I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin the shift from a “thing-oriented” society to a “person-oriented” society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.
Far beyond official Washington, we would seem to be witnessing a fraying of the bonds of empathy, decency, common purpose. It is becoming a country in which people more than disagree. They fail to see each other. They think in types about others, and assume the worst of types not their own.
This nation of tanned, toned, comatose vegetables is choosing to cash in its chips and spend them on the VIP Cabana at the pool, where they can be fed $10 soy-chai-mocha-lattes by legions of McVassals — instead of forging the path towards a better tomorrow.
An artificial appropriation of different styles from different eras, the hipster represents the end of Western civilization – a culture lost in the superficiality of its past and unable to create any new meaning. Not only is it unsustainable, it is suicidal. While previous youth movements have challenged the dysfunction and decadence of their elders, today we have the “hipster” – a youth subculture that mirrors the doomed shallowness of mainstream society.
Source: jerrybrito
Mr. Ford’s attack is ironic, because no public service puts democracy on display more than libraries.
Margaret Atwood’s inspiring defence of Toronto’s libraries
That this argument is happening at all saddens me greatly.
Source: The Globe and Mail
Fast Food founders & longevity
Ray Kroc (McDonald’s) at age 82
Jimmy Dean died at age 81
Taco Bell founder Glen Bell died at 86
Sonic founder Troy Smith died at 87
Hardee’s founder Wilber Hardee died at 89
Baskin-Robbins founder Irvine Robbins died at 90
Carl’s Jr. founder Carl Karcher died at 90
Frozen french fry mogul J.R. Simplot died at 99
Murray Handwerker, credited with making Nathan’s Famous Hot Dogs into a well-known national chain, died at 89Interesting.
More proof that karma is not a cosmic scorecard.
Source: jayparkinsonmd
I close my eyes and think of all the things I don’t want. And visualise them rolling by, vacuum cleaners, 3-D TVs, new phones and cars and hand bags, a neat house in the suburbs. I think of how unhappy these things wold make me and then I am free. If you don’t want these things they can never truly have you. Then I think of wood and I think of my bones as wood, something slow and put here a long time ago.
— Robert Montgomery (See the rest of his Billboard Series)
Source: sabbatical
A proud moment, indeed.
In the future this logo will be reduced to a single green dot on a white cup.
Source: Flickr / kevinsteele
The Man Behind Judgement Day
An in-depth piece from Killing the Buddha, including an interview with Harold Camping. Fascinating. I’ll leave it at that.
