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...No matter how sophisticated we humans appear to be with our fancy shoes and Nintendo Wiis and what not, our brains are still cursed with a paleomammalian limbic system which the modern-iPad-owning part of us can’t control. Our fear responses are governed by twin almond-shaped clusters of nuclei known as the amygdalae, sort of primitive reactionary mind-nuts beyond the reach of human intellect… The point of the amygdalae is protection. You’re supposed to be stimulated when confronted by a loud noise or a sudden movement, because, well, it could be a lion leaping in to attack you. That’s why it’s almost impossible to ignore anything that seems like a threat – be it a lion or a scary newsreader … The amygdalae are also thought to be closely associated with memory. So if you have an unpleasant experience and your amygdalae are stimulated, an association quickly forms in your head. That’s why the man uses scare tactics to mould your behavior from an early age. - Charlie Brooker
...and then I suddenly felt like I was looking at these thoughts from another perspective and I wondered who is it that's aware that I'm thinking and suddenly I was thrown into this expansive, amazing feeling of freedom from myself, from my problems. I saw that I was bigger than what I do, I was bigger than my body, I was every and everyone. I was no longer a fragment the universe, I was the universe. -Jim Carrey
And easy come and easy go Well yeah I'm sure I told you so Well they just want you for your dough Man I'm sure I told you so And with your dead-end job That's been eating away your life You feel a little inside The trouble and strife And now you spend your evenings Searching for another life And yeah I think mate I think you've got them in your sights 'Easy Easy' – King Krule
Chris Jordan Intolerable Beauty: Portraits of American Mass Consumption (2003 - 2005)
“Until they became conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.� 1984 George Orwell
“There is nothing except the eternal now.� - Alan Watts Marina Abramovic
Do you know the warm progress Under the stars? Do you know we exist? Have you forgotten the keys To the kingdom Have you been born yet & are you alive? - Jim Morrison & the doors 'American Prayer'
'So the girl picks a rose; pricks her finger on the thorn; bleeds; screams; falls.' The Snow Child- Angela Carter
9 o'clock in the morning, three hours late from the dawn My dreams swear they were calling, the night is dead let us mourn Two birds out my window, they never talk of the past Always thought for the future, and if this rain's gonna last - Olympic Ayres 'Sunshine'
Unapologetic means Not acknowledging Or expressing regret And I think thats My favourite word Because regret keeps you from moving forward - I'm right here and That's all I can control -Isabella Mente
Caitlin Shearer
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ABUSE OF POWER COMES AS NO SURPRISE
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. -Jiddu Krishnamurti
She blazed about how 'cultural language is an operating system, a simple interface rendered feeble and listless when tested with Divinity or a true understanding of the human condition I never did understand The duality of art and reality Living life and treating it as such There's a certain disconnect to touch that cajoles at the artist with comfort and abandon Between the spires and the rolling roofs of the white city that orange English light cast only one, singular shadow For you are not beside but within me. 'Loving Someone' – The 1975
(MY CURRENT SITUATION IS NOT MY FINAL DESTINATION)
Jenny Holzer
“The world is like a ride in an amusement park, and when you choose to go on it you think it's real because that's how powerful our minds are. The ride goes up and down, around and around, it has thrills and chills, and it's very brightly colored, and it's very loud, and it's fun for a while. Many people have been on the ride a long time, and they begin to wonder, "Hey, is this real, or is this just a ride?" And other people have remembered, and they come back to us and say, "Hey, don't worry; don't be afraid, ever, because this is just a ride." And we … kill those people. "Shut him up! I've got a lot invested in this ride, shut him up! Look at my furrows of worry, look at my big bank account, and my family. This has to be real." It's just a ride. But we always kill the good guys who try and tell us that, you ever notice that? And let the demons run amok … But it doesn't matter, because it's just a ride. And we can change it any time we want. It's only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings of money. Just a simple choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one. Here's what we can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride. Take all that money we spend on weapons and defenses each year and instead spend it feeding and clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would pay for many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, forever, in peace.” ― Bill Hicks