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It is illegal for women to go topless in most cities, yet you can buy a magazine of a woman without her top on at any 7-11 store. So, you can sell breasts, but you cannot wear breasts, in America.

Violet Rose   (via siarn)

congregational-illuminism:

Manifesto

The manifesto of KIA as originally proposed by Anton Channing prior to the actual ritual to mark the birth of the new group, then known as the Kaotic and Illuminated Adepts.

  1. No hierarchy whatsoever, any initiation is optional and based on individual requirements as there are no grades of any kind, no dues and absolutely NO obligation.
  2. Everyone is entitled to a full members list (to make this possible a minimum amount of contact details should be provided, of email, town/city and country. Postal Address and/or Phone number optional unless no email address provided). Post Boxes with Aliases are fine.
  3. Any member is free to invite/exclude any other member to anything they personally organize. Those that organize a meeting may invite non-members, however this should be made clear to members who are also invited.
  4. Any member may leave whenever they want, although no-one may ever be forced to leave. It is enough that members you don’t personally like won’t be invited to things you don’t want them to be.
  5. It is our wish that this structure will make for an individualistic, non-hierarchical organization, capable of forming meetings on local, national and international levels.

These principles remain key to KIA in spirit, although a couple may seem dated in detail.  For example an actual list of contact addresses seems redundant in this age of internet proliferation, whereas even at the turn of the millennium there remained large numbers of people, even in industrialised nations, without internet access.

If we really saw war, what war does to young minds and bodies, it would be impossible to embrace the myth of war. If we had to stand over the mangled corpses of schoolchildren killed in Afghanistan and listen to the wails of their parents, we would not be able to repeat clichés we use to justify war. This is why war is carefully sanitized. This is why we are given war’s perverse and dark thrill but are spared from seeing war’s consequences. The mythic visions of war keep it heroic and entertaining…

The wounded, the crippled, and the dead are, in this great charade, swiftly carted offstage. They are war’s refuse. We do not see them. We do not hear them. They are doomed, like wandering spirits, to float around the edges of our consciousness, ignored, even reviled. The message they tell is too painful for us to hear. We prefer to celebrate ourselves and our nation by imbibing the myths of glory, honor, patriotism, and heroism, words that in combat become empty and meaningless.

—Chris Hedges, Death of the Liberal Class (via sol-psych)

(via mysticmementos)

“Wouldn’t you like to see a positive LSD story on the news? To base your decision on information rather than scare tactics and superstition? Perhaps? Wouldn’t that be interesting? Just for once? ‘Today, a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration – that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There’s no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we’re the imagination of ourselves. Here’s Tom with the weather.’”

– Bill Hicks

crowfather:

Sketchbook meanderings from a few months ago. Been trying to maintain the teachings of Barron Storey, one of my mentors from long past, and keep these as journals rather than sparse doodle books.  This is the title page from my 4th Journal.