Hypnotic.
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Anonymous asked: You seem a little angry?
Angry! What do you mean I seem angry!?! GRRRRRR!!!!!!
I assume you’re referring to my series of anti-corporate, anti-globalist, anti-consumerist posts. I’m not raging or anything, but about that stuff I am always a bit perturbed. I don’t know if there’s a way to explain my feelings to the average “anonymous” person without sounding like a nutjob, but basically…
Modern mega-corporations are the great “evils” of our time. I don’t mean that in the common lunatic conspiracy sense that they are out to control the world or destroy humanity, but more in the vein of the banality of evil. We are at a point in history where we allow great crimes and injustices to occur because we are addicted to materialism.
I’m not against capitalism as a rule, but the modern version of it is a gross perversion. We spent hundreds of years trying to figure out a system of government that would properly represent the interests of the people, but now we’ve all but thrown that away in a single generation. These stateless mega-corporations are more powerful than most governments and they dictate the structure and rules of our society.
If you’re not angry, you’re not paying attention. :)
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Robert Mitchum
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Burma by Steve McCurry
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Nobody can tell the foreigners to stop what they’re doing,
A few hired slaves are ruling the country.
O Kabul! We will clean you from these black faces,
Lines of committed believers are formed.
--From “Kabul is set on fire,” by Hafiz Ikramuddin, Aug. 8, 2008.
The lines above are from Poetry of the Taliban, an anthology of 200 poems, edited by Alex Strick van Linschoten and Felix Keuhn, that has been newly published by Hurst & Co. in the U.K. The same volume will be published next month by Columbia University Press in New York. A fuller précis, with a few notes about an old and unsurprising controversy, can be found on the NYT’s At War blog, here.
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