Absurd Grace

This would make a good head wrap!

Amanda Palmer: The art of asking (by TEDtalksDirector)

We’re growing a garden in our suburban front yard. While one might be tempted to worry over theft, I am not.

Quite the opposite, really. I intend that we will post a sign that says, “Need a tomato, take a tomato. Want a tomato, leave a donation.”

Changing the community one step at a time.

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I just can’t wrap my brain around…

There’s this addiction I have — compulsion — to read the online news. I have my favorites… local 9news.com, then dailymail.uk, cnn.com, msnbc.com…

And I realize that they’re all owned by the same people.
It’s all entertainment.

Usually I like the politics and crime sections and entertainment parts the best.

But there’s no line anymore between fiction and reality. We’ve allowed ourselves to become entertained by politics so much that neither celebrities nor the president are indistinguishable. The ideas we had for Hollywood are playing out in our executive cabinets. We’re a miserable, false, made-for-reality-TV group of zombies.

Mmmm brains… but the last thing we crave is brains. We want instant gratification. Lip service. lies. We want to feel something. We want to be moved to emotion. We want to know that our country is donating $300 million to Syria when our homeless and indigents grow exponentially.

We have no money, we are broke, yet the guilt over unpaid debts is only a civil problem. But let us forget about those things. Money is real, goddammit, and the stock market is a reasonable gamble when the livelihoods of the masses is dependent on the psychology of those who make investments.

Is this really REAL?!

Secret courts make secret rules and why the fuck have we not heard about secret courts and who commissioned them? Oh, that’s right. I did. You, another tax payer did. But you’re not to know what sort of terrorist crimes you’re committing. You’re not supposed to realize that YOU are the person of whom you should be afraid.

I just don’t understand why no one else can see this.

Why our illusion is crumbling and no one’s speaking up.

What are we? And why are we so damn silent?

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The news on CNN is so surreal that I’m questioning again whether or not any
of this is real. I feel disjointed and disconnected and as though it would
be far greater fun to simply sit here and expand my awareness. It is
lonely here in this play pretend world.

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