November 2011
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What would you do if you weren't afraid?
“Everyone is looking for Validation”
– Oprah
“To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others....”
– Thich Nhat Hanh (via trulyquotable)
What I’ve been trying to preach
"The Genius" (Waking Life)
All human behavior and activity…
is not essentially any different from animal behavior.
The most advanced technologies and craftsmanship…
bring us, at best, up to the super-chimpanzee level.
Actually, the gap between,
say, Plato or Nietzsche and the average human…
is greater than the gap...
A systematic questioning of the idea of...
We’ll cut the vocal chords of every empowered speaker.
We’ll yank the social symbols through the looking glass. We’ll devalue society’s currency.
To confront the familiar.
Society is a fraud so complete and venal…
that it demands to be destroyed beyond the power of memory to recall its existence.
...
Sexual Abuse Arrest At Occupy Wall Street
A 26-year-old named Tonye Iketubosin has been arrested and charged with sexual abuse of an 18-year-old girl and a 17-year-old girl. The 18-year-old reported said Iketubosin raped her inside a tent at Occupy Wall Street, where he is volunteering at the protest as a kitchen worker, early Sunday morning. That girl had an argument with her tent-mate in the middle of the night on Saturday...
