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We live in a world where we are constantly being reminded that we must pay attention, though the things we are being asked to pay attention to–political corruption, the erosion of human rights, climate change, systemic racism–are all, ironically, things that cannot be combatted solely by knowing a lot about them. The result of paying attention is either stunning yourself into paralyzing anxiety or sinking deep into depression or rage, or both.

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Ofc you haven't heard of him (lemmy.ml)

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You're a rich white kid from the suburbs. Sure man just fly away, forget about everyone else down here. You help me take down x, you help real people with real lives. Think about that next time you're fighting some stupid elephant man or whatever

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"Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it." - Mark Twain (lemmy.ml)

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''Poverty is the worst form of violence' - gandhi (lemmy.ml)

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"if you're a homeless man the dirt you sit on is worth more than ones life. Its pretty bad out there." (lemmy.ml)

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"Even snakes are afraid of snakes" - Steven Wright, probably (lemmy.ml)

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"It's important to do as the Buddha suggests: focus on an imaginary friend and try and figure out what this friend would think about what we're doing." -textsynth.com (lemmy.ml)

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"This new era of the iPhone will be an Orwellian nightmare, where we are all controlled by the smartphone." (lemmy.ml)

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generated by https://textsynth.com/

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You see, there are still faint glimmers of civilization left in this barbaric slaughterhous that was once known as humanity. Rudeness is merely an expression of fear. (lemmy.ml)

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Monsieur Gustave H. The Grand Budapest Hotel

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Worry prevents individuals from fully facing their fears. (lemmy.ml)

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Worry prevents individuals from fully facing their fears. Thus, it rewards the worrier in the short term by reducing their negative reaction to feared stimuli.

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"I demand whether all wars, bloodshed and misery came not upon the creation when one man endeavored to be a lord over another? ... (lemmy.ml)

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"I demand whether all wars, bloodshed and misery came not upon the creation when one man endeavored to be a lord over another? ... And whether this misery shall not remove ... when all the branches of mankind shall look upon the earth as one common treasury to all." - Gerrard Winstanley, The New Law of Righteousness, 1649

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Penal affairs [are] a confrontation coded by 'civilization.' (lemmy.ml)

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"La Phalange analyses penal affairs as a confrontation coded by 'civilization', the great crimes not as monstrosities, but as the fatal return and revolt of what is repressed, the minor illegalities not as the necessary margins of society, but as a rumbling from the midst of the battle-field." - Foucault, Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison