February 2012
56 posts
Poetry. All the answers you need. →
Beethoven's 9th Symphony
Beethoven’s 9th Symphony is just one of my favorite musical creations. It’s so damn optimistic, and Leonard Bernstein conducting in Berlin in 1989 to celebrate the fall of the wall, where he replaces “joy” with “freedom” (“Freude” mit “Freiheit”) is simply wonderful.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ysft4y0-Djc
“… the mass of the population do not actively support capitalist ideology; rather, they implicitly ‘consent’ to the present system as the natural, normal state of affairs because they have been disabled, in one way or another, from conceiving of an alternative…”
-G.Ingham (2008) Capitalism
The Universe is Going to Catch You.
History. →
“Cautiously, I allowed myself to feel good at times. I found moments of peace in...”
– Need. Less.
Charles Bukowski, Let it Enfold You (via devilsg0spel)
“‘Who are you really, wanderer?’–
and the answer you have to give
no matter how...”
– Wanderer.
William Stafford | excerpt from “A Story That Could Be True” (via evoketheforms)
“… the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our...”
– Eco.
Umberto Eco (via nevver)
