty unanimously chose, “Let me go!”
Identity has become the axis of so much university activism because, for all the radical posturing associated with it, identity politics does not threaten the established order of society. It promotes a moralistic and self-indulgent anti-politics, where a person’s use of language and the purity of their thinking matters more than confronting collectively the material conditions and social relations under which they are forced to live. It creates a simulation of political struggle - one that doesn’t merely fail to challenge the material inequality and unfreedom of late capitalism, but fundamentally aligns with the dynamics and interests of its atomised, spectacle-driven society. It is a perfect mirror of consumerism, playing-upon the individual’s desires for real freedom, only to perpetuate and prettify the conditions of their alienation.
Martin Luther King Jr. made the forbidden connections between Capitalism, Imperialism, Racism, and the Vietnam War. As a result, after he was assassinated even his memory became toxic, a threat to public order. Foundations and corporations worked hard to remodel his legacy to fit a market-friendly format. The Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change, with an operational grant of $2 million, was set up by, among others, the Ford Motor Company, General Motors, Mobil, Western Electric, Proctor and Gamble, US Steel, and Monsanto. The center maintains the King Library and Archives of the Civil Rights Movement. Among the many programs the King Center runs have been projects that “work closely with the United States Department of Defense, the Armed Forces Chaplains Board and others.” It cosponsored the Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture Series called “The Free Enterprise System: An Agent for Nonviolent Social Change.
Capitalism: A Ghost Story by Arundhati Roy (via rikodeine)
