lost and stumbling

We’ve got to regain knowledge again, and we’ve got to regain an understanding again, of who we are. Not just those chosen to fuel systems, but individuals who have the power to criticize and analyze, and attack injustice when it becomes prevalent and apparent in front of our faces like it is in ours right now. We’ve been all put to sleep. Put to sleep to a system. A system that continues to perpetrate ignorance amongst our spirits and amongst our minds. One that wants you not to act. A system that would rather see all of you at that bar drinking beer filling your minds being put to sleep with beer or with drugs, rather than acting against it and fighting a system which has been perpetrating imperialist lies and other fucking bullshit for five hundred years. So fucking drink up or fucking wake up. You’re part of the solution or you’re part of the fucking problem. I am sick and tired of my own complacence in my life and I know I’m fucking sick of yours. So wake up and stop fucking sleeping. Wake Up!

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Property

robcayman:

all property can be defined under two separate classes

1 Physical Resources

2 Intellectual Resources

The second one can be infinite (since there is no known limit to human thought besides humans), but only if you sustain the first.

This means that if you manage your finite resources, you can create infinite resources and this, in my opinion, is the ideal of economics (though i’m sure no textbook has ever put it that way)

An infinite resource cannot have a price though, since this would render it finite and the surplus would go waste. This is exactly what is happening under the current fiscal paradigm.

Since no economist can accurately quantify our potential intellectual property the way we do an oil field, we are stuck with an apparent potential for infinite planetary growth, since our physical resources are valued using the same system as our intellectual resources, money.

The result is a need to inflate an economy, in order to attempt to fill the gap between the finite and the infinite, but since that is clearly an unfillable gap, we have a problem. The system HAS to fail, because eventually, the Physical resources will no longer be able to back the inflated economy.

I suggest a seperation and re-classification of resources, with a stable, non-inflationary tracking system for the physical resources, and an dynamic expandable tracking system for the intellectual property.

With a new system, we could easily establish exactly how much we have of everything, how much of everything we need, what options are truly available to us to solve each of our problems, and most importantly, what the impact of our usage is. This knowledge could then assist the growth of our intellectual resources.  

Such a paradigm would allow each individual to expand their own potential for intellectual resource creation. While under the current system, the majority of the people’s potential is actually directly limited, while this limitation causes the misuse of our physical resources.

something’s gotta give, and before it all comes crumbling down on our heads, we should start thinking about making some changes. I’m one person with a few ideas, some of which, i’m proud to say, are not too bad. What could we achieve in a world where all our ideas are nurtured, and our planet itself cared for?

why run your neck, america? where is your humility?

the cold war is over, and 9/11 was a fucking decade ago. shut the fuck up about other countries, and focus on fixing your own shit for fucking once.

thepoliticalnotebook:

Photos from the ongoing police-protester standoff in Oakland right now. All of the photos were taken by Intifada Tent, a Twitter user currently live-tweeting from Oakland. The tear gas canister pictured above is, according to @IntifadaTent, the same brand used by the Israeli military.

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what kind of america are you okay with?

forget the perfect, gleaming and glorious utopian government that everyone seems to think they want. we’ll never even be as good as we say we are, even if we’re ruthlessly calling ourselves on our shit. forget anything we imagine we could ever hope to accomplish, and right now focus instead on what mistakes, what wrong moves and fouls we should permit ourselves to get away with; what is your margin of error for your government?

at what point would you say, ‘whoa, wait a second, that’s fucked up’ in response to something you saw on the news?

what would make you speak out against social injustices and human rights violations you’ve seen repeated consequence-free?

would you contact your senator to protest and demand redress if your rights as a citizen, if all the american government’s promises about due process and civil rights, were denied you by the police?

we as a nation do not act in accordance with the collective will of our individual citizens. the things our country does are so firmly against the gut desire of most americans that it seems like the United States has schizophrenia. we are a nation at odds with itself. and while no one citizen can be expected to singlehandedly mount an offensive against the government of the most overtly powerful country in the world, what is our responsibility? they don’t teach civics in school anymore. the average american hardly has a clue how our government is purported to run. the average individual’s personal responsibility as a citizen is an elusive, vague and murky concept.

what does it mean when the government, and the politicians who direct and have authority over it, can be bought? 

it means this generation of american citizens is unaware of its own government’s atrocities, and unprepared to prevent or even influence the deceptively quick corruption and destruction of every one of the united states of america’s few existing redeeming qualities.

fuckyeahdrugpolicy:

The war on the truth about drugs | The Guardian

As a country, we look back in horror now at the delusions of other eras – when it was illegal to be gay, for instance, or when women could not vote. Yet we do not stop and see that we are living through another one. Decriminalisation would end the violent illegal drug trade; drug treatment and prescription for addicts would prevent them from committing crime. Both measures would make gigantic savings on the cost of policing and imprisoning offenders, and on clearing up the consequences of their actions. They would also end the outrage of people being locked up for the crime of seeking mostly harmless fun. It’s our laws that are destroying lives. +

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"I don’t really know how people can be alive for more than six days without rage. If you live in this world, how can you not have it?"

Martin Freeman in an article from The Times online (via benedictatorship)

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our government is writing absurd and useless laws to keep our attention while they write separate laws that eradicate our human rights.

they’re distracting us with sopa and pipa and acta while they staff fema camps in preparation for complete authoritarian rule.

the eightfold path

The Noble Eightfold Path describes the way to the end of suffering, as it was laid out by Siddhartha Gautama. It is a practical guideline to ethical and mental development with the goal of freeing the individual from attachments and delusions; and it finally leads to understanding the truth about all things. Together with the Four Noble Truths, it constitutes the gist of Buddhism. Great emphasis is put on the practical aspect, because it is only through practice that one can attain a higher level of existence and finally reach Nirvana. The eight aspects of the path are not to be understood as a sequence of single steps; instead, they are highly interdependent principles that have to be seen in relationship with each other.

(Source: thebigview.com)

lostandstumbling:

Lumumba was democracy, Mossadegh was democracy,
Allende was democracy, Hypocrisy it bothers me.
Call you terrorists if you don’t wanna be a colony?
We used to bow down to a policy of robbery!
Is terrorism my lyrics, when more Vietnam vets kill themselves after the war than died in it?
This is very basic.
One nation in the world has over a thousand military bases!
They say it’s religion, when clearly it isn’t.
It’s not just Muslims that oppose your imperialism:
 Is Hugo Chavez a Muslim? Nah.. I didn’t think so.
Is Castro a Muslim? Nah.. I didn’t think so.

It’s like the definition didn’t ever exist.
I guess it’s all just depending who your nemesis is,
Irrelevant how eloquent the rhetoric peddler is
They’re telling fibs, now tell us who the terrorist is

They’re calling me a terrorist
Like they don’t know who the terror is
When they put it on me, I tell them this
I’m all about peace and love.
They’re calling me a terrorist
Like they don’t know who the terror is
Insulting my intelligence
Oh, how these people judge…

Lumumba was democracy, Mossadegh was democracy,
Allende was democracy, Hypocrisy it bothers me.
Call you terrorists if you don’t wanna be a colony?
We used to bow down to a policy of robbery!
Is terrorism my lyrics, when more Vietnam vets kill themselves after the war than died in it?
This is very basic.
One nation in the world has over a thousand military bases!
They say it’s religion, when clearly it isn’t.
It’s not just Muslims that oppose your imperialism:
Is Hugo Chavez a Muslim? Nah.. I didn’t think so.
Is Castro a Muslim? Nah.. I didn’t think so.

It’s like the definition didn’t ever exist.
I guess it’s all just depending who your nemesis is,
Irrelevant how eloquent the rhetoric peddler is
They’re telling fibs, now tell us who the terrorist is

improper:

metaconscious:

Full-Body Scan Technology Deployed In Street-Roving Vans

As the privacy controversy around full-body security scans begins to simmer, it’s worth noting that courthouses and airport security checkpoints aren’t the only places where backscatter x-ray vision is being deployed. The same technology, capable of seeing through clothes and walls, has also been rolling out on U.S. streets.

American Science & Engineering, a company based in Billerica, Massachusetts, has sold U.S. and foreign government agencies more than 500 backscatter x-ray scanners mounted in vans that can be driven past neighboring vehicles to see their contents.

and yet, I’M THE ONLY AMERICAN SCARED? Oh man, it seems this way. I bring up anything to anyone and i’m the “paranoid one”, well fucking jesus man, LOOK AT THIS SHIT. If this isn’t a REASON TO BE SCARED, then by golly, what the hell is?

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“The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is a normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave”.

– Assata Shakur

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Occupy Movement reactions in the US - wikipedia

On 16 October 2011, President Barack Obama spoke in support of the movement, though also asked protesters not to “demonize” finance workers. Local authorities in the United States have collaborated to develop strategies to respond to the Occupy movement and its encampments, and political leaders in eighteen United States cities consulted on cracking down on the Occupy movement, according to Oakland Mayor Jean Quan, who participated in a conference call. Within a span of less than 24 hours, municipal authorities in Denver, Salt Lake City, Portland, Oakland and New York City sent in police to crack down on the encampments of the Occupy movement.

Impact

On November 10, 2011, The Daily Telegraph reported that occupy had been the “most commonly used English word on the internet and in print” over the past 12 months according to a top ten list published by media analysis company Global Language Monitor.

Seattle activist Dorli Rainey, 84, reacts after police hit her with pepper spray during an Occupy Seattle protest on Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2011 at Westlake Park in Seattle. Protesters gathered in the intersection of 5th Avenue and Pine Street after marching from their camp at Seattle Central Community College in support of Occupy Wall Street. Many refused to move from the intersection after being ordered by police. Police then began indiscriminately spraying pepper spray into the gathered crowd, hitting dozens of people.