(Source: zesticola)
People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you.
You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity.
Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It’s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.
You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.
” Banksy, from Cut It Out (via cultureofresistance, zaschell)We shall continue to have a worsening ecologic crisis until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence, save to serve man.
By destroying pagan animism, Christianity made it possible to exploit nature in a mood of indifference to the feelings of natural objects.
”Lynn White, Jr.
It has become a secular ideology as well, and this destructive myths lies at the foundation of industrial civilization. It has become the zeitgeist, the prevailing spirit of the age - the rationalization of so-called “development”, turning living communities of plants, animals and elements into dead commodities to be shaped by a detached and self-justifying socipathic system.
(via cultureofresistance)
This is the real link between Christianity and modern science, which began during the so-called dark ages. Science has inherited this falsehood and adopted it as a core principal. Thankfully there are those who disagree with “objective impartiality” to their subjects. They’re small in number, but hopefully growing.
