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Brian Awehali
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Tipping the Sacred Cow: The Best of LiP: Informed Revolt, 1996-2007
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is on page 37 of 178 of No Local: "The assumption behind consumer activism is that we're limited to shopping to express our discontent... effectively saying the neoclassical economists are right: the economy runs on consumer preferences, not exploitation... if there's alienation and environmental misery, it's your fault for buying the wrong things. Yet consumers are also workers who must sell their labor power or lose their homes and livelihoods."
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| This seems like a book to re-read several times before it's truly absorbed. Deren's astonishingly passionate openness to difference, in people and belief systems, coupled with no small measure of ego, produced this fascinating (1953) ethnographic acc...more | |
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| Unlike everything else Murakami's done, and I admire him for this effort. The interviews of the Sarin Tokyo Gas Attack victims are moving, but also, after half a dozen, somewhat repetitive, even if some of the repetition emphasizes a certain Japanese...more | |
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Michel Gondry (director of "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind") produces an "animated documentary" with Noam Chomsky titled "Is the Man Who is Tall Happy?" (trailer now available)
"Michel Gondry (director of "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind") produces an "animated documentary" with Noam Chomsky titled "Is the Man Who is Tall Happy?" (trailer now available)http://www.firstshowing.net/2013/watch-first-trailer-for-michel-..."
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| One of those books that just leaked into everything. Without this book, it's amazing how many subsequent things in literature and film you don't get. Like Heath Ledger's performance as The Joker, which he said in interviews was based very much on the...more | |
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“Individuals are prey to institutions in modern mass societies... Individuals can struggle mightily against institutionalized conditions, but without changing the institutions themselves, those efforts will be largely for naught, since people
tire, lose focus, forget, and, eventually, give up their ghosts, while institutions share no such limitations.”
― Brian Awehali
tire, lose focus, forget, and, eventually, give up their ghosts, while institutions share no such limitations.”
― Brian Awehali
“I don't believe vegans (or vegetarians) who still get their (packaged, preservative/chemical-ridden) food from industrial food system have any righteous ground to stand on, nor do I think a deep look at the sentient life of plants or the true environmental impact of agriculture permits them any comfortable distance from cruelty. Everything in this world eats something else to survive, and that something else, whether running on blood or chlorophyll, would always rather continue to live rather than become sustenance for another. No animal wants to be penned up and milked, or caged and harvested, and you've never seen plants growing in regimented lines of their own accord.”
― Brian Awehali
― Brian Awehali
“I'd like to issue a call to realism for those of us in so-called developed industrial nations, who indulge in great horror at the gradual collapse of our own pathologically unsustainable mode of existence while ignoring the reality of the majority of this planet’s residents, who do not in fact share the same dread or anxiety about losing what most of them, frankly, never had to squander in the first place.”
― Brian Awehali
― Brian Awehali
“People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does.”
― Michel Foucault, Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
― Michel Foucault, Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
“Individuals are prey to institutions in modern mass societies... Individuals can struggle mightily against institutionalized conditions, but without changing the institutions themselves, those efforts will be largely for naught, since people
tire, lose focus, forget, and, eventually, give up their ghosts, while institutions share no such limitations.”
― Brian Awehali
tire, lose focus, forget, and, eventually, give up their ghosts, while institutions share no such limitations.”
― Brian Awehali
“The thing about people who are truly and malignantly crazy: their real genius is for making the people around them think they themselves are crazy. In military science this is called Psy-Ops, for your info.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
“I don't believe vegans (or vegetarians) who still get their (packaged, preservative/chemical-ridden) food from industrial food system have any righteous ground to stand on, nor do I think a deep look at the sentient life of plants or the true environmental impact of agriculture permits them any comfortable distance from cruelty. Everything in this world eats something else to survive, and that something else, whether running on blood or chlorophyll, would always rather continue to live rather than become sustenance for another. No animal wants to be penned up and milked, or caged and harvested, and you've never seen plants growing in regimented lines of their own accord.”
― Brian Awehali
― Brian Awehali
“I'd like to issue a call to realism for those of us in so-called developed industrial nations, who indulge in great horror at the gradual collapse of our own pathologically unsustainable mode of existence while ignoring the reality of the majority of this planet’s residents, who do not in fact share the same dread or anxiety about losing what most of them, frankly, never had to squander in the first place.”
― Brian Awehali
― Brian Awehali
