December 2011
10 Ways to Love Others →
prehistoricflower:
Some guidelines for loving:
1. Tell them about their brilliance. They likely can’t see it and they don’t know its immensity, but you can see it, and you can illuminate it for them.
2. Be authentic, and give others the gift of the real you and a real relationship. Ask your real questions. Share your real beliefs. Go for your real dreams. Tell your truth.
3. Don’t confuse...
Notes from Two Scientific Psychologists: How... →
If someone asked you to describe the psychological aspects of personhood, what would you say? Chances are, you’d describe things like thought, memory, problem-solving, reasoning, maybe emotion. In other words, you probably list the major headings of a cognitive psychology text-book. In cognitive psychology, we seem to take it for granted that these are, objectively, the primary components of...
“Richard Heinberg’s book on the end of the oil age is called ‘The Party’s Over:...”
– Derrick Jensen, Dreams (via cultureofresistance)
“Black People in America have a much greater inner power than they realize, but...”
– Na’im Akbar (via cultureofresistance)
Monsanto’s Roundup Ready Crops Leading to Mental... →
cultureofresistance:
If we were honestly serious about defending ourselves, as the December record-breaking sales of firearms might suggest, why do we tolerate wealthy criminals like Monsanto poisoning our air, water, and food? Why can those that run Syngenta, Dupont, Bayer, etc., draw a single safe breath? Is it because we’re just privileged enough to ignore the fact our lives and the lives of...
The wealth of Congress has TRIPLED in 25 years and... →
underthemountainbunker:
Let the GOP / Teaparty continue to argue that federal workers are the enemy — it’s complete fiction but it’s essential to the Republican Strategy. Here are some facts you’ll never see reported on Fox “News”:
The wealth of members of Congress has TRIPLED in 25 years while the average U.S. family has suffered a DROP in their worth
The wealth gap between those governing...
Corporate Education Reform Has Turned Kids into... →
Compared to modern school kids, I was a downright worthless student.
I don’t mean worthless as a pejorative. (My father would have used a more colorful term to characterize my scholarly pursuits.) But worthless as a commodity. Us kids at Montrose Elementary School weren’t making anyone rich. Not like today’s pupils, particularly those in Florida, who’ve become valuable cogs in a burgeoning...
“I have heard people suggest that because humans are natural that everything...”
– Derrick Jensen (via therainyresistance)
after thinking about it for a while, i think i know what it is i have to disagree with about this quote
it implies that environmental change is unnatural
yes humans came from a balanced state of the “natural” world, but the same world 64 million years ago...
Culture Of Resistance: What does past climate... →
cultureofresistance:
A common skeptic argument is that climate has changed naturally in the past, long before SUVs and coal-fired power plants, so therefore humans cannot be causing global warming now. Interestingly, the peer-reviewed research into past climate change comes to the opposite conclusion. To understand…
“All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche (via cultureofresistance)
“Have you ever heard the wonderful silence just before the dawn? Or the quiet and...”
– Norton Juster (via cultureofresistance)
What is Open Source Ecology? →
forrestonfire:
Open Source Ecology is a network of farmers, engineers, and supporters that for the last four years has been creating the Global Village Construction Set – an open source, low-cost, high performance technological platform that allows for the easy, DIY (Do It Yourself) fabrication of the 50 different Industrial Machines that it takes to build a sustainable civilization with modern...
“Kill your own citizens, you’re a dictator. Kill other countries citizens and...”
– Akala (via cultureofresistance)
“A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied...”
– Sigmund Freud (via cultureofresistance)
You Can't Kill a Planet and Live on It, Too →
cultureofresistance:
“One of the reasons there aren’t more people working to take down the system that’s killing the planet is because their lives depend on the system,” author and environmental activist Derrick Jensen told me from his home in California when I interviewed him on the phone recently. “If your experience is that your food comes from the grocery store and your water comes from the...
“I need to be clear about something else. Humans are not killing the planet....”
– Derrick Jensen and Aric McBay, What We Leave Behind (via cultureofresistance)
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For while knowledge defines all we...”
– Albert Einstein (via cultureofresistance)
“If we were only disrupting our own genetic structure and hindering our own...”
– Derrick Jensen and Aric McBay, What We Leave Behind (via cultureofresistance)
“If I perceive chickens as my private property, it makes sense that I would build...”
– Derrick Jensen, A Language Older Than Words (via cultureofresistance)
“There is hope in men,
not in society, not in systems,
not in organized...”
– Jiddu Krishnamurti (via cultureofresistance)
50 Ways to Prepare for Revolution by Stephanie... →
cultureofresistance:
The people of the United States are currently unprepared to seize a revolutionary moment. We must fix that.
How can we raise our levels of revolutionary consciousness, organization and struggle?
Raise consciousness
1) Raise consciousness with the purpose of building organization and raising the level of struggle.
2) Investigate before forming opinions. Research how the...
World banks brace for euro collapse →
the-zeitgeist-movement:
Banks around the world are preparing for the possible collapse of the euro as fears of the European debt crisis increase. Several banks are even installing systems capable of coping with trading in old European currencies. Meanwhile finance firms, corporations, and different governments have also turned to plans that aim at preparing them for harsh times. Regulators...
“With the establishment of a relationship of oppression, violence has already...”
– Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
(via cultureofresistance)
“Do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am — a reluctant enthusiast… a part-time...”
– Edward Abbey
American environmentalist, anarchist, writer.