realstraykat

None of us are to be blamed for being passionate about what we believe. In fact the opposite is true. Democracy means nothing as a bland hash of conformity. Our society needs strong opinions to fight the current trends where art is determined by academics and practiced by people who don't want to offend anyone.

This may be one of the only periods in human...
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An Interview With Jacques Derrida
by Nikhil Padgaonkar

N.P.: Let me begin this interview by asking you what has been retained today from the word "philosophy" as the Greeks understood it nearly three thousand years ago - that is, as love of wisdom. Are either "love" or "wisdom" issues today?

J.D.: Well, when we teach philosophy in France, at the beginning of every academic year,...
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Why America Loves NASCAR
(Hint: Because it's not black.


From the Village Voice:


By saying NASCAR isn't black, I mean it isn't African American. And NASCAR is not at all black: Not in the cockpits of the stockcars; not on the pit crews; rarely, if at all, among the multitudes filling the 160,000-seat speedway stands. It's considered an all-American sport, inclusive and meritocratic, but to...
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The politics of apathy.
How unprogressive can a whole generation be. Well just look more on this site.
Most of what I have been reading on this site not including the great articles have been meaningless.
Where are the thinkers of a new generation? Where are the artist the people who are affected by what has been going on with the world.
I can't understand...
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This was written by "Riverbend"
24 year old girl who lives in Iraq.
To read more of her stuff log on to: http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/

Monday, October 03, 2005

Constitution Conversations...
I went to sit in the garden to peruse two different versions of the draft constitution. It was 7 pm and the electricity had just gone out for the sixth time that day. There was no...
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Next week, American Idol victoress Fantasia Barrino heads to Miami on a tour with Kanye West and Common, and for once she wont be dragging her most troubling secret along. In her just-released memoir, Life is Not a Fairy Tale, the 21-year-old revealed that she is functionally illiterate. Halfway through Chapter 3 (with the help of ghostwriter Kim Greene), she writes:
Not a day goes...
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The School system here in Los Angeles has become worse not better.
People turn the other way as more and more inner city schools are shut down. The rich get the education. The poor fight to pay the rent, feed the kids.
New Orleans showed a side of the US that many pass pay and don't look at. Or rather ignore. The idea being if...
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I pray for deep listening in the new century -- listening alone --
>listening together -- listening to others -- listening to oneself --
>listening to the earth -- listening to the universe -- listening to the
>abundance that is -- awakening to and feeling sound and silence as
>all there is -- helping to create an atmosphere of opening
>for all to be heard,...
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Gals with pho-hawks are hot. I know double standard. But then again a pho hawk is more of a girls hair cut than a guys.

The Pho- Hawk or Poser Hawk sucks! I'm so sick of seeing poser's trying to be cutting edge trying really hard to be "COOL" sporting a Poser. It's the hair cut that says i'm to pussy to get a real Mo Hawk. I'm still afraid what other people are going to think of me if i get a "REAL" hawk.
Leave it to american's to...
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If all the stories were true. If all the horror that had become real echo through to our bones they would shatter. They would shatter like glass.
The news swells with the flooding in New Orleans.
And I cannot help but to think about all those lives lost and those who are still losing.
It gives a new label to our own humanity and are...
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