Everything felt better when we were kids because it WAS, the quality of processed foods, clothing, shoes, has drastically decreased in the last couple decades. Companies putting profit at the cost of quality/safety of consumers is making people ill, and destroying experiences. I distinctly remember fast food tasting better, because companies switched to cheaper ingredients while raising prices. We are paying more for less constantly, in virtually every area of life.
There is such a beautiful harmony when you’re able to create space for yourself in your own life. Somehow the universe yields when you do. Allowing yourself to accept the things that happen are always going to lead into infinite possibilities. You can take it slowly, there is no rush, no race, you can live many lives in your lifetime, it’s all in your head. Every day is a new day.
— Mahmoud Darwish
Even though we all act as if capitalism is some kind of behemoth towering over us, it’s really just something we produce. Every morning we wake up and re-create capitalism. If one morning we woke up and all decided to create something else, then there wouldn’t be capitalism anymore. There would be something else.
i think at the end of every war they should dump a cooler full of blood on the president
I think every week the US is at war the president should have to kill a random aide with a hatchet.
"There is a young man, probably a Navy officer, who accompanies the President. This young man has a black attaché case which contains the codes that are needed to fire nuclear weapons. I could see the President at a staff meeting considering nuclear war as an abstract question. He might conclude: 'On SIOP Plan One, the decision is affirmative, Communicate the Alpha line XYZ.' Such jargon holds what is involved at a distance.
My suggestion was quite simple: Put that needed code number in a little capsule, and then implant that capsule right next to the heart of a volunteer. The volunteer would carry with him a big, heavy butcher knife as he accompanied the President. If ever the President wanted to fire nuclear weapons, the only way he could do so would be for him first, with his own hands, to kill one human being. The President says, 'George, I'm sorry but tens of millions must die.' He has to look at someone and realize what death is—what an innocent death is. Blood on the White House carpet. It's reality brought home.
When I suggested this to friends in the Pentagon they said, 'My God, that's terrible. Having to kill someone would distort the President's judgment. He might never push the button.'"
--Roger Fisher, director of the Harvard Negotiation Project, 1981
holy fucking shit
It's crazy how many women wilfully restrict their lives and potential remaining in their comfort zones through romantic partnerships with dull, self involved men who hardly add value to their lives.
Gambiarra
A Brazilian practice that embodies the concept of resourceful improvisation, emphasizing practical and creative solutions over aesthetics and utilizing whatever is available to solve everyday problems. It's the art of making do with what's at hand.
the art of making do with what's at hand
Analysis of data from dozens of foraging societies around the world shows that women hunt in at least 79% of these societies, opposing the widespread belief that men exclusively hunt and women exclusively gather. Abigail Anderson of Seattle Pacific University, US, and colleagues presented these findings in the open-access journal PLOS ONE on June 28, 2023. A common belief holds that, among foraging populations, men have typically hunted animals while women gathered plant products for food. However, mounting archaeological evidence from across human history and prehistory is challenging this paradigm; for instance, women in many societies have been found buried alongside big-game hunting tools. Some researchers have suggested that women's role as hunters was confined to the past, with more recent foraging societies following the paradigm of men as hunters and women as gatherers. To investigate that possibility, Anderson and colleagues analyzed data from the past 100 years on 63 foraging societies around the world, including societies in North and South America, Africa, Australia, Asia, and the Oceanic region. They found that women hunt in 79% of the analyzed societies, regardless of their status as mothers. More than 70% of female hunting appears to be intentional—as opposed to opportunistic killing of animals encountered while performing other activities, and intentional hunting by women appears to target game of all sizes, most often large game. The analysis also revealed that women are actively involved in teaching hunting practices and that they often employ a greater variety of weapon choice and hunting strategies than men. These findings suggest that, in many foraging societies, women are skilled hunters and play an instrumental role in the practice, adding to the evidence opposing long-held perceptions about gender roles in foraging societies. The authors note that these stereotypes have influenced previous archaeological studies, with, for instance, some researchers reluctant to interpret objects buried with women as hunting tools. They call for reevaluation of such evidence and caution against misapplying the idea of men as hunters and women as gatherers in future research. The authors add, "Evidence from around the world shows that women participate in subsistence hunting in the majority of cultures."
Arcturus, Saturn & Venus
there is no justice in this world for girls who don’t want to get up but have to
Reading through the reddit sub r/regretfulparents is so gut wrenching and eye opening. Being a woman means your true intuitive feelings about being averse to having children are constantly being ridiculed and invalidated. You have to go through childhood and adulthood with the same condescending rhetoric being pushed at you. You wont really know until you’re older. You will change your mind. All these opinions being presented as absolute truths. It wholly contributes to so many women believing and convincing themselves they have no choice, it’s inevitable. If women were to give up the notion that they are some vessels of infinite strength and selflessness, not divine beings capable of withstanding suffering beyond measure, we could reach the place where so many don’t lose their lives and identity to birth new life. It is heart breaking for a child to fully realize just how much of her own self a mother loses, especially when partnered with an unloving, selfish partner. How much your life is not yours anymore, if you truly need to sacrifice so much because you didn’t fully understand what being a parent costs.
Virginia Woolf, from To the Lighthouse Susan Sontag, from Reborn: Early Diaries 1947-1963
