Jami Ray

UBUNTU! I am because we are.

[Jami Ray @Jami_Ray_Ramij]

@susanabulhawa This is absolutely a thing. And It's even worse than what this video points out.

[Jami Ray @Jami_Ray_Ramij]

@hannahbartlet51 It’s more than just a lie. It’s a mantra repeated with a group of peers 180 days a year for 12 formative years, starting at an age when kids don’t know the definition of the words. It is the brainwashing of children to ensure their unquestioned patriotism.

[Jami Ray @Jami_Ray_Ramij]

@TomLondon6 Have you done one of these on the pledge of allegiance?

A mantra spoken by children 180 days a year for 12 yrs with a group of peers before they are old enough to know what the definitions of the words are let alone the gravity they hold.

It literally brainwashes kids.

[Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec]

Only deeply sick societies spend obscene amounts on chains, cages, walls, and all-seeing cameras as opposed to stuff that fosters beauty, joy, health, people who can think, and a natural world capable of sustaining it all.

[Jami Ray @Jami_Ray_Ramij]

Exactly this! It is basic common sense.

[Media Lens @medialens]

Michael Parenti on the five stages of journalism.

https://t.co/L806iMXBui

[Media Lens @medialens]

Michael Parenti, who has just died, on how journalism works:

“You say what you like, because they like what you say...you don’t know you’re wearing a leash if you sit by the peg all day. It’s only if you then begin to wander to a prohibited perimeter that you feel the tug.”

https://t.co/lJa2N7o6vf

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

Umberto Eco, who owned 50,000 books, had this to say about home libraries:

“It is foolish to think that you have to read all the books you buy, as it is foolish to criticize those who buy more books than they will ever be able to read. It would be like saying that you should use all the cutlery or glasses or screwdrivers or drill bits you bought before buying new ones.

“There are things in life that we need to always have plenty of supplies, even if we will only use a small portion.

“If, for example, we consider books as medicine, we understand that it is good to have many at home rather than a few: when you want to feel better, then you go to the ‘medicine closet’ and choose a book. Not a random one, but the right book for that moment. That’s why you should always have a nutrition choice!

“Those who buy only one book, read only that one and then get rid of it. They simply apply the consumer mentality to books, that is, they consider them a consumer product, a good. Those who love books know that a book is anything but a commodity.”

[Jami Ray @Jami_Ray_Ramij]

I read this to my wife and it brought tears to our eyes. Such beautiful love.

22 years and counting and I love her a little more each day.

[Prof. Carl Sagan @ProfCarlSagan]

When my husband died, because he was so famous and known for not being a believer, many people would come up to me-it still sometimes happens-and ask me if Carl changed at the end and converted to a belief in an afterlife.

They also frequently ask me if I think I will see him again. Carl faced his death with unflagging courage and never sought refuge in illusions.

The tragedy was that we knew we would never see each other again.

I don't ever expect to be reunited with Carl. But, the great thing is that when we were together, for nearly twenty years, we lived with a vivid appreciation of how brief and precious life is.

We never trivialized the meaning of death by pretending it was anything other than a final parting.

Every single moment that we were alive and we were together was miraculous-not miraculous in the sense of inexplicable or supernatural.

We knew we were beneficiaries of chance. . . .

That pure chance could be so generous and so kind. . . .

That we could find each other, as Carl wrote so beautifully in Cosmos, you know, in the vastness of space and the immensity of time. . . .

That we could be together for twenty years. That is something which sustains me and it’s much more meaningful. . . .

The way he treated me and the way I treated him, the way we took care of each other and our family, while he lived. That is so much more important than the idea I will see him someday.

I don't think I'll ever see Carl again. But I saw him. We saw each other. We found each other in the cosmos, and that was wonderful.

- Ann Druyan

[susan abulhawa | سوزان ابو الهوى @susanabulhawa]

What it means to be beautiful and rich, to lead a life well lived.

[Jami Ray @Jami_Ray_Ramij]

Hear! Hear!

[Jami Ray @Jami_Ray_Ramij]

@Anar_Propaganda Not for nothing but everything I see from you the last several days just says file not found. Could be something on my end but yours is the only account I see it from. Just fyi.

Keep fighting the good fight!

[Poetic Outlaws @OutlawsPoetic]

“Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence—those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you'd collapse. And while you people are over-consuming, the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster.”

― Aldous Huxley

[Jami Ray @Jami_Ray_Ramij]

@MeowRuka @extra_beef_ Huh, I have never heard of The Kuleshov Effect before. Very interesting.

Yes! Moving pictures were the gateway to propagandizing entire generations at a time.

[Jami Ray @Jami_Ray_Ramij]

@John83778200 @aaronjmate @MaxBlumenthal @DiploStory I was totally watching that smug smile disappear from his face. Was my favorite part of the video.

[Jami Ray @Jami_Ray_Ramij]

Structural violence.

[Prof Zenkus @anthonyzenkus]

Hospitals that get bought out by private equity see a 13% increase in ER deaths. That's thousands of people a year who die needlessly so billionaire private equity bums can get even richer. It's time to take capitalism out of healthcare.

[Jami Ray @Jami_Ray_Ramij]

@MilesJohnston Sometimes art just grabs me. This grabbed me and wont let go.

I just ordered a print.

Thank you for being you!

[Jami Ray @Jami_Ray_Ramij]

Resonates

[Miles Johnston @MilesJohnston]

Something I painted --Burnout

[Jami Ray @Jami_Ray_Ramij]

@shekelmanc64 @ProudSocialist They have been doing this for a very long time. Not only for wars but for so many other things as well. We live in a culture of propaganda.