An Egyptian anti-government activist kisses a riot police officer following clashes in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Jan. 28, 2011. Tens of thousands of anti-government protesters poured into the streets of Egypt Friday, stoning and confronting police who fired back with rubber bullets and tear gas in the most violent and chaotic scenes yet in the challenge to President Hosni Mubarak’s 30-year rule. See also photos of women during the Egyptian revolution.

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This is people power. Fuck tyrants and dictators. Free Egypt.

We begin life with the world presenting itself to us as it is. Someone — our parents, teachers, analysts — hypnotizes us to “see” the world and construe it in the “right” way. These others label the world, attach names and give voices to the beings and events in it, so that thereafter, we cannot read the world in any other language or hear it saying other things to us. The task is to break the hypnotic spell, so that we become undeaf, unblind and multilingual, thereby letting the world speak to us in new voices and write all its possible meanings in the new book of our existence. Be careful in your choice of hypnotists. 

— Sidney Jourard 

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Malalai Joya is an Afghan politician who has been called “the bravest woman in Afghanistan.” As an elected member of the Wolesi Jirga from Farah province, she has publicly denounced the presence of what she considers warlords and war criminals in the parliament. She is an outspoken critic of both the Taliban as well as the present Afghan government ofKarzai and its western supporters.

shirtoid:

Plotting Your Heart available at ThinkGeek

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strawberrytelle:

• Being unsure of how someone feels about you.
• Feeling like they are mad at you.
• Being misunderstood by people you care about.
• Being judged by people you care about.
• Feeling like you lost something that was never yours.
• Feeling like you’re doing too much.
• Thinking you aren’t doing enough.
• Not knowing if you should say something.
• Worried about what they’ll think if you do say it.
• Feeling like you care more than they do.

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‎Somewhere someone is thinking of you. Someone is calling you an angel. This person is using celestial colors to paint your image. Someone is making you into a vision so beautiful that it can only live in the mind. Someone is thinking of the way your breath escapes your lips when you are touched.

How your eyes close and your jaw tightens with concentration as you give pleasure a home. These thoughts are saving a life somewhere right now. In some airless apartment on a dark, urine stained, whore lined street, someone is calling out to you silently and you are answering without even being there. So crystalline. So pure. Such life saving power when you smile. You will never know how you have cauterized my wounds. So sad that we will never touch. How it hurts me to know that I will never be able to give you everything I have.

— Henry Rollins

academicreading:

By Michel-Rolph Trouillot, in Recapturing Anthropology.

For Rousseau, as for More and Defoe, the savage is an argument for a particular kind of utopia. For Iselin and Meiners, as for Swift and Hobbes in other times and contexts, it is an argument against it… The nineteenth century blurred the most visible signs of this thematic correspondence by artificially separating utopia and the savage… From then on, utopia and the savage evolved as two distinguishable slots. Kant had set the philosophical grounds for this separation by laying his own teleology without humor or fiction while moving way from the Naturinstink Nineteenth-century French positivists, in turn, derided utopias as chimeric utopianisms. 

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imetagenius:

Minister’s Treehouse, Crossville, TN 

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danielholter:

9-bits:

Designer Filip Chudzinski is working on an awesome data visualization of the iPod and iTunes history.

Wow.

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