Plant more trees.

May 25

cultureofresistance:

“This is the secret of propaganda: To totally saturate the person, whom the propaganda wants to lay hold of, with the ideas of the propaganda, without him even noticing that he is being saturated.”

— Paul Watzlawick

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Kia ora

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May 19

humanformat:

ayiman:guardiancomment:

‘Appreciating Native American headdresses is great. Wearing a headdress when you have not been authorised to wear one is not.’

Jessica Metcalfe on the appropriation of Native American fashion and design. Photograph: J Scott Applewhite/AP

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A shedload of white people who just don’t get it.

How new and different.

Oh, and just in case you don’t feel like wading through hundreds of examples of white bullshit that hasn’t all been addressed here and elsewhere dozens of times, the examples are:

• The false equivalency (Ie: non-italian people shouldn’t wear an italian army jacket, the infamous “pants and shirts” argument) that fails to recognize the difference between commodities and cultural expressions
• The “citizens of the world” nonsense, eliding things like colonialism, genocide and neo-liberal exploitation by implying a universal human experience that just doesn’t exist
• The idea that these things are an ‘exchange’ which ignores the fact that exchange cannot come through coercion, that an exchange requires some kind of receipt and fails to recognize that there is a power dynamic expressed most obviously in the prominence of industrial mass-culture in comparison to the spiritual and cultural practices of Native people.
• The fact that we speak English (which was violently imposed on us) means that we are required to compensate our colonial masters for this ‘gift’ by allowing unfettered access to the remains of our culture.
• The inherent sexism, which again, betrays a complete lack of understanding of Plains cultures and again views these cultures in terms of liberal subjectivity which demands examination through eurocentric conceptions of universalism.
• The idea that in art, nothing is sacred and everything is ripe for theft.  Art doesn’t exist on a separate plane of existence and is always subject to critical examination from outside a normative sphere.  Full stop.
• The classic entitlement.  The idea that people should be able to take and do what they please.
• “free speech” zzz
• “freedom of expression” zzz

Of course, this is The Guardian, which is an English newspaper, and as we all know,  England is part of Europe.  Europe is where the colonial ball started rolling in the first place.

so,

Fuck Europe.

Seriously.  Fuck Europe.

Agreed

thesunshinesoul:

Because money is power :(

‘Cause of assholes.

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dreamspeaker:

“Our words, our thoughts, and our feelings all contribute to the creation of our reality. Our word is a two-edged sword, it can create or it can destroy. To be impeccable is to create with conscious awareness and love. Our perceptions of others are merely reflections of ourselves. Therefore, to put another down or project negative words or energy towards another person, is to lash out at the other person because of our own insecurities. The human mind is fertile ground for the seeds that are our word. So plant the seeds of love, not fear. Judging, blaming, shaming, and especially gossiping create poison in ourselves and others. This agreement alone is enough to break all of your old agreements and change the dream of your life.”

—Don Miguel Ruiz

The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom

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From the moment when the machine first made its appearance, it was clear to all thinking people that the need for human drudgery, and therefore to a great extent for human inequality, had disappeared. If the machine were used deliberately for that end, hunger, overwork, dirt, illiteracy, and disease could be eliminated within a few generations. And in fact, without being used for any such purpose, but by a sort of automatic process — by producing wealth which it was sometimes impossible not to distribute — the machine did raise the living standards of the average humand being very greatly over a period of about fifty years at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries.

But it was also clear that an all-round increase in wealth threatened the destruction — indeed, in some sense was the destruction — of a hierarchical society. In a world in which everyone worked short hours, had enough to eat, lived in a house with a bathroom and a refrigerator, and possessed a motor-car or even an aeroplane, the most obvious and perhaps the most important form of inequality would already have disappeared. If it once became general, wealth would confer no distinction. It was possible, no doubt, to imagine a society in which wealth, in the sense of personal possessions and luxuries, should be evenly distributed, while power remained in the hands of a small privileged caste. But in practice such a society could not long remain stable. For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty would become literate and would learn to think for themselves; and when once they had done this, they would sooner or later realize that the privileged minority had no function, and they would sweep it away.

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