“The contrast between private opulence and public squalor on most of our panorama is now too obvious to be denied. Yet we still spend per capita almost as much on advertising to multiply the private wants of our people as we do on education to enable them to seek a fuller, wiser, and more satisfying civic existence. The face we present to the world, especially through our mass circulation media, is one of the individual or family as a high consumption unit with minimal social responsibilities- father happily drinking his favorite beer, mother dreamily fondling soft garments newly rinsed in a wonderful new detergent, the children gaily calling from the barbecue pit for a famous sauce for their steak. With the supermarket as our temple and the singing commercial as our litany, are we likely to fire the world with an irresistible vision of America’s exalted purposes and inspiring way of life?”
-Adlai, 1960
Anyone come across any mind-blowing Eisenhower quotations lately?
peterfeld:
America’s real wrong turn was in not electing him. Everything since has just been the aftermath.
this makes me happy. it means little, will accomplish nothing. defacing a bp gas station sign will not force corporations into acceptable behavior patterns. politically motivated graffiti will not break the chains of graft and incompetence that bind our democracy. no amount of cleverly applied paint will save our ecosystem, nor will it protect those on the working end of our economy who have built lives around the bountiful and sustainable gifts it provides. the whole thing makes me ill, and i haven’t digested an ounce of corexit. the physical devastation saddens me. trying to come to grips with the future ramifications reduces me to levels of fear and bewilderment that one associates with a child during a thunderstorm. then comes the realization that all of this was preventable. that there are human beings this devoid of morality, this hubristic and greedy. then i see something like this and i know that somewhere in this crass, clever and creative nation, a smoking hot hipster girl is swooning over this simple act of civil disobedience. that someone’s misplaced but justifiable rage has ignited in her a passion, an all-consuming desire to get naked with whoever was brave enough to lob that can of petroleum-based paint. girl, i reblogged it on tumblr. i’m just sayin.
defendneworleans:
claytoncubitt:
Faran Krentcil, updated BP gas station sign on Lafayette, NYFC (via Karen)
tomorrow is a big day, i gotta do what bob says. i love all my blipeeps (and i won’t stop using that word til it catches on) !
i have no idea who made this video. it is awesome. i am “broadcasting” it to tumblr because it is so good
for my wardies, coworkies, and of course, for the ladies. goodnight
the synthesizers make me think that somewhere a young william peterson is cracking a case.
one of the creepiest lyrics all time: “i prowl around the interstate/ checkin’ up on trucker bait”
