November 2009
35 posts
inhale exhale feeling pale mental jail and how i feel is not to scale
“what we already know frames what we see, and what we see frames what we...”
– paul hawken, blessed unrest
“things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least”
– goethe
moods swinging
yoga breaths.
yes please - sew me lol →
maybe we’ll never manage to win an alumni game but i can honestly say i don’t care. i’m probably going to play until i’m too old to run. or until (unless) i’m out of the country. because it’s always one of the highlights of thanksgiving break. sorry so sappy but i love you guys.
they pledged our tuition →
i’m reading through each paragraph about 3 times to make sure i understand because it has a lot of econ-y talk in it (makes me excited for econ 1 next semester, i’ll hopefully be able to understand stuff like this easily) but it’s really interesting.
our crisis of priorities
it is almost too obvious to say that more students attended the Big Game than any of the protests going on during this past week combined. maybe i was wrong in thinking that students at this university care more about their education (and the education of their future children) than athletics. hey, let’s build that new costly athletic facility that will only serve a small, small minority of...
I wish I could say, thanks, Mr. Yudof →
“Residents of slums constitute a staggering 78.2 percent of the urban population...”
– -Planet of Slums, Mike Davis
i just read that article about “alternative” tourism and the ways in which it somewhat implies a neocolonial relationship, and certainly a hegemonic relationship, between the First World and the Third World. now i’m reading excerpts from Planet of...
“half of what i say is meaningless
but i say it just to reach you”
– -Julia, The Beatles
I’m reading Daul Kim’s blog right now.
(no) business as usual
apathy, forced ignorance, cynicism and laziness
sadly, i think those words pretty much describe how this strike went/is progressing.
about 1,000 people marched on wednesday — against a 32% percent tuition increase that will force many people to consider other (shittier) alternatives to the world-class public education they deserve;
against furloughs and layoffs of teachers like Joi...
books i want to read
(a handy guide in case i lose my list)
-Orientalism, Edward Said
-The World’s Banker
-The Shock Doctrine, Naomi Klein
-The Anti-Development State, Walden Bello
-Confessions of an Economic Hitman
-Chief of Station
-King Leopold’s Ghost
-Blood Oil, Michael Watts
-Supercapitalism, Robert Reich
-Globalization and its Discontents, Joseph Stiglitz
-Formations of Modernity,...
“In the face of the overriding imperative to ‘secure the survival of the planet’, autonomy easily becomes an anti-social value, and diversity turns into an obstacle to collective action. Can one imagine a more powerful motive for forcing the world into live than that of saving the planet? Eco-colonialism constitutes a new danger for the tapestry of cultures on the globe.”
...
i want to go home.
“We Can Put Poverty in the Museums
I believe that we can create a poverty-free world because poverty is not created by poor people. It has been created and sustained by the economic and social system that we have designed for ourselves; the institutions and concepts that make up that system; the policies that we pursue.
Poverty is created because we built our theoretical framework ...
“We Create What We Want
We get what we want, or what we don’t refuse. We accept the fact that we will always have poor people around us, and that poverty is part of human destiny. This is precisely why we continue to have poor people around us. If we firmly believe that poverty is unacceptable to us, and that it should not belong to a civilized society, we would have built...
“Second Generation
It is 30 years now since we began. We keep looking at the children of our borrowers to see what has been the impact of our work on their lives. The women who are our borrowers always gave topmost priority to the children. One of the Sixteen Decisions developed and followed by them was to send children to school. Grameen Bank encouraged them, and before long all...
apparently everyone has a tumblr.
i’m glad.
i think it’s impossible to come up with an objective, or at least non-subjective, evaluation of our face’s attractiveness. One could argue that it’s impossible to come up with an objective evaluation of anyone else’s face too, but that’s not the point. sometimes i look in the mirror and am surprised by what i see. not because i think i look shitty or because i think i...
i miss you already
obvi.
i had the best time with you this weekend. i was trying to reblog this thing from jane’s tumblr but tumblr/the internet is being a douche so i can’t. something about you being the lighthouse of my universe. about how nothing is as beautiful as when i’m with you.
