Big Girls Don't Cry

Don't ya just loooooooooooove that song?

The 25 Lessons of Nonviolence

The following list is from Mark Kurlansky’s Non-violence: The History of a Dangerous Idea. While I think I need to know the context of some of the statements, I am intrigued. What do you think?

1). There is no proactive word for nonviolence.
2). Nations that build military forces as deterrents will eventually use them.
3). Practitioners of nonviolence are seen as enemies of the state.
4). Once a state takes over a religion, the religion loses its nonviolent teachings.
5). A rebel [especially of the nonviolent sort] can be defanged and co-opted by making him a saint after he is dead.
6). Somewhere behind every war there are always a few founding lies.
7). A propaganda machine promoting hatred always has a war waiting in the wings.
8). People who go to war start to resemble their enemy.
9). A conflict between a violent and a nonviolent force is a moral argument. If the violent side can provoke the nonviolent side into violence, the violent side has won.
10). The problem lies not in the nature of man but in the nature of power.
11). The longer a war lasts, the less popular it becomes.
12). The state imagines it is impotent without a military because it cannot conceive of power without force.
13). It is often no the largest but the best organized and most articulate group the prevails.
14). All debate momentarily ends with an “enforced silence” once the first shots are fired.
15). A shooting war is not necessary to overthrow an established power but is used to consolidate the revolution itself.
16). Violence does not resolve. It always leads to more violence.
17). Warfare produces peace activists. A group of veterans is a likely place to find peace activists.
18). People motivated by fear do not act well.
19). While it is perfectly feasible to convince a people faced with brutal repression to rise up in a suicidal attack on their oppressor, it is almost impossible to convince them to meet deadly violence with nonviolent resistance.
20). Wars do not have to be sold to the general public if they can be carried out by an all-volunteer professional military.
21). Once you start the business of killing, you just get “deeper and deeper,” without limits.
22). Violence always comes with a supposedly rational explanation–which is only dismissed as irrational if the violence fails.
23). Violence is a virus that infects and takes over.
24). The miracle is that despite all of society’s promotion of warfare, most soldiers find warfare to be a wrenching departure from their own moral values.
25). The hard world of beginning a movement to end war has already begun.

Brother Sport

Peoplez.

For real.

Listen to Brother Sport.

It is from the new Animal Collective album due in late January, called Merriweather Post Pavilion

th'end

Leadbelly

a friend passed this to me, and to you i shall do the same.

Midnight Special





goody gumdrops!

helloz peoplez

yo peoplez.


Brother Danielson has compiled a new album.




did ya hear about that new guns 'n roses album?


bahahaha.


also, it is so cold here in the news of newport. scarves and hats and gloves and jackets.


ANSWER rally in march!



more to come.

mmm,ol.

Hello all.


The time for school is almost here.


I will post updates.

fgggfgffgfgfggg

Well hello all.

I think I'm getting a job working with underprivaleged kids at a baseball camp.

But we'll have to see.

I bought a 1994 Ford station wagon for 600 bucks, and it only had like 40,000 miles on it because this little old lady only drove from her house to her job. It's my first automobiiiiile.

And it's greeeeeeeen.

One more smile

Sleepyhappyfuntime

Smiles

A Collective of Animals

You know what I mean.

"For Reverend Green," from their newest album Strawberry Jam.

Delicious. I am anticipating their next work. They just released an EP not too long ago, and it was glorious.

A Poet

Jason Bredle

He is my new friend.

So maybe read him? I don't know.

Explosions in my ears

Just got back from Explosions in the Sky at the Norva.

It was very nice.

The opener was Robert Lowe AKA Lichens.

Moor Muzik

mmmmmmmmmmmmmm Sahara....

Tinariwen


Also...a friend of Sufjan is a friend indeed.

Marla Hansen

Drums galore

Foot Village

That's a lot of drums.

Tickets, muxtape, radio sensation!

Well golly goo, I have purchased myself a ticket to Explosions in the Sky this Friday, and I can'tgetthere. The same thing happed to me with Cat Power earlier this year. Bah!

Also, the semester is almost over.

One word: poetry.

Also, I cannot aquire the bandwith needed to make a muxtape, however, I'm working on it. It will be a glorious surprise!

In other news, my radio show for next year will be censored and musically limited to the 14,812 "alternative rock" songs the station feels will "please" the most "people." But I'm also working on that. If I do everything they tell me to, maybe they will give me an hour a week to play more eclectic music.

Read Chuck Palahniuk

Read Kurt Vonnegut

Read Tom Robbins

Read Don DeLillo

Read Jonathan Safran Foer.

Read Dorothy Day

Read something good and tell me about it.

Also, listen to Apostle of Hustle.




Love, peace, charity, sincerity.

Leadership project

Here is our feeble attempt at describing leadership to the world.

Behold.

Kelley Stoltz interviewed

Well folks, one of my favorite musicians, Kelley Stoltz, has been interviewed by one of my favorite sites, Tiny Mix Tapes, so I guess it's mandatory that I make a post out of it. Basically he makes home recordings out of his apartment, which located on top of a run-down laundromat. Check him out.

Mobility

I've never owned a car. I drove my dad's Jeep Cherokee while he was at work and my brother's Honda Civic while he was a freshman at JMU. But other than that, I've never been guranteed a ride anywhere, and it has been pretty frustrating. I just want to have the power to be able to go where I want whevever I want. But this is such a selfish midset. I've never thought in depth about the ecological issues at hand. But the more I overcrowding and subsequent pollution caused by poorly-made vehicles, the less I care about owning one. If I need to get anywhere, emphasis on NEED, then I'm starting to ride my bike. I'm even going to try to ride the public transit for the first time this Sunday. I think it's a little irresponsible on my part to keep asking my friends for rides when the city offers cheap (about $1.50 per ride) trasport for multiple people. I ask that everyone be at least curious about their situation if they have the privilege. People like my good friends Ben Jackson and Conrad Wineland are in different countries where there isn't even nearly an organized of a system of transport for the residents. If anything, at least be curious about what alternatives your area offers.

Also-

Did you know that if every household changed its five most-used lightbulbs to compact fluorescent light bulbs, the country coul take twenty-one coal-fired power plants off-line tomorrow. This would keep one trillion pounds of poisonous gases and soot out of the air we breathe and send to the countries around us. This would also have the same beneficial impact of taking eight million cars off the roads.

Food for thought

There's something about the food we eat that scares me. Processed, chemically-sprayed, force-fed, steroid-treated tissues can't be good for humanity or the environment.

What are some ways to prevent this unhealthy pattern in today's consumer-oriented society?

Is it the coffee we drink, the beef we buy, the industrial farms we support, the vegetables we alter, the ground we kill, the forests we destroy, the money we spend, or the nations we coerce?

What are some things we can do?

College

I think half of the people I know don't want to be in college, yet we still go. We, as in I am included. I just don't think I can justify spending so much money on this.

The Secret Message of Jesus

"What if Jesus' secret message reveals a secret plan? What if he didn't come to start a new religion- but rather came to start a political, social, religious, artistic, economic, intellectual, and spiritual revolution that would give birth to a new world?"

forrealz

Musical Elitism

This relatively new phenomenon is something I've been a part of, unintentionally. Below is an amusing, yet infomative look on what it actually looks like. Check out the rest of my friends at Tiny Mix Tapes. Their opinions are interesting, to say the least.

http://www.tinymixtapes.com/Of-Fandom-and-Isolation