With you I grieve, when on the darker side
Of this great change I look; and there behold
Such outrage done to nature as compels
The indignant power to justify herself. . . .
Then, in full many a region, once like this
The assured domain of calm simplicity
And pensive quiet, an unnatural light
Prepared for never-resting Labour's eyes
Breaks from a many-windowed fabric huge;
And at the appointed hour a bell is heard-- . . .
A local summons to unceasing toil!. . . .
Men, maidens, youths, Mother and little children, boys and girls,
Enter, and each the wonted task resumes
Within this temple, where is offered upTo Gain, the master idol of the realm,
Perpetual sacrifice.
Link, the end of high-school, and a picture that "sums it up".
Comments:
"The beginning of freedom. The end of freedom."
"My best vacation time was the one between highschool and college. I will never forget it. Something about it had the "true freedom" taste. Not a highschooler, not a college student, not anything. No labels, man!"
Another example of the machine mind
This picture is great in that it really puts things in perspective. I would love to hang this in my office, if I ever felt like complaining, I would just look at it and realize how lucky I am.
Third example of the machine mind
I am an atheist, pro-choice, pro-gay rights, pro-marijuana-minded individual. What the hell are my kids gonna rebel against?
Teenage rebellion. So - common. "It's normal". No it's not.
"Amistad" - this was a ship carrying slaves, and the slaves started a riot. They were able to do that, because Amistad was not a ship, purposefully built to carry slaves.
It was an ordinary ship. They probably had room to stand up, etc. If they would have adopted the Reddit machine mind, they would have said "we are so lucky!", and done nothing. Reddit was born on this slave ship. It knows nothing else. They look at other slave ships, and say "we are lucky, look at them, stop protesting, work, work, work!"
Gaviotas
Gaviotas is a village of about 200 people in Colombia, South America. For three decades, Gaviotans - peasants, scientists, artists, and former street kids - have struggled to build an oasis of imagination and sustainability in the remote, barren savannas of eastern Colombia, an area ravaged by political terror. They have planted millions of trees, thus regenerating an indigenous rainforest. They farm organically and use wind and solar power. Every family enjoys free housing, community meals, and schooling. There are no weapons, no police, no jail. There is no mayor.
200 people. No mayor, no judge, no police. Everybody has a house (none of them are in debt because of it), and there are no "poor". How do they do it ? Why "we" the majority cannot have what they have ? Because - they are no longer "human resources", they are just humans.
What a little escape from the machine does to people
"Dude my parents did the same thing one summer I went to brush ranch camp in NM. My dad got there and was like "This is basically day care WTF" then he found Camp Keewaydin in canada it was 6 weeks of living out of canoe no electricity or anything not even watches, the first week I cried like a bitch cause I was homesick by the end I was refusing to leave. It was the most influential and just amazing thing I have done."
Prisoner exchange
And "my solution":
http://paimei01.blogspot.com/2009/08/wh ... -work.html
