original artwork by stacy goetting “Dino Raawwr”
original artwork by stacy goetting “Gypsy in Repose”
Militarism is an imperial catastrophe that has produced a military-industrial complex and national security state and warped the country’s priorities and stature (as with the immoral drones, dropping bombs on innocent civilians). Materialism is a spiritual catastrophe, promoted by a corporate media multiplex and a culture industry that have hardened the hearts of hard-core consumers and coarsened the consciences of would-be citizens. Clever gimmicks of mass distraction yield a cheap soulcraft of addicted and self-medicated narcissists. Racism is a moral catastrophe, most graphically seen in the prison industrial complex and targeted police surveillance in black and brown ghettos rendered invisible in public discourse. Arbitrary uses of the law — in the name of the “war” on drugs — have produced, in the legal scholar Michelle Alexander’s apt phrase, a new Jim Crow of mass incarceration. And poverty is an economic catastrophe, inseparable from the power of greedy oligarchs and avaricious plutocrats indifferent to the misery of poor children, elderly citizens and working people.
Cornel West (via azspot)
i beg myself get me out of this house out of my skin take me somewhere far away from the walls i’m trapped in i can offer nothing in return you don’t have to stay with me just leave me somewhere stranded so i can be myself again. these clothes i wear for them have worn far too thin and my horns i fear are showing again. do i want anything i thought that i might? i’m mourning my waistline and cant feel anything inside me but fright, and this atmosphere of prudence and judgment is rubbing away my insight and i see nothing on the horizon with which to free me from my plight and i am dooming my child to this plain existence and all the hell that comes with this as I become what i hate night by night.
break dancing turtle <3
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