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Government has a flaw that General Electric doesn’t have. The government is potentially democratic. There’s a way of influencing the government and participating in it. I’m not joking, just think about it. When you’re saying that the government is doing this and that and the other thing to us, yes, the government is reflecting the interests of the people in it, but they could be representing us – there is no way for private tyrannies to be representing us. So yes, they would like you to hate the government. There is a lot wrong with the government, there is a lot to be hated about it, there is a lot to be changed about it. But the main thing about it is you can participate in it. And there are ways of changing what it does, and therefore, for at least people who believe in democracy, gives us advantages that other systems of powers don’t have. It is potentially our system of power, and the private corporations aren’t.
Noam Chomsky (via noam-chomsky)
Straw-necked Ibis by rogersmithpix on Flickr.
What a gorgeous birdie!
Those feathers!
Oh wow! Looks like holographic owo;
😮 I did not know these existed! Wow.
Come to Western Australia (or Australia), we have all these things and more. Although, I should say this guy is in breeding plumage, and he’s only gonna look that pretty / holographic for about a month and a half.
Thoth
My Day 1 entry for thenewabnormal’s project. I can’t decide if I want to color it in more or not after the big white glob of paint in the middle dries.
This is not just a sigil but a servitor as well, one for happiness. Feel free to use 🙂
Part of my eponymous sigil project. Feel free to join in.
‘Sigil’ as a word is out of date. All this magic stuff needs new terminology because it’s not what people are being told it is at all. It’s not all this wearying symbolic misdirection that’s being dragged up from the Victorian Age, when no-one was allowed to talk plainly and everything was in coy poetic code. The world’s at a crisis point and it’s time to stop bullshitting around with Qabalah and Thelema and Chaos and Information and all the rest of the metaphoric smoke and mirrors designed to make the rubes think magicians are ‘special’ people with special powers. It’s not like that. Everyone does magic all the time in different ways. ‘Life’ plus ‘significance’ = magic. (2004)
Grant Morrison (via thenewabnormal)
Loki
18th century Icelandic manuscript SÁM 66 in the care of the Árni Magnússon Institute in Iceland. (Norse Gods and Goddesses – About the Major Norse Gods and Goddesses in Norse Mythology)