"History is very much tangible. It isn't about who shot who during some Franco-Prussia War . Its what happened two minutes ago. "

Fuck you Jim Rogers for saying India won't last the next 30 or 40 years.

"[My educators] did not pretend to believe that everyone is educable, for they knew, on the contrary, that very few are educable, very few indeed. They saw this as a fact of nature, like the fact that few are six feet tall. [...] They accepted the fact that there are practicable ranges of intellectual and spiritual experience which nature has opened to some and closed to others."

Alfred Nock. (sentiments, which I share- in some slight regard of affinity to)

"If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself." -

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. ( Historian)

"The brevity of life, the failing of the senses, the numbness of indifference and unprofitable occupations allow us to know very little. And again and again swift oblivion, the thief of knowledge and the enemy of memory, makes a void of the mind, in the course of time, even what we learn we lose."

Nicholas Copernicus

Before facebook, what did we all do?

- Just wonder about other people. I guess.

What if my dreams are but short of reality? What if the pursuit of peace inside, is wasted by the inertia on the outer. Sinking into the heating one-ness of despair, how dark is that sorrow with which tainted i see the glass.

Do I brush off my time here, as a moth to the cinders flame?

I am calling out, oh Self of my heart,

such kindling loneliness.

Lucy Fischer

Adventures in the Skin Trade

" Only in Japan is tattooing an art; that is, only here has the craft of pigmentation become so skilled that it becomes an act of creation; and only here does this have the artistic dimensions of a long consecutive history ..."

How Investments and sketchy companies fucked us over

A response to Goldman Sach's article in the Time's online today
-Catch the full article here: http://READ.im/cfU

Michael Skorupski wrote:

Never mentioned was GS’s role, forcefully lobbied by Robert Rubin and Lawrence Summers of the Clinton administration, in the repealing of the Glass-Steagall act in 1999, enacted during the Great Depression to limit the financial power of ‘too-big-to-fail’ institutions by separating investment banks from commercial banks. As a result of their efforts, GS thus became ‘too-big-to-fail’, encouraging moral hazard and leveraging ever more risky investments, knowing that they would always be bailed out by the US taxpayer should their investments go sour. Nor was mentioned the curbing of predatory lending practices that had been on the agenda of most US state legislatures, only to be vetoed by Bush, acquiescing to GS lobbying – not difficult as Bush’s then Treasury Secretary Paulson was also an ex-GS CEO. The latter led to the sub-prime mess, and the former to the toxic waste of mortgage-backed securities. It is unbelievable that your writer had nothing to say about GS lobbying Congress and government, spending hundreds of millions in bribe money, which led us directly into the present economic crisis - getting worse by the month.
GS is making its nth fortune by engineering a massive transfer of wealth from the US and UK to China and emerging markets – borrowing at negative interest rates in the US and UK, and then investing in production and commodities in China and emerging markets. That’s where the bailout cash is flowing to, as that’s where are found the greatest returns. This money will never come back. The recipients can thank the US and UK taxpayer for being history’s greatest mugs. Future generations will look back and ask themselves what drugs were present generations on to allow government and the likes of GS, earning exorbitant commissions, to get away with such astronomical looting?