Sex, love, and rock n' roll, wine, women, and song, driving my car spritedly, dancing, showers (poor substitute for my hot tub at home), blondes, revolution, idealism, rationalism, learning, brunettes, poker, improving myself, definitely not in that order.
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I'd like to meet:
Someone who's over the games. Someone who thinks. Someone who cares. Someone who likes the camera. Someone who reads. Someone who isn't afraid to get aggressive. Someone who likes Bad Religion. Someone who wants to smash the state (and corporatocracy) and make the world a better place. Someone who listens to the lyrics. Someone who watches C-SPAN (so they can show me how they do it, hehe). But mostly, someone who actually read this entire profile! haha.Also: Dancers (best in bed if you ask me). Hippies. Revolutionaries.If you read US Weekly with any seriousness, plan your schedule around any television show, or actually respect people like Paris Hilton (including if you have her in your "Who I'd like to meet" section), you'll find it difficult for me to respect you in any serious way."Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference"
-Some one who knows who wrote that Please, don't add me if I don't know you unless you at least send me a message too. What is this a popularity contest? Those were lame even back in high school.
Music:
Bad Religion, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Metallica in that order. Also, Immortal Technique, Pink Floyd, Led Zepplin and alot more...Here's what I've been listening to in the last week:And here's what I listen to most:
Movies:
.. x3 .. x3 and all Monty Python and Mel Brooks!
Television:
BREAK YOUR TELEVISION!
"Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both".
-Benjamin Franklin"Between 1898 and 1934, the Marines invaded Cuba 4 times, Nicaragua 5 times, Honduras 7 times, the Dominican Republic 4 times, Haiti twice, Guatemala. Washington has intervened militarily in foreign countries more than 200 times. "
- Addicted to War by Joel Andreas"Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear"
-Bertrand Russell, English logician and philosopher 1872-1970
(Fucking fear mongers...)"Fear always springs from ignorance"
-Ralph Waldo Emerson"The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more than the average share of leisure, brutality, and stupidity. The next step is to fascinate fools and muzzle the intelligent, by emotional excitement on the one hand and terrorism on the other."
-Bertrand Russell: Freedom, Harcourt Brace, 1940)"Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of government. The history of liberty is the history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it"
-Woodrow Wilson"The ultimate consequence of protecting men from the results of their own folly is to fill the world with fools."
-Herbert Spencer
Scientia est potentia.
Books:
And anything else by George Orwell, esp. Animal Farm. Also, Catcher in the Rye, Ender's Game, and, The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy, I read da vinci code like everybody else, its good, you should too. Ishmael by Quinn makes me want to be even more radical. My favorite magazine is Adbusters. Also, i like well reasoned alternative viewpoints as well, gimmie suggestions..."You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get them to stop reading them."
-Ray Bradbury"The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."
-Mark Twain“We live at the level of our language. Whatever we can articulate we can imagine or explore. All you have to do to educate a child is leave him alone and teach him to read. The rest is brainwashing.â€
-Ellen Gilcrist
Heroes:
Thomas Jefferson
President John F. Kennedy welcomed 49 Nobel Prize winners to the White House in 1962, saying, "I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone."I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations which dare already to challenge our government in a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country." - Thomas Jefferson
George Orwell "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." War is peace - The war on terror, the war on drugs
Freedom is slavery - Wage slavery, consumerism, surveillance
Ignorance is strength - Television, US Weakly, ESPN"...a return to 'free' competition means for the great mass of people a tyranny probably worse, because it is more irresponsible, than that of the state."
-From a review of "The Road to Serfdom" by F.A. Hayek (1944)"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."
-Preface to Animal Farm (1946)"The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them."
-Notes on Nationalism (1945)"There is no crime, absolutely none, that cannot be condoned when our side commits it."
-Notes on Nationalism (1945) (Torture anyone?)"In an age of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act."From 1984:
"He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past."
"The rocket bombs which fell daily on London were probably fired by the Government of Oceania itself, 'just to keep people frightened'."
"In past ages, a war, almost by definition, was something that sooner or later came to an end, usually in unmistakable victory or defeat. In the past, also, war was one of the main instruments by which human societies were kept in touch with physical reality. All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers, but they could not afford to encourage any illusion that tended to impair military efficiency. So long as defeat meant the loss of independence, or some other result generally held to be undesirable, the precautions against defeat had to be serious. Physical facts could not be ignored. In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four. Inefficient nations were always conquered sooner or later, and the struggle for efficiency was inimical to illusions. Moreover, to be efficient it was necessary to be able to learn from the past, which meant having a fairly accurate idea of what had happened in the past. Newspapers and history books were, of course, always coloured and biased, but falsification of the kind that is practised today would have been impossible. War was a sure safeguard of sanity, and so far as the ruling classes were concerned it was probably the most important of all safeguards. While wars could be won or lost, no ruling class could be completely irresponsible."
"The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power."
"The purpose of Newspeak was not only to provide a medium of expression for the world-view and mental habits proper to the devotees of Ingsoc, but to make all other modes of thought impossible."
Noam Chomsky "You know I watch children's television with my grandchildren sometimes. From practically infancy you are deluged with propaganda that says your life depends, your value as a human being depends on how many useless commodities you consume." "Take a look at the last campaign. The campaign is run by the same people who sell toothpaste, exactly the same PR agencies. And when they sell a candidate they do it the exact same way they sell a lifestyle drug. You don't put up information about the candidate, what you do is create delusional images that delude and deceive. The population knows it. A very small number of the population, about 10% of the voters, literally, knew the stands of the candidates on the issues. And it's not because they are stupid or uninterested. It's just like you don't know the characteristics of toothpaste." "Popular attitudes are just not reported. Sometimes it's fantastic. So after the federal budget came out last february, the major public opinion institute in the country did a careful poll of people's attitudes toward the budget. It was just like a mirror image of what the budget was. Where federal spending is going up - military, Iraq, Afghanistan - people wanted it to go down, large majorities; where it was going down, same large majorities, people wanted it to go up: social spending, education, renewable energy, support for the united nations, so on. A huge majority wants Bush to rescind tax cuts for the rich, people with over $200,000 income and so on. Well how was that reported? Well a friend of mine did a database search and nothing. Zero. Only one newspaper in the country - some small town newspaper in Iowa." "The more educated you are the more indoctrinated you are. And you believe you are being free and objective, whereas in fact you're just repeating state propaganda."
Ernesto 'Ché' Guevara "At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality."
"The laws of capitalism, blind and invisible to the majority, act upon the individual without his thinking about it. He sees only the vastness of a seemingly infinite horizon before him. That is how it is painted by capitalist propagandists, who purport to draw a lesson from the example of Rockefeller— whether or not it is true— about the possibilities of success. The amount of poverty and suffering required for the emergence of a Rockefeller, and the amount of depravity that the accumulation of a fortune of such magnitude entails, are left out of the picture, and it is not always possible to make the people in general see this.""I know you've come to kill me. Shoot, you are only going to kill a man." - last words
Martin Luther King, jr. "I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered."
-Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. April 4, 1967"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. John Gilmore
"Think for yourself and question authority." -Timothy Leary "The only difference between Bush and Gore is the velocity with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock at the door." -- Ralph Nader, 2000 election.
