I realised my most vivid and interesting dreams have sensory elements from things I’ve been deeply involved in.
I hear hypnagogic music - music in my head as I fall asleep, and I used to play a Playstation game called Music2000. Labouring over listening to the fine details of hundreds of samples, finding the perfect spot for them, thinking about composition and contrast.
I used to use a Duke3D editor a lot, spending many hours at a time absorbed in constructing an environment, figuring out how to make physical spaces look right - scary, foreboding, ethereal, sci-fi, etc. I’ve made dreamscapes using the editor, diving into my memories, adding every detail I could. Since then the visuals of my dreams have been more vivid, and sometimes I can see them being constructed, and how they’re being constructed - there’s a layering of shapes, mimicking fractal patterns in landscapes, in plants… and sometimes before waking up, I’ll be flying over an ocean or islands, as though the fractals of landscape are less taxing than the irregularity of buildings or a city.
Isn’t it interesting how police often protect pedophiles while prisoners kill pedophiles?
Justice and power are interesting things.
Step 1: Look at the Price.
Step 2: Look in the Trash
because there can be a store like this full of food and people on the same block starving because they don’t have enough pieces of paper to trade for it.
because the people who planted, maintained, harvested, and inspected all that produce are compensated barely enough to sustain themselves
because in order to drive down the prices of bananas, the us government and american fruit corporations destroyed the democratically elected leftist governments of numerous central american countries, placing murderous despots at the head of these “banana republics”.
because the scars of these crimes against humanity still haunt millions to this day.
I work at a grocery store and we regularly throw food in the trash and then say we donated it so that our manager can tell corporate that we donated more food than we actually did
Capitalism benefits owners, not workers. Criticism of capitalism is not automatic support for communism.
(Source: redbloodedamerica)
(Reblogged from stimman3000)
I’ve thought of myself as a lazy person for a long time, but that somehow doesn’t mesh with having done 2 concurrent degrees, a postgrad course, and now doing 3 student placements. So maybe me seeing myself as lazy is more of a reflection of my perfectionism making me feel like I’m wasting my potential.
Labor and Liberal governments’ treatment of refugees renders both parties illegitimate and incapable of governing.
People who regard the homeless with disgust probably deserve to be systematically murdered.
Gender identity is a fiction we create. The psyche does not have a gender. Gender identity is socialised and/or performed to make sense of our reality, but it does not reflect a deep subjective fact - unless you consider created fictions to be deep subjective facts.
Capitalism has failed and Marx was right about everything in the Communist Manifesto. If you disagree, it’s because you haven’t fucking read it.
‘Ecoterrorism’ is a right-wing propaganda term. Those who take direct action against corporations and corporate property who/which damaged the environment are not seeking to spread fear, but to reduce suffering and increase the common wealth of humanity and lengthen our life span as a species.
Monsanto is a profoundly evil company due to their business practices, not due to genetic modification being evil or unhealthy. That argument distracts from Monsanto’s business practices.