“ Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.” -Denis Diderot

posted : Friday, June 18th, 2010

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“ When people become broken, they cannot act on truths of injustice. Furthermore, when people have become broken, more truths about how they have been victimized can lead to shame about how they have allowed it. And shame, like fear, is one more way we become even more psychologically broken.
— Bruce E. Levine’s article  “Are Americans A Broken People? Why We’ve Stopped Fighting Back Against The Forces of Oppression”

posted : Monday, June 7th, 2010

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Right or wrong?

How do you know what’s right, and what’s wrong? Are we truly meant to follow society’s popular opinion, that dictates what is good and what’s bad? Or is it more noble to follow our own instincts, despite consequence? Further, if we’re meant to follow popular opinion, from where does that popular opinion come? Who generated the first dictation? Why are such rules as laws and obligations meant to be so adamant, so firm and solid? And if true rebellion is noble in the shadow of true cause and justification, why is resulting consequence regarded so highly?

These are the questions that have been flooding ninety percent of my daily conscious thought lately, and it’s incredibly sad that I can’t find answers.

posted : Saturday, June 5th, 2010

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“ The intelligent man may have the same violent and unsocial impulses as the ignorant man, but surely he will control them better, and slip less often into imitation of the beast.
— Will Durant, on Plato. “The Story of Philosophy”, page 10.

posted : Saturday, June 5th, 2010

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Air’s “La Femme D’argent.” (“The Money Woman”, roughly translated)

posted : Friday, May 28th, 2010

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“ So much of our lives is meaningless, a self-canceling vacillation and futility; we strive with the chaos about us and within; but we would believe all the while that there is something vital and significant in us, could we but decipher our own souls.
— William Durant, The Story of Philosophy. “Introduction, On The Uses of Philosophy.” pp. xxiv.

posted : Friday, May 28th, 2010

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Beth Ditto is so amazing. She has so much energy, so much charisma. Watch and learn, I suppose.

posted : Friday, January 15th, 2010

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