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Ana Maria, protests. "When we're down to
eating our ancestors," she asks, "what is left?"

Weisman uses this grim tale to set up his thought experiment. "[L]ately, we have had a creeping sense of what Ana Maria means," he writes. "Even if we're not driven to cannibalism, might we, too, face terrible choices as we skulk towards the future?" Weisman admits that we can't know -- but he believes we should engage with the question. And he offers his thought experiment as a kind of creative spur to such engagement, a way of opening and focusing our minds. By approaching the end of humanity from this unique angle, as a given, Weisman succeeds in throwing the spotlight on the earth itself -- and invests us in her fate. His thought experiment is so intellectually fascinating, so oddly playful, that it escapes
categorizing and clichés -- in particular that earnest moralizing that can make environmental screeds so predictable. Written as if by a ompassionate and curious observer on another planet, his book restores a sense of wonder not just to one little piece of the cosmos, but to the human race whose amazing deeds have transformed it,
and whose equally monumental folly now threatens it.
"The World Without Us" taps into one of our deepest, if only furtively acknowledged, pleasures: imagining destruction.
Book review Salon.com

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Turning the US army against Americans


It was an odd little story, tucked well inside the front section of this past Sunday's New York Times.

An antiwar activist in the state of Washington had been exposed as an undercover informant for the US army, stationed at massive Fort Lewis, south of Tacoma. And in one of those Kafkaesque twists for which our government is renowned, the army is now investigating itself to determine how such an arrangement came to pass.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php? ... leId=14690

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Transgressive Desire

Repossessing the body: transgressive desire in "Carmilla" and Dracula - vampire story retold with masculine themes added


In "Carmilla" Le Fanu chronicles the development of a vampiric relationship between two women, in which it becomes increasingly clear that Laura's and Carmilla's lesbian relationship defies the traditional structures of kinship by which men regulate the exchange of women to promote male bonding. On the contrary, Le Fanu allows Laura and Carmilla to usurp male authority and to bestow themselves on whom they please, completely excluding male participation in the exchange of women, normative as discussed by Claude Levi-Strauss and more recently by Gayle Rubin and Eve Sedgwick.(3) Stoker later responded to Le Fanu's narrative of female empowerment by reinstating male control in the exchange of women. In effect, Dracula seeks to repossess the female body for the purposes of male pleasure and exchange, and to correct the reckless unleashing of female desire in Le Fanu's "Carmilla."

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m ... _18981386/

... in Freud's first writings and in his wish to become an extraordinary hero. As early as The Interpretation of Dreams (1900a, ch. 3), the idea of transgression is contrasted with that of an unsatisfied desire able to reach satisfaction in spite of everything that might restrain and prohibit it, via the detour of the dream. Like sociologists, psychoanalysts find that every law is accompanied by criminal infractions of that law—infractions which the law highlights and describes. Like ethnologists, psychoanalysts also find that the strictest laws are always accompanied by rituals.
http://www.answers.com/topic/transgression

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The Monkey's Paw
Acid Abortion Adultery

Loeb Leopold Nietzsche


http://www.google.com/search?q=loeb+leo ... urceid=ie7

I wasn't no superman
Just a creep

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http://heuretics.wordpress.com/2008/11/ ... -accident/






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Wartorn 1861-2010" New Doc Chronicles Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder from Civil War to Iraq & Afghanistan

http://www.democracynow.org/2010/11/10/ ... 10_new_doc

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Corporate Profits Were the Highest on Record Last Quarter

''The nation’s workers may be struggling, but American companies just had their best quarter ever.

NYTIMESDOTCOM

American businesses earned profits at an annual rate of $1.659 trillion in the third quarter, according to a Commerce Department report released Tuesday. That is the highest figure recorded since the government began keeping track over 60 years ago, at least in nominal or noninflation-adjusted terms.

http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/nationa ... 10_2nd.pdf

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Want to Be Happier? Pay Attention!
Soren Gordhamer.Soren is the author of Wisdom 2.0 (HarperOne, 2009).
Posted: November 26, 2010 11:59 AM



The Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh is well known for asking his students, "Why do you wash the dishes?"

If you think it is to get the dishes clean, you are mistaken.

Researchers are slowly coming to the same conclusion.

...what mattered more was not what people were doing but rather the degree of attention that they were bringing to what they were doing.



"Whatever people were doing, ..., they tended to be happier if they focused on the activity instead of thinking about something else. In fact, whether and where their minds wandered was a better predictor of happiness than what they were doing."

"the location of the body is much less important than the location of the mind, and that the former has surprisingly little influence on the latter."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/soren-gor ... 84808.html

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AMERICA has entered one of its periods of historical madness, but this is the worst I can remember:

The combination of compliant US media and vested corporate interests is once more ensuring that a debate that should be ringing out in every town square is confined to the loftier columns of the East Coast press: see page A27 if you can find and understand it

John le Carré January 2003

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The Problem with Zen boyfriends


"Klesha attack"


"You,, you shilelagh shiksa you!"

TSAstroturf: The Washington Lobbyists and Koch-Funded Libertarians Behind the TSA Scandal
http://www.thenation.com/article/156647 ... sa-scandal

Does anyone else sense something strange is going on with the apparently spontaneous revolt against the TSA? This past week, the media turned an "ordinary guy," 31-year-old Californian John Tyner, who blogs under the pseudonym "Johnny Edge," into a national hero after he posted a cell phone video of himself defending his liberty against the evil government oppressors in charge of airport security.

While this issue is certainly important—and offensive—to Americans, we are nonetheless skeptical about how and why this story turned into a national movement. In fact, this whole campaign feels a bit like déjà-vu: As the first reporters to expose the Tea Party as an Astroturf PR campaign funded by FreedomWorks and Koch-related front groups back in February, 2009, we see many of the same elements driving the current "rebellion" against the TSA: Koch-related libertarians, Washington lobbyists and PR operatives posing as "ordinary citizens," and suspicious fake-grassroots outrage relentlessly promoted in the same old right-wing echo chamber.

The Rick Santelli 'Tea Party' Controversy: Article Kicks Up a Media Dust Storm

Debate heats up: How much are Rick Santelli and the Tea Party protests he inspired part of a project orchestrated by right-wing groups?

I hope that the president and the final stimulus plan succeed." So writes CNBC pundit Rick Santelli in a recent public statement, one that's very much at odds with his on-screen persona as an instigator of a right-wing protest movement against Barack Obama's economic recovery plans. This is the man whose outraged rant against Obama's plan for distressed homeowners was viewed millions of times on CNBC.com and YouTube and sparked a backlash in the form of "Tea Parties" across the United States.

"We publish an investigation into the fake-grassroots "Tea Party" protest campaign underwritten by rich Republican right-wing interests, exposing Rick Santelli's role as the launch event MC, and three days later, Santelli is bitch-slapped down by his bosses, he's canceled from the Daily Show, forced to issue a Bukharin-like confession, FreedomWorks confesses that it was behind it from the start, as we wrote, and every media outlet in the country from the New York Times on down is writing up the scandal.

"Yes, it's a victory for us and for the forces of independent journalism. Sure, we're doing a dirty chicken dance in the end zone now. But the truth is, it's a bitter victory, because we've also been forced to confront the awfully familiar face of America's own version of the Soviet Union at work:
http://www.alternet.org/media/129656

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The Lonely Robot

The way of all Flesh

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A Fable From The Age Of Science

The Trap part 3 We Will Force You To Be Free

Bill Hicks

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Adam Curtis: The Trap- We Will Force You To Be Free
25 March, 2007 — RickB

The third and final part of The Trap:-

What happened when the western allied forces spread their ideas of freedom around the world.-

Sunday 9pm BBC2.

Or this odd review from the Radio Times-

To make matters worse, after the cerebral thrill-rides of the first two programmes, tonight’s film gets a bit bogged down, though the climax – an analysis of what went wrong in Iraq – is scathing and utterly persuasive. Adam Curtis still comes out with sweeping pronouncements, so cheerless they’re almost funny. My favourite tonight is when he says of politicians, “Seeking to protect us from danger, they led us into a world without meaning.” Wow. Discuss.-

http://tenpercent.wordpress.com/2007/03 ... o-be-free/

The Trap Part 1 - F*k You Buddy

The Trap part 2 The Lonely Robot

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 1028154810

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define:Kamarupa
(Sanskrit). Metaphysically, and in our esoteric philosophy, it is the subjective form created through the mental and physical desires and thoughts in connection with things of matter, by all sentient beings, a form which survives the death of their bodies.
http://www.experiencefestival.com/sansk ... -_q/page/2

thumos definition
(Gr.) A Pythagorean and Platonic term; applied to an aspect of the human soul, to denote its passionate Kamarupic condition: -- almost equivalent to the Sanskrit word tamas: "the quality of darkness," and probably derived from the latter.
www.theosociety.org/pasadena/key/key-glo3.htm