Bicycles, cars, linguistics

So I’ve been pondering lately… what if the powers that be (government, media, whatever) linguistically defined things like cars as “fat people movers”, would Americans then realize that the average car costs roughly $2200 in gas every year? This is the same sort of thing they do with drugs. Perhaps using a bicycle for small errands is the way to go…

"You alone are the judge of your worth and your goal is to discover infinite worth in yourself, no matter what anyone else thinks."
Deepak Chopra (via zodiaccity)

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"Without sounding too cliche, the Internet really is the birth of global mind."
Terence McKenna

"We have to create culture, don’t watch TV, don’t read magazines, don’t even listen to NPR. Create your own roadshow. The nexus of space and time where you are now is the most immediate sector of your universe, and if you’re worrying about Michael Jackson or Bill Clinton or somebody else, then you are disempowered, you’re giving it all away to icons, icons which are maintained by an electronic media so that you want to dress like X or have lips like Y. This is shit-brained, this kind of thinking. That is all cultural diversion, and what is real is you and your friends and your associations, your highs, your orgasms, your hopes, your plans, your fears. And we are told ‘no’, we’re unimportant, we’re peripheral. ‘Get a degree, get a job, get a this, get a that.’ And then you’re a player, you don’t want to even play in that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that’s being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world."
Terence McKenna

travelingcolors:

RGB fabulous landscapes by Carnovsky

Within the colonnaded courtyard of Fondazione Adolfo Pini, Francesco Rugi and Silvia Quintanilla presented their ‘RGB fabulous landscapes’ in an exhibition focused on the interpretation of the landscape and meteorological phenomena: atmosphere landscapes, architectonic and perspective landscapes, emotional landscapes, ephemeral landscapes, all in continuous movement.

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"We can’t jump off bridges anymore because our iPhones will get ruined. We can’t take skinny dips in the ocean, because there’s no service on the beach and adventures aren’t real unless they’re on Instagram. Technology has doomed the spontaneity of adventure and we’re helping destroy it every time we Google, check-in, and hashtag."
Jeremy Glass, We Can’t Get Lost Anymore   (via nonreflections)

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