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Pursuit of Consciousness

Marine Corps Veteran going through therapy and trying to put joy and happiness out into the world.

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After CUNY Law Banned Their Students From Their Commencement Speech After Having Two Consecutive Speeches

After CUNY Law banned their students from their commencement speech after having two consecutive speeches in the preceding years highlight the call for Palestinian liberation, the students took on the responsibility to reclaim their right to fight in solidarity for the oppressed. "We don't need their mic, we are the mic!" The graduating students erupted in their chant for Palestine.

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Ai Weiwei, “Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn,” 1995

An astonishingly irreverent piece of work. This triptych features the artist dropping a Han Dynasty (206 BC - 220 AD) in three photographs.

When questioned about the work, he suggested that the piece was about industry: “[The urn] was industry then and is industry now.” His statement, therefore, was that the urn was just a cheap pot two thousand years ago, and the reverence we feel toward it is artificial. One critic wrote: “In other words, for all the aura of preciousness acquired by the accretion of time (and skillful marketing), this vessel is the Iron Age equivalent of a flower pot from K-Mart and if one were to smash the latter a few millennia from now, would it be an occasion for tears?”

However, the not-so-subtle political undertone is clear. This piece was about destroying the notion that everything that is old is good…including the traditions and cultures of China. For Ai Weiwei, this triptych represents a moment in which culture suddenly shifts (sometimes violently), shattering the old and outdated to make room for the new.

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also that a lot of crime is the result of a collective society-wide failure to support and help one another and live as an actual society poverty despair loneliness desperation trauma: all things that can lead to so-called “crime”—all symptoms of a lack of actual society on top of all that if you can afford an expensive attorney you can get out of a lot of things that those who can't won't colonization corporate greed

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Don't fall into despair!!!!!

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palestine 🍉 all eyes on rafah all eyes on palestine save rafah from river to sea palestine will be free free plaestine free gaza

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