jupiterroxx :

“capitalism is the best method of allocating resources” i hear you say, as human beings sleep on the ground, surrounded by empty dwellings, in the middle of a global pandemic, for the sole reason of being unprofitable.

fuck capitalism.

left-reminders :

There’s a surplus of homes/housing. Put people in homes/housing. No more excuses. Fuck capitalism.

EAT THE RICH
but marinate well
and keep antacid handy

When you removed yourself from your own thoughts and stopped to look at people—really look at them—you saw something surprising. Each of them—from the businessmen, phones pressed to their ears, loafers sidestepping puddles, to the tourists who lingered on street corners wondering which direction to walk—held a certain vulnerability about them. Did their parents love them? Did a man—a woman? And if the person who loved them left, how immense would their pain be? We busy ourselves trying not to be lonely, trying to find purpose in careers, and lovers, and children, but at any moment, those things we work so hard to possess could be taken from us. I feel better knowing I’m not alone, that the whole world is as fragile and lonely as I am.

eredion :

“Find meaning. Distinguish melancholy from sadness. Go out for a walk. It doesn’t have to be a romantic walk in the park, spring at its most spectacular moment, flowers and smells and outstanding poetical imagery smoothly transferring you into another world. It doesn’t have to be a walk during which you’ll have multiple life epiphanies and discover meanings no other brain ever managed to encounter. Do not be afraid of spending quality time by yourself. Find meaning or don’t find meaning but ‘steal’ some time and give it freely and exclusively to your own self. Opt for privacy and solitude. That doesn’t make you antisocial or cause you to reject the rest of the world. But you need to breathe. And you need to be.”

— Albert Camus, Notebooks 1951-1959 Read More »

It is likely that some troubles will befall us; but it is not a present fact. How often has the unexpected happened! How often has the expected never come to pass! And even though it is ordained to be, what does it avail to run out to meet your suffering? You will suffer soon enough, when it arrives; so look forward meanwhile to better things. What shall you gain by doing this? Time. There will be many happenings meanwhile which will serve to postpone, or end, or pass on to another person, the trials which are near or even in your very presence. A fire has opened the way to flight. Men have been let down softly by a catastrophe. Sometimes the sword has been checked even at the victim’s throat. Men have survived their own executioners. Even bad fortune is fickle. Perhaps it will come, perhaps not; in the meantime it is not. So look forward to better things. Read More »

Profesor językoznawstwa, przewodniczący wszystkich istniejących w Polsce komisji językowych, podczas zajęć poprosił studentkę o przeczytanie słownikowej definicji wyrazu „kochać”. Gdy studentka wykonała jego zalecenie, referując, że „kochać” to znaczy: „darzyć sympatią, uwielbieniem etc.”,
profesor teatralnie się oburzył: To są bzdury! Darzyć sympatią mogę bardzo wielu ludzi, ale to jeszcze nie znaczy, że ich wszystkich kocham. Najlepszą definicję słowa "kochać" stworzyła językoznawczyni, Anna Wierzbicka "Kochać, to chcieć być czyimś dobrem " Zapamiętajcie to: chcieć być czyimś dobrem.

Cała sztuka z przyjaźnią polega na tym, żeby znaleźć ludzi lepszych od siebie, nie inteligentniejszych, nie bardziej cool, ale lepszych, serdeczniejszych i bardziej wybaczających, a potem szanować ich za to, czego mogą cię nauczyć, i słuchać ich, gdy mówią ci coś o tobie samym, choćby i najgorszego... albo i najlepszego, to się zdarza; i ufać im, co jest najtrudniejsze ze wszystkiego. Ale też i najlepsze.

Ja nie lubię utopii. Bo zaczyna się od tego, że ktoś wymyśli sobie wyspę i tam cudowny ustrój jakiś panuje, a kończy się na obozach koncentracyjnych