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Comment on Captain Kirk achy-breaky heart stuff by Felix Tannenbaum

Felix Tannenbaum — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:12:54 +0000

good luck and god speed.

Comment on Berlin Graffiti: Bald Buzzards, Boomers and humanity as a kindergarten by Andrew Flohr-Spence

Andrew Flohr-Spence — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 11:43:48 +0000

Actually…I have to revise this.
Humanity is doomed, no question, 100 %. It is nice that a few things have improved but most things are on the fast track back to oppression. We have failed to do anything about the climate…we are quickly driving most everything extinct, and we can’t even treat ourselves decent. Nope. No chance.

Comment on Berlin Graffiti: Bald Buzzards, Boomers and humanity as a kindergarten by Andrew Flohr-Spence

Andrew Flohr-Spence — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 17:37:10 +0000

That’s just it. I am being a bit “chicken little” but I think we are moving back toward such bad times. History repeats itself to a certain extent and it always starts with the economy, then countries start fighting, then womenand other ‘minorities’ lose their rights. I do think the “third world” in parts is better off now, but what worries me is the collapse of the West: the West will do everything it can to hold on to its power and I fear will go down swinging at the rest of the world. I just hope it doesn’t come to that…but we are also living in a time of exceptional media stupidity with I phones and crap…I’m not sure if it connects us or divides us more.

Comment on Berlin Graffiti: Bald Buzzards, Boomers and humanity as a kindergarten by Litchi

Litchi — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 11:27:46 +0000

When was it better though? In the 60′s when the world was this close to a nuclear apocalypse, when the third world was just one gigantic civil war, when husbands could beat up their wives and they couldn’t get a divorce? Or in the 30′s when fascism was rising all over Europe, jews and homosexuals were being detained and killed, and 90% of the world’s population was being oppressed in the colonies? Or in the 1900s when children worked in factories and people died by the age of 40 of tuberculosis? Or even before that?

I’m not saying, oh we have it good now and we should just shut up. But i’m just not sure that the myth of a golden age somewhere in the past is really helping us improve ourselves effectively. I do believe we can make the world better, zero doubt there. But i also think we have it good compared to many of our grandparents, and maybe we should acknowledge that a little more? Maybe it could help us take a more positive approach to the fight for a better world and maybe it could be more effective? I feel demonstrating more or less aggressively, complaining, and demanding change hasn’t brought about significant successes in the past. Compared to just implementing the very change we want, at our own little level, and hoping everyone follows.

Maybe it’s easy to say when you don’t live in the US where the wall street+government pressure is probably very very strong.

Comment on Berlin Graffiti: Bald Buzzards, Boomers and humanity as a kindergarten by Andrew Flohr-Spence

Andrew Flohr-Spence — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 06:38:43 +0000

of course…as Eqypt, Greece, and occupy Wall Street show…more and more people are paying attention…I just wish we would connect the dots and realize we are all struggling with the same problem: the greed of a few fat men at the top.

Comment on Berlin Graffiti: Bald Buzzards, Boomers and humanity as a kindergarten by Andrew Flohr-Spence

Andrew Flohr-Spence — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 06:35:02 +0000

it is both. I am very opitimistic…but we are living in very negative times. Mostly, as far as I can see the choices we are making right now will decide whether we slide into world war in the next decade, or if humanity evolves a little bit and starts working together…but those in power are making very wrong choices right now, and few people are paying attention.

Comment on Berlin Graffiti: Bald Buzzards, Boomers and humanity as a kindergarten by Litchi

Litchi — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 01:46:36 +0000

i cant tell if this post is very positive, or very negative…

Comment on keys to the place by Felix Tannenbaum

Felix Tannenbaum — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 21:26:20 +0000

dude.
awesome!!!!

Comment on Any given weekend (at least if the sun shines) by Felix Tannenbaum

Felix Tannenbaum — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 22:01:16 +0000

man, that looks great.

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