Month: November 2011

elhieroglyph:

Ancient Egyptian Isis Cartonnage Fragment 

Ancient Egyptian stucco over linen cartonnage fragment with a seated Isis, protective Goddess who used magic spells to help people in need, the wife of Osiris and the mother of Horus wearing a sun disc on her head and holding a mirror, next to Thoth, the God of wisdom and learning holding an ankh, with traces of brown, green, yellow, and white with two lines of hieroglyphics to the right. Displayed in a shadow box. New Kingdom, 20th Dynasty.

Psychedelics are not illegal because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out the first story window, psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve phonic structures and culturally laid down novels of behavior and information processing, they open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong.

Terence McKenna (via neobutterfly)

If your government really cared for you – which they claim to, when restricting psychedlic use – do you think cigarettes would still be legal?

(via nathanielswhite)

David Hume was intrigued by “the easiness with which the many are governed by the few, the implicit submission with which men resign” their fate to their rulers. This he found surprising because “force is always on the side of the governed. If people realize that, they would rise up and overthrow the masters. He concluded that government is founded on control of opinion, a principle that “extends to the most despotic and most military governments as well as to the most free and most popular

Profit Over People – Noam Chomsky (via noam-chomsky)

for instance, in the United States there isn’t even any such thing as a “labor reporter” anymore (except in the business press, actually)-but there are plenty of “business reporters.” And again, that doesn’t reflect people’s interests: a lot more people are interested in the problems of workers than are interested in the bond market, if you count their numbers, but if you multiply their numbers by their power in the society, then yeah, it’s true, the market for news about money and stocks is much greater than the market for news about issues which matter to working people.

Noam Chomsky (via noam-chomsky)