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My thoughts: the future isn't going to be better technology, bigger buildings, flying cars, infinite progress, first world living or space travel. The future is overgrown ruins, industrial collapse, new species, emergent conciousness, salvage, savage, weeds, invasive vegetation, ecotechnic tribes, dieoffs, bushcraft, natures revenge, darkness, light and wild.

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"We were discussing homosexuality because of an allusion to it in the book we were reading, and several boys made comments such as, “That’s disgusting.” We got into the debate and eventually a boy admitted that he was terrified/disgusted when he was once sharing a taxi and the other male passenger made a pass at him. The lightbulb went off. “Oh,” I said. “I get it. See, you are afraid, because for the first time in your life you have found yourself a victim of unwanted sexual advances by someone who has the physical ability to use force against you.” The boy nodded and shuddered visibly.“But,” I continued. “As a woman, you learn to live with that from the time you are fourteen, and it never stops. We live with that fear every day of our lives. Every man walking through the parking garage the same time you are is either just a harmless stranger or a potential rapist. Every time.” The girls in the room nodded, agreeing. The boys seemed genuinely shocked. “So think about that the next time you hit on a girl. Maybe, like you in the taxi, she doesn’t actually want you to.”"

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Remind me to discuss this angle with you. I agree with it in part, but I think it’s very accusatory and thus unfair. Not all men treat women like that, and shouldn’t we, as loving human beings, try to stop that from happening to anyone?

(via 1kmiles)

Yeah you make a good point, it is generic but also generally quite accurate. If you explained two stories to people - a man approaches a woman and a man approaches a man, our current culture has a underlying ‘neurosis’ over the latter - most probably a legacy from Abrahamic religions

(Source: andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com, via 1kmiles)

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