Think about that for a second...
This year was met with the public reality that Facebook was conducting emotional manipulation studies on almost a million of its users. It has all ready been proven that positive reinforcement from things like social media ticks and stuff like looking at a lovers profile drastically changes your levels of serotonin.
Even now in searching for the article- I can't find it. Try typing "how does social media affect your serotonin levels" and you get nothing but facts about depression and anger.
It takes a little while but you can find it.
What does this have to do with anything? Bianca, you're being paranoid.
Correct.
I am very worried.
History has been repeating itself. We had all ready been told growing up that some shit in the world is beyond peoples' control. But reading constantly about the ever increasing state of turmoil and injustice in America and how helpless I feel is enough to get me to write about the things I'm feeling as a way of i don't know... at least trying to deal with it logically in my head in hopes that one person might at the very least think about their actions daily and not readily accept the terms on which society has laid out for us to be "acceptable".
Don't get so distracted, is all I mean, and don't give in so readily to what you're fed, including this post.
Don't get so distracted, is all I mean, and don't give in so readily to what you're fed, including this post.
The inspiration for post come in two forms of time: past and present...
The present article that I read about is the recent shooting of Brown in St. Louis in which an un-armed 18 year old was shot by an SLPD officer eight consecutive times times while raising his hands in the air. The officer is currently on PAID leave and is being investigated to determine whether he is able to RETURN TO DUTY.... The Cheif Officer Belmar has not yet confirmed witnesses' statements that he had his hands in the air. The SLPD has yet to officially reveal the name of the deceased or the officer who shot him.
R.I.P. Michael Brown
The second source for my inspiration comes from a series of interviews from Firing Line with William Buckley. A then very conservative and somewhat judgemental William Buckley goes on to talk about topics I have interests in currently in these three clips with Chuck D. about racial profiling, Allen Ginsberg on Avant Garde in which Ginsberg talks about police brutality, and a panel discussion on "hippies" and the transition from the beat generation to the hippie movement with Jack Kerouac, some idiot sociologist, and Ed Sanders.
These were filmed well over 25 years ago... that's over a whole quarter century in which these issues are very much still alive and still in question. How is it that possible? How are we STILL dealing with this kind of bull shit and in that; accepting it?
Also one more thing I just have to get off my chest...
I am indeed for hippies. I am not, however, talking about the pseudo-ketamine driven burning man internet driven colloquial fake of a hippie who thinks that because they attend some corporate sponsored festival every year with a name like "earth beam awakening" or "psychedelo-douche-my-fur-boots gathering" in a garish neon costume getting their event filmed by oh i dont know? some company like TACO BELL and MTV..
Look- the only thing I'm trying to say, and I'm only going to say it once and never talk about it ever again, is that if your idea of a spiritual awakening is going to FUCKING BURNING MAN... then you seriously... SERIOUSLY need to reconsider your reality and maybe go through a few more revolutions.. the only way I could explain it to people is like this.. if you've been to asia.. burning man is like the full moon party of the west filled with stark commercialism, corporate sponsorship and exploitation, and factual entrapment by state and federal police forces (i.e. while in the kitchen at the flowershop in 2013 I overheard someone on the phone with someone driving back from burning man talking about how these naked lady cops were coercing people in admitting to having illegal drugs and then arresting them on the spot... that's FUCKED)
and oh yeah.. try to stay off the k... for reals... mushrooms are so much safer and better for you.
Allen Ginsberg
Chuck D.
The "Hippies"
*i am, as a human subject to my own hypocrisies. I just have a lot of questions to pose, and this is how I deal with it. Writing, reading (maybe too much), playing music, drawing, painting, and sucking at skating around.
PUBLIC ENEMY
Last rhetorical question- Who cares what I think?
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