If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present.
Lao Tzu (via stxxz)
(via electric-sympathy)
If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present.
Lao Tzu (via stxxz)
(via electric-sympathy)
Resist
This symbol represents a the resistor of modern technology. It is a device used to control current in an electric circuit by providing resistance. In the social realm, the current to be controlled are the political forces in motion. Our country is under attack by its own operating system; its caught a virus.
The ideological struggle for dominance this generation is marked distinct from any other by a competition to control the flow of information; modern global political economics is dominated by the this network of knowledge. Although resistors are small in comparison to their motherboard environments, they play a vital role in stopping the flow of energy. Likewise the spirit of ideological resistance may be marked by individual acts of resistance all over the world; we are all a part of a global socio-poltical circuit.
95Three awful things you learn as you get older — and while they don’t define life (which is overwhelming grand) they sure can put barriers in the way of individual and social progress. This is just some stuff you need to know:
One — No one is ever wrong. People will defend an opinion or an action until the end, even if every bit of logic and evidence runs contrary. Sincere apologies and genuine admissions of error and wrongdoing are the rarest things in this world. Meanwhile, there is no reward for being right. On the contrary, people will resent you and try to take you down, which leads to point two.
Two — Excellence makes you a target of envy and can often harm your prospects for success. Meritocracy exists, and even prevails, but it is realized through your own initiative, and it is never just granted freely by some individual or institution. All progress comes about because you alone push through the attempts of everyone around you to stop it.
Three — Average people will sacrifice every principle and every truth for the sake of security. This is because people, with very few exceptions, fear the uncertainty of a free and unknown future more than the seeming security of a known and unfree status quo. They will give up every right and every bit of their soul for the promise of security, even to the point of obeying wicked despots. You can break free of this tendency but it takes courage, risk taking, and a conscious act of defying the convention.
Jeffrey Tucker (via anarchei)
(Source: timlebsack, via anarchei)
For the next few days, I checked the newspapers for reports of an accidental death in the subway of a drunk who crawled into the path of a train, and when I didn’t find any such story, I began to feel as if I had dreamed up the entire evening from start to finish, or, rather, that someone else had dreamed it up for me and put me as the lead actor into it—this cautionary tale whose moral was that I had no gift for the life I’d been leading. I took to bed the way you do when you have to think something out. My identity having overtaken me, I called in sick to the restaurant and didn’t manage to get to an audition I had scheduled. A lethargy thrummed through me, and I dreamed that someone pointed at my body stretched out on the floor and said, “It’s dead.” What frightened me was not my death, but that pronoun: “I” had become an “it.
Benjamin, The Cousins by Charles Baxter (via royalrex)
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Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.
Thomas Fuller (via quotedojo)
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Extraordinary photos of young hitchhikers and freight train hoppers by Mike Brodie
Mike Brodie (tumblr | facebook) first began photographing in 2004 when he was given a Polaroid camera. Working under the moniker, The Polaroid Kidd, Brodie spent the next four years circumambulating the U.S. amassing an archive of photographs that would go on to make up one of the few, true collections of American travel photography. Having never undergone any formal training, he chose to remained untethered to the pressures and expectations of the art market.
LOVE this series!
(via get-dressed-get-blessed)
(Source: downinthegroove)
Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer (Father of the atomic bomb)
Truly the face of a haunted man.
Possibly the most poignant sound byte ever.
(Source: imagineatoms, via flushthiscity)
I am on a sort of crossroads in my life and I can do without that. I can feel the attraction but I can also keep myself apart. I admire beauty more than anything else but now I don’t feel I must possess it. The ideal man or woman doesn’t exist. When you look for something you are not really looking for a man or a woman. You are looking for someone who awakes something which is buried inside you and once that person does it you become familiar and you always want that and then you stay with that person. But two people who are in love are not in love just with each other. There is a third element intermingled and that third element is an ideal. Both must love the same ideal and that is what they have to share. If that doesn’t exist, then it’s not love, it’s necessity.
Bob Dylan, 1989. (via elston-gunnn)
Summer of Chaos TOUR w/ Ramshackle Glory (for most dates):
Friday, June 21 - New Orleans, LA
Saturday, June 22 - Tallahassee, FL
Sunday, June 23 - Florida, FL
Monday, June 24 - Florida, FL
Tuesday, June 25 - St Augustine, FL
Wednesday, June 26 - South Carolina coast
Thursday, June 27 - Greenville, SC
Friday, June 28 - Charlotte, NC
Saturday, June 29 - Richmond, VA
Sunday, June 30 - Virginia Beach, VA
TOUR STARTS W/ RAMSHACKLE GLORY
Monday, July 1 - Washington DC (w/Ramshackle Glory)
Tuesday, July 2 - Baltimore, MD (w/Ramshackle Glory)
Wednesday, July 3 - Lancaster/Harrisburgh, PA (w/Ramshackle Glory)
Thursday, July 4 - Philadelphia, PA (w/Ramshackle Glory)
Friday, July 5 - New Brunswick, NJ (w/Ramshackle Glory)
Saturday, July 6 - NYC (w/Ramshackle Glory)
Sunday, July 7 - Providence RI (w/Ramshackle Glory)
Monday, July 8 - Brattleboro, VT (w/Ramshackle Glory)
Tuesday, July 9 - Worcester, MA (w/Ramshackle Glory)
Wednesday, July 10 - Boston, MA (w/Ramshackle Glory)
Thursday, July 11 - Albany, NY (w/Ramshackle Glory)
Friday, July 12 - Buffalo, NY (w/Ramshackle Glory)
Saturday, July 13 - Pittsburgh, PA (w/Ramshackle Glory)
Sunday, July 14 - Huntington WV (w/Ramshackle Glory)
Monday, July 15 - Columbus OH (w/Ramshackle Glory)
Tuesday, July 16 - Detroit, MI (w/Ramshackle Glory)
Wednesday, July 17 - Kalamazoo, MI (w/Ramshackle Glory)
Thursday, July 18 - Chicago, IL (w/Ramshackle Glory)
Friday, July 19 - CHAOS FEST in Bloomington, IN
Saturday, July 20 - CHOAS FEST
Sunday, July 21 - COAHS FEST (we’re playing this day with Ramshackle Glory and Ghost Mice at Red Lobster)
BACK TO JUST THE TAXPAYERS
Monday, July 22 - Southern, IL
Tuesday, July 23 - Memphis, TN
Wednesday, July 24 - Nashville, TN
Thursday, July 25 - Decatur, AL
Friday, July 26 - Athens, GA
Saturday, July 27 - Atlanta, GA
Sunday, July 28 - Alabama / Mississippi
Monday, July 29 - New Orleans, LA
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.
John Adams (via theantistatist)
