I always said there should be laws forbidding anyone to pay anyone else (barring disability or age constraints) to clean their own toilet. Iām serious, the act of confronting our own waste is a philosophical and spiritual journey of humility. This extends to what motivated the above, unclogging oneās shower drain. Forget about praying or contemplating nature. Smell and touch the rotting results of your own body, be confronted with what you are sending onto this world.
Hitchenista
- 11 Followers
- 17 Following
- 23 Posts
Never take refuge in the false security of consensus. -- English and Spanish spoken. š„
Only then they can come back to the world and climb on their fucking thrones and flash their alleged success, only when they have full awareness of the extent of they filth, outside the confines of manufactured comfort. āOnce you pass this humbling ordeal, you might see that most religions are only there to maintain a pretend cleanliness and purity that seeks to escape the miasma of existence. The real cleanliness can only come from a certain frugality and restraint combined with acceptance.
Imagine the likes of Oprah, Ashton Kushner, Lady Gaga, Tom Cruise, Trump, Putin, rolling up their sleeves of their expensive clothing and having to smell their own rotting hairs trapped in their pipelines, mixed with all the chemicals and dyes they pour into the ecosystem only so they can feel momentarily better about themselves.
Iām convinced we all have a moral blind spot: a topic or domain that we wilfully ignore, grant ourselves the right to look the other way because we decided we care enough already about everything else.
As a meat eater, I suppose my blind spot is animals rights. I have a plethora of thin-veiled excuses, easily pierced by the slightest consideration of animal suffering and the effects on the environment.
Whatās yours?
Scientist RebellionThe 70th anniv. of the German debt cancellation reminds us how debt relief fueled the country's post-war reconstruction. Nowadays, neo-colonial structures like the IMF & gvts unjustly hold on to the colonial debt of Global South countries. @DebtforClimate
---
RT @DebtforClimate
1/14 70th anniversary of #Germany's #DebtCancellation after #WWII! This laid the foundation for š©šŖās economic "miracle". Hereās why a debt cancellation for ā¦
https://twitter.com/DebtforClimate/status/1629940065982922752
---
RT @DebtforClimate
1/14 70th anniversary of #Germany's #DebtCancellation after #WWII! This laid the foundation for š©šŖās economic "miracle". Hereās why a debt cancellation for ā¦
https://twitter.com/DebtforClimate/status/1629940065982922752
Debt for Climate on Twitter
ā1/14 70th anniversary of #Germany's #DebtCancellation after #WWII! This laid the foundation for š©šŖās economic "miracle". Hereās why a debt cancellation for the Global South is a necessary precondition to enable a #JustTransition & #ClimateJustice! #DebtForClimate š§µšā
Mike Galsworthy š¦£59% of Brits think that Brexit is going badly...
And Leave voters lean the same way. As do Tories. In fact, only 12% of Brits think it's gone well.
Brexit is a failed project. With bells on.
Itās all very nice to provoke the Qatari regime for their homophobic stance; but itās hard to take this wealthy āprogressivismā seriously when they know naught of, or dare not to mention the Kafala, the modern-day slavery scheme that drags migrant workers to poverty, desperation and death in all Middle East, including Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Dubai, Lebanon, Jordan, and so on.
https://www.statecraft.co.in/article/the-middle-east-is-a-haven-for-modern-day-slavery-and-there-is-no-end-in-sight
https://www.statecraft.co.in/article/the-middle-east-is-a-haven-for-modern-day-slavery-and-there-is-no-end-in-sight
Paraphrasing or updating Benjamin H. Bratton, if Iām forgiven the affront,
Communism in theory is an egalitarian utopia. Actually existing communism meant ecological devastation, government spying, crappy cars and gulags.
Capitalism in theory is rocket ships, nanomedicine, smartphones. Actually existing capitalism means Walmart jobs, McMansions, people living under a bridge- plus ecological devastation, government and corporations spying, crappy public transportation and for-profit prisons.
Under the government's Brexit plans, thousands of laws and regulations are to be scrapped or rewritten by ministers without proper scrutiny...
So who is taking back control? Well, certainly not British voters or even our "sovereign" parliament.
Article --> https://eastangliabylines.co.uk/brexit-who-is-really-taking-back-control/
HeavenlyPossumI very recently learned that the term āboycottā comes from someoneās actual name: Charles Boycott. Boycott was an English land agent who tried, in 1880, to collect unpayable rents from Irish peasants on behalf of an English aristocrat landlord. When he failed to collect the rents, he tried evicting the tenants. The Irish Land League responded with a campaign to ignore Boycottās orders and isolate him socially and economically.
They not only ignored his eviction orders and threw manure at his process servers, but refused to deliver his mail or sell him food.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Boycott
It was pretty effectiveāthe British government eventually had to deploy a thousand soldiers (naturally, because the state works for the propertied class and none more than the 19th century British state) at a cost of some Ā£10,000 to harvest Ā£500 worth of crops. Boycott had to be evacuated by the soldiers, who even had to drive him out, as no locals would agree to drive his carriage out of the region.
Imagine being cancelled so hard that your name becomes permanently associated with getting cancelled.
