A213 300-430

Check psutracy.org for details in october. 

Noam Chomsky - US/ Israeli Crimes Against Palestine

“I just have the tendency to join any anti-obama, liberal, amnesty, etc., because those are just my views and I like to read their posts and articles. Sorry if you got offended about me joining a facebook group”

This is a little piece of a conversation i had with a relative of mine. Now i understand it, i join some groups just to read their posts and comment, it’s fun and the internet allows me to do that. But i think it highlights a good point about activism, but more acutely, the whole tea party deal. The willingness to passionately oppose a single person or a set of ideologies on a whim, without any thinking or factual basis, or whatever, and then to accept that those are “political views” is exactly what, i think, will ruin our politcal culture. Now i would be naive to think it just started now, it has been present all through american history, but this is my time, and so i feel its burden strongly. 

The worst part is this is a respectable, smart guy, who i happen to think is pretty cool. Democracy has died, even in the best of people. It is up to us to bring it back.

What is the most lethal form of organized violence?

This is part two of the other post.

Out right disgusting. Tell me this isn’t totalitarian.

The phrase “free country” has become devoid of meaning. The idea of American democracy is empty, meaningless. We have, in our efforts to pursue the ‘american dream’, bought into dehumanizing ourselves, dissolving the bonds that had linked us to one another, and destroying democracy. In our attempts to become independent of our fellow humans we have become dependent on a system that has only taken us further from our desired liberty. The worst part is many of us have stopped caring. The last time i spoke to a few family members of mine, they proudly exclaimed that they don’t care about democracy, they don’t care about their voice being heard, they dont care about our shared values as Americans, as living inhabitants of one earth, being protected. While i have made no effort to talk to these people since then, as someone who has decided not to participate in democracy is someone who has become its ruin, i can see why. People aren’t being heard, and after years and years of indoctrination, they no longer have anything to say.

It is essential that we realize not only our connections to other people, but that we understand the how fundamental cooperation and community are to our existence.

These videos are just disgusting. Authroity makes me sick, and the and abuse of auhtorty is vulgar. There is no justification for the actiions taken by the various officers in the video.

We cannot tolerate this any longer.

The worst part is, these videos are a year and a half old-ish. Nothing has changed.