It is, without question, the most organic, intense and passionate artform that exists, especially when you consider that the average band consists of four or five individuals that somehow have to find common ground to create one fully realized piece of expression in the form of song. On top of that, the translation of song in a live atmosphere literally changes every set, every night.

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". I don’t believe in the “punks”… I just believe in punk itself."

You’ll go to see a flavor-of-the-week hip-hop artist with nothing to say that has gone multi-platinum, pay $40 for admission, and consider this awesome in some sort of fucked up ironic way because it gives you something to tell your friends so that they think you’re crazy or funny.

- Ryan McKenney of Trap Them

“What if the way we perceive the problem is actually part of the problem?”
-Slavoj ZIzek

Commie hating capitalist: Waiting for superman [is a good documentary] if you can tolerate any non commie propaganda...but really all documenteries are one sided propaganda pieces meant to appeal to emotions and weepiness
Me: Opposition to emotions, spoken like a real Rand fand.
Commie hate filled objectivist: Almost all decisions based on emotion end badly.
Me: lol
Commie loathing conservative: Example hemmingway/thompson/cobain​ decisions to orally ingest lead, and plaths decision to easy bake her mellon
Me: I wouldnt doubt that you, especially being a reader of rand, must side with the ''be strong and push through or get the fuck out of life'' group of people who refuse to sympathize for the weak. so i'm quite sure you wouod be being more consistent in with all your opinions if you just said they're better off dead, which would mean their suicides were not ''bad'' ( a subjectively ascribes value based on emotions and motivation that support living) as you have said now, but quite just in fact. if you truly believe they were ''bad'' then you are of course implying that living through suffering would be a better decision, which means you believed they should continue offering themselves and their talents to the world -- forced altruism, is it not? -- or you would believe that they should create their own success and happiness in a system/life that they truly despised. not at lot og sense has been made, in short.

Capitalism is the middle ground between fascism and libertarianism.


We must see people simply as people. an enemy is simply whom reconciliation with is impossible or too taxing. we have a lot less enemies than we think.


government propaganda = bad. advertising that reduces autonomy in consumers = perfectly fine


The most selfish people are the ones who argue that everyone is selfish. they've already forgiven themselves for being immoral and apathetic.

Split humanity into owners and workers, and you will quickly see how very weak the owners are.

Unless you're living on the shore, the only nice view you'll have is of our profusely corporate culture


Everything is a waste of money when you're broke.

White privilege: optimist as logic, not fear.

To be jaded in this redundant society is to be consistently observant.

this society slaughters the souls of young men and forces all of their anger to be withheld and forced upon its own ostensibly perceived creator; instead of rightfully attacking the system that produces this repression, they attack the most easiest of foes: women, friends, relatives, or they resolve to game and rituals to express their angst.

Isaac Brock laid the roots that grew and became socialism; ''do you need a lot of what you got to survive?''

Surely the best we can do would yield better results.

Zizek
Century of self
Inside Job
Flight from death

“Life is long. All you kids out there living fast and dying young, you’re not going to die. You’re not that lucky, you’re just going to look like shit.”
— End Of A Year

“This instrumentalist impoverishment of struggle is not characteristic just of particular parties or currents (Stalinism, Trotskyism and so on): it is inherent in the idea that the goal of the movement is to conquer political power. The struggle is lost from the beginning, long before the victorious party or army conquers state power and ‘betrays’ its promises. It is lost once power itself seeps into the struggle, once the logic of power becomes the logic of the revolutionary process, once the negative of refusal is converted into the positive of power-building. And usually those involved do not see it: the initiates in power do not even see how far they have been drawn into the reasoning and habits of power. They do not see that if we revolt against capitalism, it is not because we want a different system of power, it is because we want a society in which power relations are dissolved. You cannot build a society of non-power relations by conquering power. Once the logic of power is adopted, the struggle against power is already lost.”
— John Holloway - Change the World Without Taking Power