At first, I thought the sling snapped back and blew her head off. But really, it’s just the watermelon coming back and blowing up in her face.
*Click through for the animation.*
50 Cent’s tweets translated into Oxford English.
iPod. iPod everywhere.
My MacBook’s battery level went from 100% to 92% in an instant.
What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other’s shoulders and kicking each other’s teeth in. It’s not a pleasant situation.
And yet, you can stand back and look at this planet and see that we have the money, the power, the medical understanding, the scientific know-how, the love and the community to produce a kind of human paradise. But we are led by the least among us - the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary. We are led by the least among us and we do not fight back against the dehumanizing values that are handed down as control icons.
This is something, culture is not your friend. Culture is for other people’s convenience and the convenience of various institutions, churches, companies, tax collection schemes, what have you. It is not your friend. It insults you. It disempowers you. It uses and abuses you. None of us are well treated by culture.
Yet we glorify the creative potential of the individual, the rights of the individual. We understand the felt-presence of experience is what is most important. But the culture is a perversion. It fetishizes objects, creates consumer mania, it preaches endless forms of false happiness, endless forms of false understanding in the form of squirrelly religions and silly cults. It invites people to diminish themselves and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines - meme processors of memes passed down from Madison Avenue and Hollywood…
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Yeah, I totally agree.
Damn, since when did this happen?
You must have something to say.
Ouch… We just barely got into contingency tables… However, I just started school last week.
I can’t, even…
a plate full of mozzarella sticks, all to myself. Yes.
I DID WELL ON MY FIRST STATS TEST, JUST USING THIS VID AS AN EXCUSE TO BRAG LAWL
Hahah, nice. I did well too, except it was more of a quiz but, still… Hopefully it stays pretty easy…
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