August 2012
100 posts
July 2012
61 posts
Pop music too loud and all sounds the same:... →
scipsy:
Comforting news for anyone over the age of 35, scientists have worked out that modern pop music really is louder and does all sound the same.
Aehm…
“Everybody’s bad and everybody’s tough
But how many people are intelligent...”
– KRS-ONE (via jennloveshiphop)
“You swallowed everything, like distance. Like the sea, like time. In you...”
– Pablo Neruda (via recycled-words)
“Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn. My god, do you learn.”
– C. S. Lewis (via pavorst)
“I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the...”
– Kurt Vonnegut (via neuewave)
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If I know what love is, it is because of you. ”
– Herman Hesse (via exoticfingerprints)
Will McAvoy: Why is America the greatest country...
Debate Moderator: ... What makes America the greatest country in the world?
Will: It’s NOT the greatest country in the world, Professor. That’s my answer.
Debate Moderator: You’re saying
Will: Yes.
...
Will: (to Lewis) And with a straight face, you’re gonna sit there and tell students that America is so star-spangled awesome that we’re the only ones in the world who have freedom? Canada has freedom. Japan has freedom. The U.K. France. Italy. Germany. Spain. Australia. BELGIUM has freedom. (laughs) Two hundred and seven sovereign states in the world, like, a hundred and eighty of them have freedom.
Debate Moderator: All right
Will: And you, Sorority Girl, just in case you accidentally wander into a voting booth one day, there’s some things you should know. One of them is there’s absolutely no evidence to support the statement that we’re the greatest country in the world. We’re seventh in literacy. Twenty-seventh in math. Twenty-second in science. Forty-ninth in life expectancy. A hundred and seventy-eighth in infant mortality. Third in median household income. Number four in labor force and number four in exports. We lead the world in only three categories: Number of incarcerated citizens per capita, number of adults who believe angels are real, and defense spending, where we spend more than the next twenty-six countries combined, twenty-five of whom are allies.
Now none of this is the fault of a twenty-year-old college student, but you nonetheless are without a doubt a member of the worst, period, generation, period, ever, period. So when you ask what makes us the greatest country in the world, I dunno what the fuck you’re talkin’ about. Yosemite?
Will: Sure used to be. We stood up for what was right. We fought for moral reasons. We passed laws, struck down laws, for moral reasons. We waged wars on poverty, not poor people. We sacrificed. We cared about our neighbors. We put our money where our mouths were. And we never beat our chest.
We built great big things, made ungodly technological advances, explored the universe, cured diseases, and we cultivated the world’s greatest artists and the world’s greatest economy. [pause] We reached for the stars. Acted like men.
We aspired to intelligence. We didn’t belittle it—it didn’t make us feel inferior.
We didn’t identify ourselves by who we voted for in the last election, and we didn’t, oh, we didn’t scare so easy. Ha. We were able to be all these things and do all these things because we were informed. By great men. Men who were revered. First step in solving any problem is recognizing there is one. America is not the greatest country in the world anymore.
Oldest Art in the World
wtfarthistory:
Panel of Hands, hand stencils dated as 37,300 years old, disk dated at least 40,600 years old. El Castillo, Spain (Photo: Pedro Saura)
Nawarla Gabarnmang rock shelter, created 28,000 years ago. Northern Territory, Australia
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