Adventures in Blunderland

Writer. Critic. Refugee.

[starlet-sky]

“As an organism there is nothing more relevant or sacred than what you put into your body.”

— Bryant McGill (via psychetronictonic)

[pleaslucian]

Belief without action is empty. Faith without works is dead.

[pleaslucian]

The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.

Frank Zappa

[esotericaroma]

[pleaslucian]

Letter to Kaepernick: Where Do You Go from Here? | Black Agenda Report

Long before the Nike deal it was clear that Kaepernick’s politics were being subsumed by other forces pushing a weak soup of “diversity

[pleaslucian]

“No culture on earth is as heavily narcotized as the industrial West in terms of being inured to the consequences of maladaptive behavior. We pursue a business-as-usual attitude in a surreal atmosphere of mounting crises and irreconcilable contradictions.””

— Terence McKenna

[necessary-disorder]

[somethoughtseeds]

[pleaslucian]

It must be remembered that the U.S. Army that entered and conquered Mexico represented a slaveholding republic fighting against an abolitionist nation-state. Many Southern officers brought along slaves and servants on the quest to spread “liberty” to the Mexicans. Some of the enslaved took the opportunity to escape into the interior of a non-slaveholding country. The irony was astounding.

Danny Sjursen, American History for Truthdiggers (Part 15)

[pleaslucian]

The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer.

D.H. Lawrence

[pleaslucian]

Knowing is not enough. We must apply. Willing is not enough. We must DO.

Bruce Lee

[pleaslucian]

Belief, like fear or love, is a force to be understood as we understand the theory of relativity and principals of uncertainty—phenomena that determine the course of our lives. Yesterday, my life was headed in one direction. Today, it is headed in another. Yesterday, I believe I would never have done what I did today. These forces that often remake time and space, that can shape and alter who we imagine ourselves to be, begin long before we are born and continue after we perish. Our lives and our choices, like quantum trajectories, are understood moment to moment. That each point of intersection, each encounter, suggests a new potential direction.

David Mitchell

[pleaslucian]

‘People hate the truth for the sake of whatever it is they love more than the truth. They love truth when it shines warmly on them, and hate it when it rebukes them.’

St. Augustine

[pleaslucian]

Even if I am alone with one other person, culture is the third guest at the table.

Terence McKenna

[rollership]

“We have the money, the power, the medical understanding, the scientific know-how, the love and the community to produce a kind of human paradise. But we are led by the least among us — the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary. We are led by the least among us and we do not fight back against the dehumanizing values that are handed down as control icons.”

— Terence Mckenna (via machineelves)

[vero-in-technicolor]

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[pleaslucian]

“One of the reasons for the extraordinary pressure of consumerism, which goes back to the 1920s, is the recognition by the business world that unless it atomizes people, unless it drives them to what it calls the “superficial things of life, such as fashionable consumption,” the population may turn on them. Right now, for example, about 80% of the U.S. population believes that the country is, in their words, run by “a few big interests looking out for themselves,” not for the benefit of the population. About 95% of the population thinks that the government ought to pay regular attention to public opinion. The degree of alienation from institutions is enormous. As long as people are atomized, worried about maxing out their credit cards, separated from one another, and don’t hear serious critical discussion, the ideas can be controlled.”

— Noam Chomsky (via noam-chomsky)