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[F]or the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world… . For everything to be consummated, for me to feel less alone, I had only to wish that there be a large crowd of spectators the day of my execution and that they greet me with cries of hate.
The Stranger, Albert Camus (via philphys)Posted on May 28, 2012 via Philosophy with 107 notes
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Infographic of the Day: According to the CDC, meals have quadrupled in size since the ’50s — and subsequently, we’ve gained an average of 26 pounds apiece.
Sick.
Literally.
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Infographic of the Day: According to the CDC, meals have quadrupled in size since the ’50s — and subsequently, we’ve gained an average of 26 pounds apiece.
Sick.
Literally.
[gizmodo]
Thisiswhyyourefat.com
Posted on May 24, 2012 via The Daily What with 1,371 notes
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Trampled By Turtles throws down a bluegrass version of Arcade Fire’s “Rebellion (Lies)” for A.V. Undercover. Good luck getting this one out of your head.
A cover version done right: do it your style, but don’t make it eclectic for eclectic’s sake. Well done, Trampled by Turtles.
Posted on May 2, 2012 via The A.V. Club with 34 notes
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We don’t know who picked the music in last night’s episode of The Simpsons but they did an amazing job. Both Animal Collective’s Winter Love and Hot Chip’s Boy From Schoolwere featured in the episode. Click through to watch:
Welcome to 2005, Simpsons!
Posted on May 1, 2012 via The Strut on Tumblr with 19 notes
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Why is it necessary to assert that every good thing about America can only be found in America? We should continue to be enormously proud of the fact that we were the first democracy, but sometimes we act as though America is the only place in the world that isn’t still ruled by a king. Are we so insecure about ourselves and our nation that we have to be constantly told that we’re the most terrific country that ever was or ever will be, and there’s nobody else even remotely like us? Is Mitt Romney running for president, or does he want to be some combination of a proud grandfather and a national life coach?
Enough With “Only In America” (via azspot)
“Only in America, or possibly Canada could my family find such opportunity.”
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Posted on April 27, 2012 via AZspot with 56 notes
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Let us not blame people and their attitudes: the problem is not corruption or greed, the problem is the system that pushes you to be corrupt. The solution is neither Main Street nor Wall Street, but to change the system where Main Street cannot function without Wall Street. Public figures from the pope downward bombard us with injunctions to fight the culture of excessive greed and consummation – this disgusting spectacle of cheap moralization is an ideological operation, if there ever was one: the compulsion (to expand) inscribed into the system itself is translated into personal sin, into a private psychological propensity, or, as one of the theologians close to the pope put it: “The present crisis is not crisis of capitalism but the crisis of morality.
Occupy Wall Street: what is to be done next?
Slavoj Žižek
(via bostonreview)
But how do you get the fish to realize that the water they swim in is not what it should or could be? Or as Zizek puts it later in the same article:
The self-propelling circulation of Capital remains more than ever the ultimate Real of our lives, a beast that by definition cannot be controlled.
It is far too big a break with the world as it is known - not understood, but known - by the vast majority of people nowadays to seem possible. Only the truly insane have no suspicions that they are insane.
Posted on April 25, 2012 via BOSTON REVIEW with 13 notes
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Don’t Be A Fucking Asshole on the NYC Subway
I’d like to launch an awareness campaign aimed at rude New Yorkers, written in a style they’ll understand, so that one day, maybe, they won’t be quite so shitty.
I should note that most New Yorkers are completely wonderful, caring people. It’s just that some of us seem to enjoy the “New Yorkers are assholes” thing a bit too much.
Yes. Thank you. All of this.
Anywhere in the world, don’t be a Fucking Asshole.
Yep, definitely not applicable to just the NYC subway.
I would like to print these up and post them all over Hong Kong, not just in MTR stations.
Posted on April 25, 2012 via Streeter Seidell with 11,955 notes
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Posted on April 24, 2012 via no empire no longer with 131 notes
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To extend the life span of neoliberalism, it needs ideological justification. Facebook explicitly wants to be that. It sustains a subject that is not inauthentic and opportunistic in its perpetual networking but liberated to be and do more. Quantify yourself, increase that quantity.
“Facebook in the Age of Facebook,” by Rob Horning | Read More.
I’m hoping that re-blogging this will help me finally become a stream-lined person… a boy can dream….
Posted on April 20, 2012 via The New Inquiry with 144 notes
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Oh, so that’s all there is to it? Cool. Get right on that.
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Posted on April 19, 2012 via Alt Lit Gossip with 1,333 notes
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