the art of boredom: Archive

IS your brother a doctor?

lol wut?

Jul 24, 2013

“We give ourselves altogether too much credit in our dealings with other species. Even the power over nature that domestication supposedly represents is overstated. It takes two to perform that particular dance, after all, and plenty of plants and animals have elected to sit it out. Try as they might, people have never been able to domesticate the oak tree, whose highly nutritious acorns remain far too bitter for humans to eat. Evidently the oak has such a satisfactory arrangement with the squirrel—which obligingly forgets where it has buried every fourth acorn or so (admittedly, the estimate is Beatrix Potter’s)—that the tree has never needed to enter into any kind of formal arrangement with us.”—

Michael Pollan, The Botany of Desire

via retromantique

(via sagansense)

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Fam, do you still write for the Pins, or have you moved onto greener pastures *as they say*?

Much love to the Pins, but I’m now at The Crosby Press.

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#y-3 #yohji yamamoto #qasa

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“Compassion hurts. When you feel connected to everything, you also feel responsible for everything. And you cannot turn away. Your destiny is bound with the destinies of others. You must either learn to carry the universe or be crushed by it. You must grow strong enough to love the world, yet empty enough to sit down at the same table with its worst horrors.”—Andrew Boyd (via citythatistocome)

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“The human-rights group Reprieve arranged for Yasiin Bey, better known as hip-hop artist Mos Def, to be force-fed using the standard operating procedure at Guantanamo Bay, a session they videotaped. In the disturbing footage, posted at The Guardian, Bey has a tube shoved down his nasal cavity and down his throat, at which point he pleads for the process to stop. The footage is below, and while I don’t know whether or not forced feeding crosses the line of torture, the exercise reminded me of the late Christopher Hitchens volunteering to be waterboarded.”—Conor Friedersdorf (via theatlantic)

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“The core problem is that living conditions haven’t really caught up with the improvements in people’s income. Brazil is an increasingly middle-class country that still has many of the characteristics of a poorer one.”—James Surowiecki explains why the protests led by Brazil’s middle class may lead to lasting change: http://nyr.kr/14AVjgs (via newyorker)

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“When you break the law, the government punishes you. But when the government breaks the law, who punishes the government?”—

(via christoph-liebe)

US! It’s supposed to be us. But, what happens?

We allow a shitty education system that keeps most of us so ignorant, we can’t tell if up is up and down is down. They lock up others in prisons. And they keep the rest of us distracted while we spend our entire lives working just to make ends meet.

(via knowledgeequalsblackpower)

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#kendrick lamar #sandro #bet awards

“Opinion is really the lowest form of human knowledge. It requires no accountability, no understanding. The highest form of knowledge is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another’s world. It requires profound purpose larger than the self kind of understanding.”—Bill Bullard (via lostintheharmonies)

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