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If something capitalism has been able to accomplish was the spreading of prostitution. It is no more a business related to the body, it is now the daily routine of our behaviour in society. Our time, our dreams, our emotions, our hopes, our values, our ideas, we have prostituted everything.
- Unknown
When does a man die? When he is hit by a bullet? No. When he suffers a disease? No. When he eats a soup made out of a poisonous mushroom? No! A man dies when he is forgotten!
- Dr. Hiluluk (One Piece)
On the News (Publico.pt): A group of indigenous Amazonian pose for a photograph in Isiboro National Park, Bolivia. The Government of this country began a public consultation of this population about the possibility of building a highway that will pass through this area.
My Comment: Why don’t you make a consultation about the people’s well being? Why don’t you ask them what they need to have a better life? Instead of being concerned about a fucking stupid highway for your expensive cars?
(Photo credits: David Mercado/Reuters)
Human beings are definitely less intelligent than an amoeba.
2nd part of a conversation between Bruce Lipton and Tom Campbell. A must see to understand a little more about our evolution pattern.
This made me think on how sad it is the constant effort humans put on shortening ways for instant satisfaction. It is said that people do not enjoy the trip because they are always looking forward to the destination. However when they get there, they are so tired of waiting for it that it is no longer pleasurable. Even so because the real pleasure is not achieved by saving all of it to ourselves but by sharing it with everybody around us.
(Source: margretos)
(either if you like them or not in the end)
We reach a point where, in order to go on, we have to wipe the slate clean. We start to see ourselves as a box that we’re trapped inside and no matter how we try and escape, we just sink further and further down. The only way to truly break out of the box is to get rid of it all together… I mean, you built it in the first place. If the people around you are breaking your spirit, who needs them? Starting over isn’t crazy. Crazy is being miserable and walking around half asleep, numb, day after day after day. Crazy is pretending to be happy. Pretending that the way things are is the way they have to be for the rest of your bleeding life. All the potential, hope, all that joy, feeling, all that passion that life has sucked out of you. Reach out, grab a hold of it and snatch it back from that bloodsucking rabble.
- The Beaver (via sunnydaydelirium)
Thomas Kennington
Great Britain 1856-1916
Homeless 1890
oil on canvas
170.0 x 152.0 cm___
Homeless, 1890, is one of a series of works in which Kennington depicts the plight of women and children who were impoverished or destitute. Subjects such as these gained popularity during the 1870s and 1880s, partly as a result of the increasing influence of illustrated journals, which regularly commisssioned artists to provide images of ‘real’ life.
In Homeless, the square-brush technique used by Kennington in painting the wet pavement and the river, and his focus on subtle tonal variations rather than on colour - as in the soft grey light illuminating this scene - were among the characteristics adapted by British artists from French sources at the time.
This image made me think of all those forgotten people suffering and struggling for their lifes. Art can also be a mirror of society and a mirror of ourselves that let all this happen. And when you think that the fault lies on a minority of people that have great power and that are making the wrong decisions, think again. Because there are not minorities controlling people, instead there are large sums of people who have given up their responsibilities for the illusion of comfort and invited the minorities to control over them. An invitation is not a demand.
I AM (Full Documentary) - YouTube
I AM is a 2011 documentary film written, narrated, and directed by Tom Shadyac. The documentary explores Shadyac’s personal journey after a 2007 bicycle accident, “the nature of humanity” and “world’s ever-growing addiction to materialism.” The film, shot with Shadyac and a team of four, contrasts sharply with Shadyac’s previous comedic work. Shadyac had suffered post-concussion syndrome after a 2007 bicycle accident in Virginia, experiencing months of acute headaches and hyper-sensitivity to light and noise. The injury followed the cumulative effects of previous mild head injuries Shadyac had suffered surfing, mountain biking and playing basketball. A 2011 New York Times article stated that: “the symptoms of a concussion [didn’t] go away. Something as simple as a trip to the grocery store was painful for Shadyac, whose brain was unable to filter various stimuli. After medical treatments failed to help, he isolated himself completely, sleeping in his closet and walling the windows of his mobile home with black-out curtains. As his symptoms finally began to subside, the director wanted to share his inner quest in the way he knew best: through film.” Shadyac likened the experience to Dante’s Seventh Circle of Hell. Shadyac subsequently gave away his excess fortune, opening a homeless shelter in Charlottesville, Virginia and making a key donation to Telluride, Colorado’s effort to set aside a natural area at the town’s entrance. He reoriented and simplified his life, sold his 17,000-square-foot (1,600 m2) Los Angeles mansion and moved into a trailer park — albeit the exclusive Paradise Cove park in Malibu. In the film, Shadyac conducts interviews with scientists, religious leaders, environmentalists and philosophers including Desmond Tutu, Noam Chomsky, Lynne McTaggart, Elisabet Sahtouris, David Suzuki, Howard Zinn, and Thom Hartmann. The film asks two central questions: What’s Wrong With the World? and What Can We Do About it?. It is about “human connectedness, happiness, and the human spirit”, and explores themes including Darwinism, Western mores, loneliness, the economy, and the drive to war. The documentary includes animated scenes explaining scientific concepts, as well as clips from the films Wall Street and It’s a Wonderful Life. The L.A. Times said the film “was collection of sound bites that validate the filmmaker’s point of view. What lifts the film above its dubious boilerplate assemblage of talking heads and archival images is Shadyac himself. With his gentle, self-mocking humor, he comes across as an exceptionally mellow, earnest and likable guy.” Roger Ebert gave the film a negative review, stating that the “film is often absurd and never less than giddy with uplift, but that’s not to say it’s bad. I watched with an incredulous delight, and at the end, I liked Tom Shadyac quite a lot…he offers us this hopeful if somewhat undigested cut of his findings, in a film as watchable as a really good TV commercial, and just as deep. ” Proceeds from the documentary go to the Foundation for I AM, which supports various charities. Review: Wikipedia (via I AM (Full Documentary) - YouTube)
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