December 2011
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November 2011
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“My success as a smaller brand relative to huge fast fashion brands focuses on…...”
– Jun Takahashi (via keepsdiary)
“What you see is a lot of pretty people, a lot of good looking people making...”
– David Berman (of the Silver Jews) in a previously unpublished interview with David Malitz (via breathnaigh)
Mother Jones magazine on Tumblr: Also, in all this... →
motherjones:
…and who’s more in-touch with “real people,” it’s striking how all the discussion centers on the consumer, and none of it considers, for just a minute, the retail worker: the hourly-paid, benefit-lacking working stiff today who doesn’t get that holiday between Thanksgiving and the weekend off, but…
gaws:
Trouble Man | Marvin Gaye
One of my...
“Life is nothing until it is lived; but it is yours to make sense of, and the...”
– Jean-Paul Sartre (via sorakeem)
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Jeff Staple
Q+A With Noam Chomsky at Occupy Boston
Q: What about the ruling class in America? How likely is it that they’ll have an open fascist system here?
Chomsky: I think it’s very unlikely frankly. They don’t have the force. About a century ago, in the freest countries in the world, Britain and the United Sates at the time, the dominant classes came to understand that they can’t control the population by force any longer. Too much freedom had been won by struggles like these, and they realized it. It’s discussed in their literature. They recognize that they’re going to have to shift their tactics to control of attitudes and beliefs instead of just the cudgel. It can’t do what it used to do. You have to control attitudes and beliefs. In fact that’s when the public relations industry began. It began in the United States and England. The free countries where you had to control beliefs and attitudes, to induce consumerism, to induce passivity, apathy and distraction. It’s a barrier, but it’s a lot easier to overcome than torture and the Gestapo. I don’t think the circumstances are any longer there to institute anything like what we call fascism.
