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No really, that's pretty much what this is. All of the random shit I find on the internet/think of in my mind/draw out on paper. Is there a direction? No not really. Does this matter? nope. Is anyone reading this? You are!

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Woodkid / Run Boy Run

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philphys:

“As man advances in civilization, and small tribes are united into larger communities, the simplest reason would tell each individual that he ought to extend his social instincts and sympathies to all the members of the same nation, though personally unknown to him. This point being once reached, there is only an artificial barrier to prevent his sympathies extending to the men of all nations and races. If, indeed, such men are separated from him by great differences in appearance or habits, experience unfortunately shews us how long it is, before we look at them as our fellow-creatures. Sympathy beyond the confines of man, that is, humanity to the lower animals, seems to be one of the latest moral acquisitions. It is apparently unfelt by savages, except towards their pets. How little the old Romans knew of it is shewn by their abhorrent gladiatorial exhibitions. The very idea of humanity, as far as I could observe, was new to most of the Gauchos of the Pampas. This virtue, one of the noblest with which man is endowed, seems to arise incidentally from our sympathies becoming more tender and more widely diffused, until they are extended to all sentient beings. As soon as this virtue is honoured and practised by some few men, it spreads through instruction and example to the young, and eventually becomes incorporated in public opinion.”
-Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man (1871)

philphys:

“As man advances in civilization, and small tribes are united into larger communities, the simplest reason would tell each individual that he ought to extend his social instincts and sympathies to all the members of the same nation, though personally unknown to him. This point being once reached, there is only an artificial barrier to prevent his sympathies extending to the men of all nations and races. If, indeed, such men are separated from him by great differences in appearance or habits, experience unfortunately shews us how long it is, before we look at them as our fellow-creatures. Sympathy beyond the confines of man, that is, humanity to the lower animals, seems to be one of the latest moral acquisitions. It is apparently unfelt by savages, except towards their pets. How little the old Romans knew of it is shewn by their abhorrent gladiatorial exhibitions. The very idea of humanity, as far as I could observe, was new to most of the Gauchos of the Pampas. This virtue, one of the noblest with which man is endowed, seems to arise incidentally from our sympathies becoming more tender and more widely diffused, until they are extended to all sentient beings. As soon as this virtue is honoured and practised by some few men, it spreads through instruction and example to the young, and eventually becomes incorporated in public opinion.”

-Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man (1871)

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Indian farmers’ new cash crop: “Guar has changed my life.”: Guar, a bean, is commonly used (in guar gum form) as an additive to foods such as ice cream, but that’s not what’s driven up its value tenfold in the past year — rather, guar gum is a necessary part of fracking. Really. source Find us on Twitter! • Stalk us on Facebook!

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Indian farmers’ new cash crop: “Guar has changed my life.”: Guar, a bean, is commonly used (in guar gum form) as an additive to foods such as ice cream, but that’s not what’s driven up its value tenfold in the past year — rather, guar gum is a necessary part of fracking. Really. source

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“I urge the Government to take bold steps to signal that it is serious in its intention to resolve this crisis peacefully, and for everyone involved to help create the right context for a credible political process. And this message of peace is not only for the Government, but for everyone with a gun.”

—UN Envoy to Syria Kofi Annan • Speaking in the wake of the undisputedly brutal Syrian massacre over the weekend, which killed over 100 people, many of them children. (ht Al Jazeera English)

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