tags: colonial mentality
2001
March
- 2001 Mar 26
- Procrastination
Redesigned again, if you noticed. I'm willling to do anything as long as it's not what I'm supposed to be doing. I'm waiting for my brother and my sister to come and visit me… due to my bizarre reasoning (M:G's song "No Sense of Reason" is now playing through my head…), they are arriving before I take my exam. Because of my full-grown phobia of airplanes, I keep imagining horrible things, but what can I do, life is like that, you really just have to keep your fingers crossed.
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2003
January
- 2003 Jan 24
- America the Beautiful
We hold these Truths to be self-evident: that all men (and women) are created equal.
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2007
October
- 2007 Oct 9
- corruption and the developing world
There is this punk on the Alibata Yahoo Group that I find myself arguing with whenever I participate in a discussion. Calling himself Malachi, he uses tactics that are reminiscent of the average troll. But for some reason, people never call him out for it.
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- comings and goings
You can’t know where you’re going if you don’t know where you came from.
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—Unknown
December
- 2007 Dec 22
- misunderstanding modern medicine
I have finally found a synonym for my embryonic philosophy tha I've been calling "The Art of Not Wanting." Akin to Hindu and Buddhist ideals (where desire brings about suffering),voluntary simplicity is a lifestyle that eschews the excesses of the modern and post-modern era. It has significant bearing on the contemporary environmentalist movement as well as with its intersection with Neomarxism.
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2016
January
- 2016 Jan 19
- The Perpetuation of White Supremacy
Despite the well-documented existence of systemic/institutionalized racism that exists as a superset of overt racism, many naive antagonists still retort with "anyone can be racist regardless of skin color" as a way to deflect criticism of inherently racist structures.
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