the art of boredom
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Lapes is the 2012 Duke of Windsor. Everyone is peeping his swag whether you like it or not. You’re not supposed to copy the swag stitch for stitch. He’s on some outer space swagged out idiot savant sprezzy originator steez from Uranus. You just peep the greatness and take a cue here and there.
Also, Lapo is like Nacho Vidal. He’s a straight but secretly gay but somewhat straight gay icon, if that makes sense. That’s why dudes like Tom Ford have shrines to him in their powder room. And their style is really not that dissimilar - coked-out wide lapel spalla camicia bespoke steez.
”—CaymanS on the Lapo
d e a t h
i detest the thought of growing old.
aging is an inevitability, but far too many begin to live passively. i was thrust into this world violently and i live violently. i eat too little or far too much. i have gone days without sleep and slept in for days. i drink and drank excessively and take my hangovers as a consequence, not a punishment. i have worked to exhaustion— i have pushed, pulled, lifted, lowered, chopped, and built with my hands. i have loved, lost and languished. i have been the hedonist and have found joy in asceticism.
i traveled and still long to leave. i find delight in the unfamiliar where the language, food, culture, and architecture is unfamiliar. people are always telling me that maturity or marriage will keep me grounded, but that only makes those things become undesireable.
when old age does arrive, i refuse to delay toward death. far too many people do all they can to prolong their exits. it’s bad theatre and its bad living. men grow into babies, needing to be fed, bathed, and changed. why regress into infancy? i will live for Glory, i will die in gain.
Above all, capitalism wastes human life. The U.S. spends billions to warehouse 2 million people—many of them young Black and Latino men—in overcrowded prisons. It provides sub-par education to millions of poor students, sending a message that their lives will amount to nothing.
Are people homeless in America because there’s a shortage of homes? And if that’s the case, is there a shortage of homes because we don’t have the concrete, the wood and the steel to build them?
The truth is that under capitalism, there’s no incentive to build low-cost housing for the homeless—because it isn’t profitable to do so.
The same goes for the more than 800 million people in the world who go hungry. It isn’t profitable to feed them. So food is stockpiled or destroyed rather than distributed to them.
”—Is the free market efficient? (via humanformat)
Can’t say it enough: Capitalism is the pursuit of the highest profit possible. This is why child labor and the 18-hour days were so prevalent, and why we are still struggling so hard for health benefits and maternity leave: because spending money on things that will not turn a profit or will damage a precious profit margin (i.e. investing money in building homes, paying for worker’s health, cutting down hours while increasing pay) is against everything that capitalism stands for.
We do not want to live in such an unstable system.
(via stuish)