“ War Is the Health of the State
Randolph Bourne
The Open Coloring
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Constance
It is this budding of something mysterious. Every day I ride home from 8 hours that felt like this really stale representation of reality. Hierarchy oozes from those walls in ways that disempower every hope I had for something better. The most debilitating element of it all is the confusion. Confused on “what to do” or “how to make it happen”. I wonder how much of what I’m feeling now teeters on the edge of diving into depression. I like that idea that depression isn’t really a “disorder” in some cases, but rather it is the refusal to opt out. One of those hard wired functions that defines some part of the human spirit. Something is wrong and we can feel it. What about this instead: sustaining ourselves through community and collective living with others to reclaim ourselves while simultaneously deconstructing the state through active daily resistance and avoiding the dangers of degenerating into social milieus. This leap from routine wage slavery is scary but at the same time ridiculous because it is a leap into something that is so beautiful and so alive.
“I’m not saying that television is vulgar and dumb because the people who compose the Audience are vulgar and dumb. Television is the way it is simply because people tend to be extremely similar in their vulgar and prurient and dumb interests and wildly different in their refined and aesthetic and noble interests.”
David Foster Wallace
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Central to radical sustainability is the concept of autonomous development. This form of developmet designs systems that give control over basic resources to the people using them. This increases community self-reliance and aids in resistance to resource monopolies. Design criteria include: 1) affordability 2) use of salvaged and/or locally abundant materials 3) simplicity 4) user servicibility 5) ease of replication and 6) decentralization.
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Mysterious! Mysterious! They become soundless.
Subtle! Subtle! They become formless.
10/10/10 - some friends and I organized a critical mass in the name of sustainability and a healthier planet. 250+ ppl - not all pictured.
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Baghdad
Photograph by Moises Saman/Panos PicturesLife Goes On: Saman captured this indelible image of man and war, coexisting, during a walk through Baghdad’s impoverished and violent al-Waziriya neighborhood. The smoldering remains of U.S. military Humvees that had been attacked by insurgents threw up dark clouds against the sky. And then a man in a clean suit ambled by carrying a briefcase. “This guy walked past, and I thought it was a real scene of how life just goes on in Baghdad,” he says. “Even in war zones, people have to manage their daily lives.”
California’s Humboldt Redwoods State Park
“Among the tallest and longest-lived trees on Earth, redwoods depend on summertime’s moisture-rich fog to replenish their water reserves. But climate change may be reducing this crucial fog cover. Though still poorly understood, climate change may be contributing to a decline in a high-pressure climatic system that usually “pinches itself” against the coast, creating fog.”
