Friday, December 07, 2007

we each kow

In nearly all circumstances we each know precisely where not to look in order to have our worldview remain unthreatened and intact.

Derrick Jensen

Dec 7, 2007 11:17:31 AM | ear candy

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what does it mean The first agenda of the commercial media is to sell fear, because it breeds insecurity, and then consumer culture offers us any number of ways to buy our way back to feeling secure, however temporarily. We're fed theses images of what we're supposed to look like: [white] pouting lips, pert breasts, buns of steel, everlasting youth...It's not possible to internalize again and again these images of what's beautiful and what's desirable without having that affect your self-perception. And it alters the very foundation of your personality. It distorts your sexuality. What does it mean that so many of us are willing to give up so much of our power, voluntarily and systematically, to strangers? What does it mean that the most private parts of ourselves--how we are in relationship to ourselves and to those we love--have been designed in great measure by those who have no interest in us other than that we feel insecure enough to buy their products? Kalle Lasn - Adbusters
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what to do Dissonance does not always lead to action, nor even to understanding. It is just as possible--if not more likely--to resist the understanding itself than it is to resist the injustice. Not only is it feasible, and for many, tempting, to retreat from the dissonance back into denial, it is just as possible to turn one's anger inward as it is to turn it where it belongs. Derrick Jensen

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