291 of you still follow this blog?! Whhhhhyyy??? It’s been like a year.
291 of you still follow this blog?! Whhhhhyyy??? It’s been like a year.
Anonymous asked: New blog name?
come off anon and i will tell you
i’m abandoning this blog. inquire within if you’d like the url to my new one.
i’m abandoning this blog. inquire within if you’d like the url to my new one.
if you’re surprised that obama isn’t vetoing the national defense authorization act, then you haven’t been paying attention. here’s one way to bring yourself up to speed.
“Man is stupid, you know, phenomenally stupid; or rather he is not at all stupid, but he is so ungrateful that you could not find another like him in all creation. I, for instance, would not be in the least surprised if all of a sudden, A PROPOS of nothing, in the midst of general prosperity a gentleman with an ignoble, or rather with a reactionary and ironical, countenance were to arise and, putting his arms akimbo, say to us all: “I say, gentleman, hadn’t we better kick over the whole show and scatter rationalism to the winds, simply to send these logarithms to the devil, and to enable us to live once more at our own sweet foolish will!” That again would not matter, but what is annoying is that he would be sure to find followers–such is the nature of man. And all that for the most foolish reason, which, one would think, was hardly worth mentioning: that is, that man everywhere and at all times, whoever he may be, has preferred to act as he chose and not in the least as his reason and advantage dictated. And one may choose what is contrary to one’s own interests, and sometimes one POSITIVELY OUGHT (that is my idea). One’s own free unfettered choice, one’s own caprice, however wild it may be, one’s own fancy worked up at times to frenzy–is that very “most advantageous advantage” which we have overlooked, which comes under no classification and against which all systems and theories are continually being shattered to atoms. And how do these wiseacres know that man wants a normal, a virtuous choice? What has made them conceive that man must want a rationally advantageous choice? What man wants is simply INDEPENDENT choice, whatever that wants is simply INDEPENDENT choice, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead. And choice, of course, the devil only knows what choice.”
I’m a vegetarian myself, though I’ve never considered that part of my moral code. I do it because a meatless diet has made me healthier. But these people argue that, since animals have to be killed for food, if you eat meat, you’re “encouraging” aggression against animals. Please enlighten me. Tell me what you think. My roommate is libertarian and vegan, and she believes eating animals violates the non-aggression axiom.
when people eat meat they aren’t just “encouraging” the mistreatment and slaughter of animals (which i think is pretty bad in itself), they’re actively engaging in a system that profits from the death and, often, torture of animals. if this is permitted by the non-aggression axiom, then it seems like a pretty aggressive principle of non-aggression.
a lot of people like to think that humans are different from other animals in an essential way. we are more “intelligent” than most, if not all, known organisms, but why does that mean it’s okay to kill those less “intelligent”? “well, animals eat other animals too,” i often hear, but this hardly helps the original point that humans are somehow more special than other animals (if in no way other than that the NAP applies to them and not other animals). furthermore, if intelligence is to act as this essential difference between humans and other animals, why reject a healthy, cruelty free, and delicious eating preference (remember, that’s all this is guys; it’s just an eating preference) made possible by human ingenuity?
now, if we forget axioms and other rationalizations people offer for eating meat (i already have), it boils down to people just not wanting to not eat meat. it’s something that they like, and they’d rather not go without it. fine. but don’t cloak this [revolting] preference in the smokey veils of morality or ideology. the same goes for the faithful of all Dieties.
i want to write a porno with you in it. eating toast and looking at the morning paper. drinking coffee and dreaming of another life. a life where you weren’t stuck in a dingy apartment with burnt toast and burnt coffee and burnt out me. i’ll shoot you another one of my long looks meant to peer past your defenses and extract some hint or spark of feeling, just enough to give me the confidence to approach you on this otherwise uneventful weekday morning. you’ve resigned yourself to a life left wanting, but this morning i’ve decided that what i’ve been wanting is you. you continue to play your designated part; uninterested, unimpressed, slightly annoyed, and slightly distressed. i take the place of the paper as i slide onto your lap, but if your sigh was one of protest, why didn’t it continue as i undressed? your eyes study me with calm sobriety and my skin chills as your expression warms. there’s something in your eyes which i cannot decipher. it continues to grow until it covers your whole face. you explode into laughter and push me away. you tell me how beautifully i’ve played my part but remind me for the future that “this is life, not art.”
“It’s all about falling in love with yourself and sharing that love with someone who appreciates you, rather than looking for love to compensate for a self love deficit.”
(Source: theysayimcomplex-blog-blog)
Fugazi “I’m so Tired”
out here i can barely see my breath
surrounded by jealousy and death
i can’t be reached, only had one call
dragged underneath, separate from you all
this time i’ve lost my own return
in spite of everything i’ve learned
i hid my tracks, spit out all my air
slipped into cracks, stripped of all my cares
i’m so tired sheep are counting me
no more struggle, no more energy
no more patient and you can write that down
it’s all too crazy and i’m not sticking round