A photo and a reflection

It is naive to believe that education alone can eradicate ignorance and prejudice. Only egalitarian dialogue can overcome the power relationships of our society. Ignorance is not lack of knowledge, it is a lack of equality.


Listening to Rolling in the Deep - Adele

TOP 5 Reasons

Why I don't trust anything posted on Facebook:

1) Nothing in life is free and there is always a catch. Beware of Costco cards, my mother always said.

2) Simple is good. Too simple is either pretentious, condescending or patronizing, if not all 3.

3) Humans (me included) are lazy, fond of short-cuts and easy answers.

4) Illusions are necessary. (?) What would Chomsky say?

5) People are ignorant. At least statistically speaking, even though some people are not. Before you get offended, ignorant comes from the verb to ignore. Most people prefer to ignore that which does not please them.

What I learned from Kony 2012

Check your facts before re-posting. Trust me, it works wonders for you and specially for me.

A little of the other side of the whole Kony 2012 hysteria:

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2012/03/201231432421227462.html

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/03/201231284336601364.html

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/worldview/stop-kony-screening-tour-cancelled-after-ugandans-react-with-outrage/article2370125/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=Referrer%3A+Social+Network+%2F+Media&utm_content=2370125&utm_campaign=Shared+Web+Article+Links


I am not even saying that you should or should not support it, but listen to the other side, for me, please?



Listening to Amelia Curran

Echos of Malcon X among waste paper

My fight is for all the oppressed people to become relevant.  - Laíssa Sobral, cooperative garbage collector, who never liked studying, but made to University so that she can help improving her environment.

Listening to Adriana Calcanhoto

TOP 5 Words I can't spell correctly

In order of annoyance:

1) Environment - a "n" should never be followed by an "m" :)

2) Comparison - I will insist to the end of my days to spell it with "pi" 

3) Teeth - Where do all those "e"s go

4) Column - a "m" should never be followed by a "n"

5) no one/someone - Why couldn't they both be together or both separated?

Listening to Adriana Calcanhoto

Sons of Potugal

We were all born of Portugal
land of my fathers
We all got the red in our blood from
the mixture of the bark that gives cork
and the crimson soil of the Alentejo.

We are all sons of Portugal
We, the expatriated
bastard sons and daughters of explorers,
who loved their wives
but could do nothing but lust after
the radiant nakedness in the red tones
of the new land.

We are not Portuguese
by the blessing of our place of birth
still we are progeny, maybe unwanted,
of the once empire to be.

To deny Portugal is to deny who we are.
To go beyond the seas
one must go beyond the pain
for it is worth our while
as are souls are as big the Amazon forest
as deep as the Fado.

We are the land of tree,
born to no one,
bastard sons of Portugal.


Listening to Adele

The Butterfly

The Butterfly

Out of the cocoon, it says,
unto the light, out with the old.
On with the new.

If I fly is because I try,
not because of these wings.
These things are just
consequences of dreaming.

If you can't fly
it is not because your wings are tied
but rather because you refuse to try.

Soaring is simple,
you just spread your wings
and fly.



Listening to Amelia Curran

TOP 5 Things I hate about Facebook

1) The absence of the following buttons under status updates and comments: Dislike, This is Stupid, You are Stupid, This is FUCKING stupid and Get a life.

2) Games - To hell with all the -Villes, unless there is one called Hellville.

3) People who complain about the Facebook layout changes - Mark Zunchemberg (or whatever he is called) is out to make money, period. Get over it!

4) The fact that the Facebook notification system is schizophrenic.

5) People who take themselves, their causes and beliefs way to seriously and like their own posts.


Listening to Maggie's Farm - Rage Against the Machine

Selfish

Loneliness comes from unexpected places, there is so much I want to say, so much I want to tell the world, but I don't know how and I doubt the world is interested. Pain and disappointment often arise from the belief that people's actions are about us, when truth is they are most often about themselves. As the old anecdote said: the selfish is he who thinks more about himself than about me....

In the absence of things to say, I'll let Leonard speak for me, cause he is that much better than I will ever be. Take it off Leonard:

POETRY

GOING HOME

by Leonard CohenJANUARY 23, 2012

I love to speak with Leonard

He’s a sportsman and a shepherd

He’s a lazy bastard

Living in a suit

But he does say what I tell him

Even though it isn’t welcome

He will never have the freedom

To refuse

He will speak these words of wisdom

Like a sage, a man of vision

Though he knows he’s really nothing

But the brief elaboration of a tube

Going home

Without my sorrow

Going home

Sometime tomorrow

To where it’s better

Than before

Going home

Without my burden

Going home

Behind the curtain

Going home

Without the costume

That I wore

He wants to write a love song

An anthem of forgiving

A manual for living with defeat

A cry above the suffering

A sacrifice recovering

But that isn’t what I want him to complete

I want to make him certain

That he doesn’t have a burden

That he doesn’t need a vision

That he only has permission

To do my instant bidding

That is to SAY what I have told him

To repeat

Going home

Without my sorrow

Going home

Sometime tomorrow

Going home

To where it’s better

Than before

Going home

Without my burden

Going home

Behind the curtain

Going home

Without the costume

That I wore

I love to speak with Leonard

He’s a sportsman and a shepherd

He’s a lazy bastard

Living in a suit

Read more http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/poetry/2012/01/23/120123po_poem_cohen#ixzz1naaeGYEX


Listening to you guessed right: Going Home - by Leonard Cohen

Top 5 word misuses that amuse me

In no particular order:

1) Ironic - Blame it on Alanis or maybe she was just the symptom. Check the oatmeal take on this matter
2) Diet - All you eat is a diet, I for example lived on a diet of Ramen Noodles for a while.
3) Cholesterol - Good and Bad cholesterol, really?!!
4) Natural - So y'all tree huggers out there know, cyanide is as natural as lettuce.
5) Irregardless - It is pompous and it is not even a fucking word.

Listening to The Once