Gold for US women! ⚽️
A few from this morning…
By the late seventies, among privileged people the worship of money was expressed by making corruption acceptable and the ostentatious parading of material luxury the norm. (bell hooks, All About Love)
extractive economy benefits greatly when people can’t learn to get along together. (Shannon Hayes, Radical Homemakers)
Capitalism and patriarchy together, as structures of domination, have worked overtime to undermine and destroy this larger unit of extended kin. Replacing the family community with a more privatized small autocratic unit helped increase alienation and made abuses of power more possible. (bell hooks, All About Love)
… this is also a thesis of Caliban and the Witch, by Sylvia Federici…
The linear path is responsible for the myth of progress. (Iain McGilchrist, The Matter With Things)
When we see love as the will to nurture one’s own or another’s spiritual growth, revealed through acts of care, respect, knowing, and assuming responsibility, the foundation of all love in our life is the same. There is no special love exclusively reserved for romantic partners. (bell hooks, All About Love)
In the end, each has become an interest group, concerned only with itself. While each may talk about Black Power, Women Power, Worker’s Power, in the final analysis each is only talking about separation of powers, or “a piece of the action.” None is talking about real power, which involves the reconstruction of the entire society for the benefit of the great majority and for the advancement of humanity. (bell hooks, Feminist Theory)
The philosopher Hannah Arendt put it neatly in her postwar study of totalitarian life: “The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.” (Sarah Bakewell, Humanly Possible)
Yes!
Christi Carras of the Los Angeles Times reported today that the reality TV industry has collapsed. From April to June, reality TV production in the Los Angeles region fell by 57% compared to the same period in 2023; that’s a 50% drop over the five-year average, excluding the Covid-induced production shutdown. The immediate reasons for the dropping production are systemic to the business, Carras reports, but the change seems to represent Americans’ souring on the blurring of reality and entertainment that gave us the Trump era.
Why is it a thing to film a scene so in the dark that you can’t make anything out? Seems unnecessarily artistic to me.
Managed to get the Sunday chores done… pushed through the all over aches my bodyhas beenen experiencing for a week now… i am feeling a little better today but don’t know if that will last…
From this morning…
… we are doing a Despicable Me and Minions marathon…
Not causing harm requires staying awake. Part of being awake is slowing down enough to notice what we say and do. The more we witness our emotional chain reactions and understand how they work, the easier it is to refrain. It becomes a way of life to stay awake, slow down, and notice. (Pema Chodron, When Things Fall Apart)
One of the ironies of the culture of greed is that the people who profit the most from earnings they have not worked to attain are the most eager to insist that the poor and working classes can only value material resources attained through hard work. (bell hooks, All About Love)
we jump from an awareness of a distinction to the assumption of a division. (Iain McGilchrist, The Matter With Things)
… even the most exact sciences float above ‘axiomatic abysses’: unexamined assumptions. (Iain McGilchrist, The Matter With Things)
We need to recognise the limitations of intellectual analysis, and the way in which insight is achieved not just by the controlling intellect, fussily classifying and cataloguing the pieces of the jigsaw, but by a process of attunement, whereby we allow different levels of understanding and awareness to coalesce, until a picture of the whole begins to emerge. (Iain McGilchrist, The Matter With Things)
Human brains, however, are closely interconnected with, and embedded in, the distributed networks of culture from infancy … Humans are collective thinkers, who rarely solve problems without input from the distributed cognitive systems of culture. (Iain McGilchrist, The Matter With Things)
… really tired of this physical tiredness i have been experiencing this week… the humid hot weather doesn’t help…
Since our consciousness plays some part in what comes into being, the play of attention can both create and destroy, but it never leaves its object unchanged. So how you attend to something – or don’t attend to it – matters a very great deal. (Iain McGilchrist, The Matter With Things)
Spiritual life is first and foremost about commitment to a way of thinking and behaving that honors principles of inter-being and interconnectedness. (bell hooks, All About Love)
ultimate meaning will always lie beyond what reason can conceive or everyday language express. (Iain McGilchrist, The Matter With Things)
“The poet alone knows astronomy, chemistry, vegetation and animation,” Emerson had written, “for he does not stop at these facts, but employs them as signs.” (Maria Popova, Figuring)