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"I’ve grown up in the Himalayas — there’s no cash economy there. People are wealthy at zero dollars a..."

Sat, 18 May 2013 22:41:54 -0700

“I’ve grown up in the Himalayas — there’s no cash economy there. People are wealthy at zero dollars a day.
The point is that you need to have a clean stream. If your forest is intact and your stream is flowing and your knowledge is with you, and you can grow your food and you recognize the herbs that can cure you and you have mutuality of labor exchange, so that you come and work on my farm, and I come and work at your farm, why on earth would you need either dollars or rupees? On the other hand, if the water is commodified, if our seeds are commodified, if our medicine is monopolized, if there are no jobs. If the entire system is meant to merely be a source of profits for a handful of corporations, actually, you just have do your arithmetic, life becomes too expensive to buy. You can’t buy life. And now that they are trying to commoditize the very basis of life and own it and sell it back to us, basically the consequence is disposable people. Because for most people, then, life becomes unaffordable in any case, a life of that kind, even for those those who can afford it, is not life anymore.”

- Vandana Shiva (via la-hija-del-quinto-sol)

no cash economy…

the-ravenclaw-lannister: sarlacc: I….I can’t. On the list of...

Fri, 17 May 2013 20:48:05 -0700

the-ravenclaw-lannister:

sarlacc:

I….I can’t.

On the list of photos I thought I’d never see…This one is near the top.

mofo!

Peaking.

Sun, 12 May 2013 23:21:40 -0700

Peaking.

We have always had a weakness for Bjork’s backup...

Sun, 12 May 2013 11:23:49 -0700

We have always had a weakness for Bjork’s backup boys…

paulspecht: www.paulspecht.tumblr.com Quality never goes out...

Sun, 12 May 2013 11:22:34 -0700

paulspecht:

www.paulspecht.tumblr.com

Quality never goes out of style.

Photo

Sat, 11 May 2013 14:31:30 -0700

Mont Campbell of Egg interviewed for BBC Prog Rock Britannia -...

Thu, 09 May 2013 19:54:00 -0700

Mont Campbell of Egg interviewed for

BBC Prog Rock Britannia - An Observation in Three Movements

PS. I think this is going to be my next look.

Great documentary on prog rock

Thu, 09 May 2013 19:51:54 -0700

Great documentary on prog rock

nickelsonwooster: Space. drool

Sat, 04 May 2013 20:00:33 -0700

nickelsonwooster:

Space.

drool

ultragraphique: Another sketch I did a while back for Leo’s...

Sat, 04 May 2013 19:57:51 -0700

ultragraphique:

Another sketch I did a while back for Leo’s zine.

Quality never goes out of style.

Sat, 04 May 2013 19:40:42 -0700

Quality never goes out of style.

Why does my brain register this as cute?

Thu, 02 May 2013 23:18:56 -0700

Why does my brain register this as cute?

The Circular Ruins Jorge Luis Borges

Wed, 01 May 2013 21:21:09 -0700

The Circular Ruins Jorge Luis Borges:

pissingonmyfeet:

One of the first stories I read by Jorge Luis Borges.

An experienced wizard retreats from the world to a location that possesses strong mystical powers: the circular ruins. There, the wizard has but one goal: to make another human beings from his own dreams. Sleeping and dreaming longer and longer each day, the magician dreams of his young man becoming educated, and becoming wiser. After time, though, the wizard can no longer find sleep, and he deems his first attempt an inevitable failure. After many sleepless nights, the wizard dreams of a heart; vaguely at first, but more and more clearly each night. Years pass and the wizard creates the boy piece by piece, in agonizing detail. The wizard calls upon the god Fire to bring his creation to life. Fire agrees, as long as the wizard accustoms his creation to the real world, and that only Fire and the wizard will be able to tell the creation from a real human. Before deciding to bring the young man into the world, the magician decides to abandon his hopes, and to sacrifice his life. As he ultimately walks into the flaming house of Fire, the wizards notices that his skin does not burn. “With relief, with humiliation, with terror, he understood that he too was a mere appearance, dreamt by another.”