"The language of society is conformity: the language of the creative individual is freedom. Life will continue to be a hell as long as the people who make up the world shut their eyes to reality."
~ Henry Miller
Sometimes you have to be honest with yourself and say, "I'm not loved here. I'm not appreciated. I'm not valued. I'm not seen." Then walk away, and stay away.
“I see nothing “wrong” in believing in a God. I don’t think there is a God, but belief in him does no harm. If it helps you in any way, then that’s fine with me. It’s when belief starts infringing on other people’s rights when it worries me.”
Be aware of people addicted to stress and chaos. Without adrenaline flooding their body, they don't feel like themselves.
They don't want advice or solutions.
They want a captive audience that doesn't force them to self reflect.
@tmorello I was 14 yo and someone left this cd in the boombox in my high school weight lifting class. I played it and my mind was blown. i had never heard music like this before. instantly hooked.
“Civilized life, you know, is based on a huge number of illusions in which we all collaborate willingly. The trouble is we forget after a while that they are illusions and we are deeply shocked when reality is torn down around us.”
― J.G. Ballard
The US Postal Service is unveiling their new Lowrider stamps. 😎 “From the colors, bounce, and culture, these stamps steal the show 🌟”
What was once illegal in California is now a federal stamp. 🚗 #california#lowrider#classiccar#classic#chicano
Alice in Chains doing “Man in the Box” on ABC’s In Concert (1991) is unreal — Layne Staley sounds like he’s tearing the words out of himself, and Jerry’s riff just grinds straight through you. Pure early-’90s darkness, no filter.
The American Revolution did not start with a five point policy plan.
It started with a simple refusal: “You do not own us.”
A tax on paper and tea was enough to light a fuse because people still understood that even small chains come from the same forge as the heavy ones.
Today you get taxed on your income, your purchases, your home, your savings, your death, and you are told this is normal and mature and civilized.
You are searched at airports, spied on through bulk data collection, censored under “safety” policies, drafted into culture wars you never asked for, then handed a flag and told to be grateful.
If the founders saw this level of compliance, they would think the Redcoats won.
Liberty is the live demand that the spirit of 1776 still applies. No king, no parliament, no agency, no administration owns your life, your labor, or your voice.
If that idea feels “extreme” now, that says more about how far we have drifted than it does about the idea.
"Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is. They are addicts, and they are guilty and they do lie and cheat and steal — like all junkies. And when they get in a frenzy, they will sacrifice anything and anybody to feed their cruel and stupid habit, and there is no cure for it."
~ Hunter S. Thompson
Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only cure is to load up on heinous chemicals and then drive like a bastard from Hollywood to Las Vegas ... with the music at top volume and at least a pint of ether.
The Trump administration’s union-busting executive order breaks federal law with a dangerous escalation of attacks on our most fundamental freedoms.
We're proud to stand with America’s unions as they take the Trump admin to court today. https://t.co/gk4zOlFDPg
The great Charles Bukowski died on this day in 1994.
“There's nothing to mourn about death any more than there is to mourn about the growing of a flower. What is terrible is not death but the lives people live or don't live up until their death. They don't honor their own lives, they piss on their lives.
They shit them away. Dumb fuckers.
They concentrate too much on fucking, movies, money, family, fucking. Their minds are full of cotton.
They swallow God without thinking, they swallow country without thinking. Soon they forget how to think, they let others think for them.
Their brains are stuffed with cotton. They look ugly, they talk ugly, they walk ugly. Play them the great music of the centuries and they can't hear it. Most people's deaths are a sham. There's nothing left to die.”