We have been to the moon, we have charted the depths of the ocean and the heart of the atom, but we have a fear of looking inward to ourselves because we sense that is where all the contradictions flow together.
Terence McKenna (via energiesoftheuniverse)
We sure as hell have not charted the depths of the ocean! Liar.
It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.
Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires
The lie of virginity - the idea that such a thing even exists - is ensuring that young women’s perception of themselves is inextricable from their bodies, and that their ability to be moral actors is absolutely dependent on their sexuality.
We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.
Do you want me to say, “It was a great plan, mwahahaha!” before I fly off on a magic carpet? I was born and raised in this country and was just as shocked as everyone else to learn there were people on this earth so vile as to commit such a horrific attack - or to even think about doing it. But I didn’t do it. Neither did 99.999999999 percent of the roughly 1.5 billion people in the world who also call themselves Muslims. So why should I or any other Muslim apologize for what happened? Nickleback is planning on releasing another album. Should I ask white people to apologize for that?
As a Muslim, I’m sick of people asking me how I feel about 9/11. What do you want me to say, seriously?
The life of a single human being is worth a million times more than all the property of the richest man on earth.
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
(via philphys)
Men of ancient and medieval times believed, firmly believed, that men are not equal, that the only true men are Persians, or Greeks, or Romans, or Franks. But we cannot believe that now. And people who sacrifice themselves for the principles of aristocracy and of patriotism to duty, don’t believe and can’t believe what they assert.
The truth is, obedience and respect should not be granted automatically. They should be earned. They should be based on the parents’ or the authority figure’s performance. Some parents deserve respect. Most of them don’t. Period.
