Modern Life is Rubbish

“To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage and kindness… The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.” ~ Howard Zinn.

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Welcome to the real world

There is something wrong with the world. Something seriously wrong. That "something" is us. And it stems from a wrong understanding of our reality.
"This principle that our inner world is taken into us from the outside by means of identification, and then, by way of projection, alters the external world so that it corresponds to the inner world even more closely requires some serious thought. Basically, we have to bootstrap ourselves out of here by reversing the process: we must create an inner world in the face of the opposition of the outer world, that then becomes strong enough, en masse, to change the outer world. An inner world that recognises pathology in power across the world, and all that it has wrought, for what it is, which then provides the resolve to do something about it."- Laura K-Jadczyk