Totem

Push peace. Keep the emotion. Earthling. Age: solar. Sex: seasonal. No nations, no borders, just people. “Things are transformed one into another according to necessity, and render justice to one another according to the order of time.” Anaximander, the Greek philosopher who lived twenty-six centuries ago

[quotespile]

“Once again reality has proved that no particular group has a monopoly over demagogy, dogmatism, and ignorance.”

— Roberto Bolaño, Last Evenings on Earth

[angelnumber27]

[totem-metot]

I tried to tell you…

[afbcb]

[afbcb]

[awkwardsituationist]

[animentality]

[funeral]

Your perception, however instantaneous, consists then in an incalculable multitude of remembered elements; in truth, every perception is already memory. Practically, we perceive only the past, the pure present being the invisible progress of the past gnawing into the future. Consciousness, then, illumines, at each moment of time, that immediate part of the past which, impending over the future, seeks to realize and to associate with it. Solely preoccupied in thus determining an undetermined future, consciousness may shed a little of its light on those of our states, more remote in the past, which can be usefully combined with our present state, that is to say, with our immediate past: the rest remains in the dark. It is in this illuminated part of our history that we remain seated, in virtue of the fundamental law of life, which is a law of action: hence the difficulty we experience in conceiving memories which are preserved in the shadow. Our reluctance to admit the integral survival of the past has its origin, then, in the very bent of our psychical life—an unfolding of states wherein our interest prompts us to look at that which is unrolling, and not at that which is entirely unrolled.

Henri Bergson, Matter and Memory

[kaalbela]

Van Gogh's brush strokes

[shisasan]

𝙼𝚊𝚛𝚌𝚑 𝟷𝟺, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟻 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙳𝚒𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝙾𝚏 𝙵𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚣 𝙺𝚊𝚏𝚔𝚊, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟺-𝟷𝟿𝟸𝟹

[totem-metot]

Thesis-antithesis-synthesis-new thesis-new antithesis etc.

[pollen]

Mary Oliver, from "Such Singing in the Wild Branches"

[kosmogrl]

I wish I could stay here forever

[kosmogrl]

[depsidase]

[mattoidal]

“Get a rat and put it in a cage and give it two water bottles. One is just water, and one is water laced with either heroin or cocaine. If you do that, the rat will almost always prefer the drugged water and almost always kill itself very quickly, right, within a couple of weeks. So there you go. It’s our theory of addiction. Bruce comes along in the ‘70s and said, “Well, hang on a minute. We’re putting the rat in an empty cage. It’s got nothing to do. Let’s try this a little bit differently.” So Bruce built Rat Park, and Rat Park is like heaven for rats. Everything your rat about town could want, it’s got in Rat Park. It’s got lovely food. It’s got sex. It’s got loads of other rats to be friends with. It’s got loads of colored balls. Everything your rat could want. And they’ve got both the water bottles. They’ve got the drugged water and the normal water. But here’s the fascinating thing. In Rat Park, they don’t like the drugged water. They hardly use any of it. None of them ever overdose. None of them ever use in a way that looks like compulsion or addiction. There’s a really interesting human example I’ll tell you about in a minute, but what Bruce says is that shows that both the right-wing and left-wing theories of addiction are wrong. So the right-wing theory is it’s a moral failing, you’re a hedonist, you party too hard. The left-wing theory is it takes you over, your brain is hijacked. Bruce says it’s not your morality, it’s not your brain; it’s your cage. Addiction is largely an adaptation to your environment. […] We’ve created a society where significant numbers of our fellow citizens cannot bear to be present in their lives without being drugged, right? We’ve created a hyperconsumerist, hyperindividualist, isolated world that is, for a lot of people, much more like that first cage than it is like the bonded, connected cages that we need. The opposite of addiction is not sobriety. The opposite of addiction is connection. And our whole society, the engine of our society, is geared towards making us connect with things. If you are not a good consumer capitalist citizen, if you’re spending your time bonding with the people around you and not buying stuff—in fact, we are trained from a very young age to focus our hopes and our dreams and our ambitions on things we can buy and consume. And drug addiction is really a subset of that.”

— Johann Hari, Does Capitalism Drive Drug Addiction?

[depsidase]

[salmaciansalix]

She doesn't want to be your hero. It's worthless for any of us to lionize her if we aren't doing anything concrete to end capitalism or genocide in our own lives.

Her whole intent in being arrested by Israel twice was not for you to focus on her, it's to draw attention, and preferably action, to the causes she's fighting for.

[theconcealedweapon]

This is one of the many reasons why authoritarian parenting doesn’t work.

The father here is clearly not authoritarian. He acknowledges that children deserve explanations for why their actions are wrong. He acknowledges that it's wrong to use your size against someone. And I'm going to guess that he leads by example. He was able to enforce a rule by explaining the reason for it instead of by demanding subservience to him.

But for authoritarian parents, they regularly use their size and their authority against their children. It's impossible to teach your child that it's wrong to do something when it's exactly how you treat them.

[sultrysinns]

Hands up who’s #flawsome ✋🏻