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Scrolling tumblr.com on my iPhone….

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“I was after what I couldn’t find at work or in what people call the inner life: the buzz from a certain excess.”

– Roberto Bolaño, “The Return”

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man of mystery

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Protesters against the war in Vietnam gather outside the Democratic headquarters during the 1968 national convention

via reddit

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Oprah inadvertently explaining the hegelian dialectic on super soul sunday

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The celebrity, the spectacular representation of a living human being, embodies this banality by embodying the image of a possible role. Being a star means specializing in the seemingly lived: the star is the object of identification with the shallow seeming life that has to compensate for the fragmented productive specializations which are actually lived… [Celebrities] embody the inaccessible result of social labor by dramatizing its byproducts magically projected above it as its goal: power and vacations, decision and consumption, which are the beginning and end of an undiscussed process. In one case state power personalizes itself as a pseudo-star; in another a star of consumption gets elected as a pseudo-power over the lived.

Guy Debord, Society of the Spectacle

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This is a soul just like mine, and we are going through this world together, and I am not afraid to smile because deep inside, this soul will understand.

John Maus (via lazypacific)

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Portrait, 1935, Rene Magritte

Medium: oil, canvas

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So my music taste is doing a 180 and the simplicity of pop music is making me see the potential for some real ass shit up in that form

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"The first phase of the domination of the economy over social life brought into the definition of all human realization is the obvious degradation of being into having. The present phase of total occupation of social life by the accumulated results of the economy leads to a generalized sliding of having into appearing, from which all actual 'having' must draw its immediate prestige and its ultimate function. At the same time all individual reality has become social reality directly dependent on social power shaped by it. It is allowed to appear to the extent that it is not."

Guy Debord, Society of the Spectacle

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page 385 c - these remind me of a series of lines on blue backgrounds I once drew as my brain melted from lack of human contact and the basic nutritional necessities of life.

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It’s totally okay to say “you know what, this isn’t making me happy” and to walk away from whatever or whoever is keeping you from the happiness you deserve