"It is not the consciousness of men that determines their social being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness." — Karl Marx: The Poverty of Philosophy (via fuckyeahphilosophy) (via lost-time)

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This is the reason I listen to music

Seeing them live on Saturday. I can’t wait!

"Anyone with eyes open knows that the gangsterism of Wall Street — financial institutions generally — has caused severe damage to the people of the United States (and the world). That has set in motion a vicious cycle that has concentrated immense wealth, and with it political power, in a tiny sector of the population, a fraction of 1 per cent, while the rest increasingly become what is sometimes called “a precariat” — seeking to survive in a precarious existence. They also carry out these ugly activities with almost complete impunity —not only too big to fail, but also too big to jail. The courageous and honourable protests underway in Wall Street should serve to bring this calamity to public attention, and to lead to dedicated efforts to overcome it and set the society on a more healthy course." — Noam Chomsky, message to Occupy Wall Street protestors

The unwavering support Americans have for their soldiers in reality serves as a detriment to their well-being. It only reinforces the agenda with which they are burdened. If Americans really cared about their troops they would help them open their eyes to the deceit they are fighting to uphold. Instead they rally behind them in their ignorance, dipping their toes to test the warmth before skipping gleefully across the sea of blood, their vindictive nature festering below in the depths, arising only, like a parasite, when in need of sustenance before descending once again into dormancy. They serve en masse as their own personal savior, creating a self-fulfilling destiny of which they seek, remaining ignorant to the process, and more ignorant still to its consequences.

"Some men look at Constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them, like the Ark of the Covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age well; I belonged to and labored with it. I am certainly not an advocate for for frequent and untried changes in laws and constitutions. I think moderate imperfections had better be borne with; because, when once known, we accommodate ourselves to them, and find practical means of correcting their ill effects. But I know also, that laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths disclosed, and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also, and keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy, as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors." — Thomas Jefferson

Woman with a Child in a Pantry by Pieter de Hooch

A mother and child are standing on a checkered, tiled floor. All the doors are wide open and we can see through to the cellar, the front part of the house and the other side of the street. In the front room there is a chair on a wooden platform. Sitting on a platform, a ‘soldertien’, one could get a good view of life outside without being bothered by the cold rising from the floor. Pieter de Hooch also painted other aspects of daily life. The woman has tucked her skirt in to stop it getting dirty and around her sleeves she is wearing ‘morsmouwen’. The woman is handing the child a German stoneware jug.

Love this coat

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