"Doing my own research" by trying to learn more about the world - science, philosophy, art, humanities, history, human behavior, etc., reading quality investigative reporting, interrogating my own biases and assumptions, questioning my epistemology.
Imagine the NYtimes, WaPo, PBS, NPR, all major networks being bought/regulated into RW autocratic control, and left online sites getting messed with under laws against treason. What does left organizing look like then?
The scientifically correct position is that there are no bad people, only bad actions created in the individual who must obey the universe. Transcending to accepting this is one of the hardest things for us to do.
Me, looking forward to a small vacation staying in a couple fancy hotels.
My wife: you realize you have an Eat the Rich sticker on your car?
Me: LET ME HAVE THIS
I will bang this drum forever: in THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE: THE GERMANS, 1933-45 Milton Mayer interviewed 10 ordinary Germans after WW2 to learn how fascism took hold. There was never a moment when everyone woke up:
if you’re waiting for everyone around you to wake up, you’ll wait forever. this is how the people grinding our bones to make their bread WANT you to be. paralyzed, alienated & purposeless
[Justice Roberts, swishing his champagne flute, thinking to himself] Look at this Leftist journalist thinking she's sly. Oh, I'll show her who's broad-minded...
Fugazi may have been the most important thing to happen in rock music in the past 50 years. Punk was one of those righteous social expressions that don't come along often enough, but that act like an icepick through permafrosted social veils, letting the living human viscera breathe.
Standing outside the man’s house, watching his silhouette furiously jacking off while a busker plays an accordion on a park bench beneath the moonlight.
then there was this dream I had in my teen years, was at the neighbor’s house & I climbed up on the kitchen table & did missionary to a large cheese bubble on a pizza
Someone in America needs to establish a combo seafood frying restaurant along the model of a British fish & chips shop (but incorporate spices into the seafood) and hood style liquor store.
I wanna grab some fried catfish & shrimp & fries with a 40oz malt liquor at the same place so bad 🙃
