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vintageanchor: “All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche

vintageanchor:

“All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“The plain fact is that the planet does not need more “successful” people. But it does desperately need more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of every shape and form. It needs people who live well in their places. It needs people of moral courage willing to join the fight to make the world habitable and humane. And these needs have little to do with success as our culture has defined it.” —David W. Orr  (via ceedling)

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“The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory.” —Kafka on the Shore (via njetotsjka)

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“The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory.” —Kafka on the Shore (via njetotsjka)

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“Together, they would watch everything that was so carefully planned collapse, and they would smile at the beauty of destruction.” —Markus Zusak (via freins)

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vintageanchor: “Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.” ― Nathaniel Hawthorne

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“Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne

“People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you. You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity. Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It’s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head. You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.” —Banksy (via charmingly-awkward)

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“I do not feel that we should set up PEOPLE as “models”; rather actions, thoughts, principles.” —Noam Chomsky (via noam-chomsky)

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papermag: Kanye, Diddy and Jay-Z depicted as 17th Century Noblemen in street artist Kai’s opening, “Now Royalty.” Click for more portraits.

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Kanye, Diddy and Jay-Z depicted as 17th Century Noblemen in street artist Kai’s opening, “Now Royalty.”

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Grandmas House - 2x03 

-The Day Simon Attempted to Express Actual Feelings Just Like a Person

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But nevertheless, there is a complex system of filters in the media and educational institutions which ends up ensuring that dissident perspectives are weeded out, or marginalized in one way or another. And the end result is in fact quite similar: what are called opinions “on the left” and “on the right” in the media represent only a limited spectrum of debate, which reflects the range of needs of private power - but there’s essentially nothing beyond those “acceptable” positions.

So what the media do, in effect, is to take the set of assumptions which express the basic ideas of the propaganda system…and then present a range of debate within that framework - so the debate only enhances the strength of the assumptions, ingraining them in people’s minds as the entire possible spectrum of opinion that there is.

” —Noam Chomsky (via noam-chomsky)
How a bro at a party can be Dasein: A summary of Heidegger's Being and Time
“The problem is not changing people’s consciousnesses - or what’s in their heads - but the political, economic, institutional regime of the production of truth. It’s not a matter of emancipating truth from every system of power (which would be a chimera, for truth is already power) but of detaching the power of truth from the forms of hegemony, social, economic and cultural, within which it operates at the present time.” —Michel Foucault, Truth and Power
“Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, it’s unlikely you will step up and take responsibility for making it so. If you assume that there’s no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there’s a chance you may contribute to making a better world. The choice is yours.” —Noam Chomsky (via fuckyeahchomsky)

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