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The Venus of Willendorf
24,000- 22,000 BCE
The Venus of Willdendorf is a statuette found in 1908 in a paleolithic site, a woman carved from limestone and tinted with red ochre, a mineral believed to be sacred to early cultures. Her large breasts and abdomen, as well as her detailed vulva, have led many to believe that this carving is meant to be a symbol of fertility, the thought echoed again by the fact that the woman has no face, only what appears to be either hair or an elaborate headdress covering her head. Several other statues of the same nature have been found over the years, many discovered to have been created long before the Venus of Willendorf; the formation of these statues signifies many things about this time period. It shows the beginning of religion, the worshipping of woman as “Earth Mother”, or perhaps as a symbol of fertility, and the availability of free time. While this statue is a piece of art, is also shows how far in the evolutionary stage humans were, able to care for themselves to the point where they had time to encourage the arts and early religion.
[Capitalism’s] concept of competitive man who seeks only to maximize wealth and power, who subjects himself to market relationships, to exploitation and external authority, is anti-human and intolerable in the deepest sense
Noam Chomsky (1970)
“The Fundamentalist Christians have told me that I am a slave of Satan and should have the demons expelled with an exorcism. The Fundamentalist Materialists inform me that I am a liar, a charlatan, fraud and scoundrel. Aside from this minor difference, the letters are astoundingly similar. Both groups share in the same crusading zeal and the same total lack of humor, charity, and common human decency.
These intolerable cults have served to confirm me in my agnosticism by presenting further evidence to support my contention that when dogmas enter the brain, all intellectual activity ceases.”
Robert Anton Wilson (via qaneh-bosem)
…unless you’re an illiterate and malnourished Asian with exactly 1.04 vaginas and 0.96 testicles, living in substandard housing, you do not qualify as normal but as abnormal, subnormal, supernormal, paranormal or some variety of nonnormal.
Robert Anton Wilson (via qaneh-bosem)
Why the Shutdown of Megauploads is and is not Bullshit
Shutting down Megauploads is bullshit because they are essentially only cloud storage. Amazon provides cloud storage too, and I bet they have plenty of copyrighted materials in there. But Amazon is on the too big to indict list of corporations. They participate in good old fashioned commerce that we all understand and do not irrationally fear.
Two, since when are you responsible for what someone does in the space you rent out? If I rented a storage area and put my murder victims in it, the person who rented me the storage space is not responsible. If I rent a house to a guy and he smokes pot in it, you can’t bust me for drug possession. Welcome to the new oligarchy. If your small company is becoming my competition, I will use the state to squash you.
And why is the shutdown of Megauploads not bullshit? Did you really think this was going to go on unchecked? It’s one thing to use torrents where it requires some kind of very limited technical expertise, or some other type of double-blind like emule. But search, find, and download copyrighted material straight from the web? You knew that was going away, right?
Sure, I can get up at dawn… go to a job I hate… that does not inspire me creatively whatsoever… for the rest of my life. OR… I can wake up at noon and learn how to play the sitar.” ~Bill Hicks
Bill Hicks (Dec 16, 1961 – Feb 26, 1994) [aka, “The Prophet”]
Brand: Marlboro Lights
Fame: Comedian
Bill Hicks was one part comedian, one part preacher. His name is gold in Austin, Texas… and his fame spread from one person to another across Northern Europe. He lived out loud… sometimes very loud… and I didn’t always agree with him… but his passion is infectious. He fought for drugs, civil rights and raged against the system that tries (even now) to brand us all as products… or as gears within a machine.
“Don’t worry, don’t be afraid — ever! — because this… is just a ride” ~Bill Hicks
On the 25th of February in 2004, the UK Parliament took a moment to recognize the life of Bill Hicks on the tenth anniversary of his death, stating: “That this House notes with sadness the 10th anniversary of the death of Bill Hicks, on 26th February 1994, at the age of 33; recalls his assertion that his words would be a bullet in the heart of consumerism, capitalism and the American Dream; and mourns the passing of one of the few people who may be mentioned as being worth of inclusion with Lenny Bruce in any list of unflinching and painfully honest political philosophers.” [ref]
* Required YouTube views: The Story of Bill Hicks, Smokers and Non-smokers, On Drugs
* For more info, visit Bill Hicks dot Com
* More information on Bill Hicks [Here on Wikipedia]
* Demotivator credit: Demotivational Poster by ~deanreevesii