EMMYdiocracy
Mediocracy is a situation which can occur in a democracy in which mediocre people prevail. The society is then subordinated to a quasi-egalitarian ideology in which words and ideas are redefined by mediocre people, to be convenient for mediocre people. Russian novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was a frequent critic of mediocracy in contemporary Western countries. || This where the tag cloud goes if the tag cloud loads:
I found the source! Blind Leaders by Hellen Keller (via toxicslime)
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First as Tragedy, Then as Farce: Cultural Capitalism as presented by Slavoj Zizek
Watch this before sending me death threats about my criticism of humanitarian organizations.
This.
tl;dr It’s immoral to support a system that requires charity. It’s better to just implement a system where things that require charity cease to exist.
This is a really great, really important video. Watch it all the way through. The narrator isn’t saying charities are bad, PER SE, just that funding charities only treats the symptoms of the evils of the world — not the diseases. It also touches on slacktivism (Tom’s shoes, anyone?) and the inherent Sisyphean nature of putting band-aids on poverty. -Jess
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Niue, a self-governed island of New Zealand, has Pokemon on their legal tender coins.
More info here: http://www.pobjoy.com/encyclopaedia/section.php?xSec=165
I want to go to there.
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This is the best post in the Once-ler fandom. Just admit it.
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p much sums up how I feel about this Lorax business
mother fucking…
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