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Through with oligarchy? Ready to get the money out of politics? Want real progressives in office who will work for the people and not the donors? Want to help grow The Squad?
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Through with oligarchy? Ready to get the money out of politics? Want real progressives in office who will work for the people and not the donors? Want to help grow The Squad?
You say the hill's too steep to climb,
Chiding!
You say you'd like to see me try,
Climbing!
You pick the place and I'll choose the time
And I'll climb
The hill in my own way
just wait a while, for the right day
And as I rise above the treeline and the clouds
I look down hear the sound of the things you said today
Fearlessly the idiot faced the crowd, smiling
Merciless, the magistrate turns 'round, frowning
and who's the fool who wears the crown
Go down in your own way
And everyday is the right day
And as you rise above the fearlines in his frown
You look down
Hear the sound of the faces in the crowd" ....Pink Floyd
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The universe is an extension of the nervous sytem and the nervous system is made-up of the same stuff as the universe.
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Live for today and not tomorrow
Live for the Now and whats here
Stop living for what maybe or what may never come
Live for the day already here
Recently a portion of the structure actually collapsed. I am not sure if this segment was filmed before or after that collapse. I am hoping that they can save the structure before it's lost forever.
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Allan Glenn. 1984-2005 RIP
Under no circumstances should Quentin Tarantino be allowed to befoul Star Trek.
That is a fact and I wish they still made it and also I wish that's what this thread was really about.
WHEN DID THEY STOP MAKING IT???? Also, I had an even shoot for a local event but it was at another retail store so we couldn't get it cleared through corporate. I got a makeover though.
Ok, I've only watched 10 seconds so far. It was my intention to get all elitist about whatever music was considered 'creepy.' However, it's Godspeed You! Black Emperor so that's ok.
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Much of MADNESS, and more of SIN, and HORROR the soul of the plot.
Awesome, awesome blog entry and pics of the abandoned quarantine hospital, coal furnaces and more on North Brother Island in the East River, New York City. Read the whole thing because the island and its facilities are rich with history. Typhoid Mary was kept there!
The photographs are nice but the history of the place is what makes it compelling. The involuntary incarcerations, the General Slocum tragedy, Typhoid Mary... this place has everything but axe murders, an Italian count and a hidden treasure.
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Much of MADNESS, and more of SIN, and HORROR the soul of the plot.
He makes a good point. As a native of the Detroit suburbs who has lived and worked in the city, I honestly think much of the ruins phenomena is psychological self-preservation. For years I drove every day through the destruction of the old Chrysler Jefferson plant and the neighborhoods that surrounded it on my way to work. The company I worked for was just the far side of the construction/destruction zone.
Over those months and years I found myself finding beauty in the destruction and a thrill in getting to see through the holes into parts of the building that had been hidden. After they had finished building the new plant and it became clear many of the houses had been razed just to leave a buffer zone around the plant, I enjoyed watching the return of animals and plants to those areas. Reeds, red-wing blackbirds and pheasants became regular sights of my walk once I got rid of my car and started taking the bus to work.
While the wildlife was objectively beautiful, I was more than aware that people had lost their homes for very little money and nothing had been done with the property. The rest of my enjoyment was definitely a need to put a positive spin on a daily eyesore. Sure it's good to see beauty in destruction when you can, but that doesn't mean we aren't aware that it would be better for these things to be maintained properly. And as Detroiters we are also aware of the corruption, racism and bad judgment that underlie much these ruins. Simply put, finding beauty in destruction is nice but I'd much rather see beauty and construction for a change.
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"freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter much. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order."
- Justice Robert Jackson, West Virginia State Board of Ed. v. Barnette
I find it interesting, Portland was for a time of my youth (mostly the 1980s when the economy collapsed) a spot of much urban decay. I sort of prefer that to the razing of structures and the building of whole new neighborhoods. I had a history connected to the people and places they inhabited that now is completely transformed, often abruptly.
Had I been able to watch it decay more slowly, I might have not resented the new so much. Fucking "Pearl district."
Also the dislocation, mostly forcible of people in single residency occupancies (old pay by the week hotels mostly) has led to an amazing amount of homelessness here, which was orchestrated by the ruling families of Portland. Now they are all bought and consumed (the families' businesses) by even larger corporations.
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