Amusing Ourselves to Death by Stuart McMillen (May 2009)
Aldous Huxley (Author: “Brave New World”) vs. George Orwell (Author: Nineteen Eighty-Four
This is really annoying me. Why are people still insisting books are somehow more ‘intellectual’ than tv shows or movies. I’ve seen films that have made think and consider the world just as much as any book and read books as bad as any crappy reality show. The elitist concept that newer = worse really needs to go die.
We live in a culture that inundates us with the internet, movies, music, television, and cell phones. You can’t go to an auto repair shop without there being a television in the waiting room; same with a hospital. You can’t walk through an empty grocery store without music being played on the intercoms. Ask yourself this; when is the last time you were alone. I mean completely alone, no internet, no movies, no music, no television, and no cell phone? A time when no other human can be seen or heard? Alone time is time for reflection, time to think, time to rejuvenate, to become alive again. There is no time like time alone. It’s a necessity.
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| — | TBV (via wordpainting) |
Inside each of us is a gift waiting to be shared - a song to sing, a speech to deliver, a life-changing message to impart. Don’t wait for perfection, focus on experience. It’s time to step up to the mic and deliver.
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| — | Cheryl Richardson (via venuschild) |
Ugly is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion. A matter of taste, a whim, an eye, a beholder, an opinion, a spin, light crossing the frame, paint, projection. The moment. Context.
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| — | Margaret Cho (via theseasonofthewitch) |
