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If I Hate You More Than Myself We’ve Got A Problem

I like to think I’m an acquired taste, like old whiskey or arsenic in your tea

So this is usually the part where pretension comes out in full and beautiful force but this is going to be the first time in a long time I'm going to be honest. My name is Clarence (Hello), born in 1988, i got my undergrad degree in Sociology (with a concentration in Women's Studies) and I'm utterly terrified. I'm scared of everything, people, my own feelings and sometimes even being but really there's nothing much to be done about that despite what I say. And I will say a lot about how my life has no meaning and i want to die (which is the majority of the time) but sometimes it seems like life is worth living for and everything in it is a spectacular explosion of awe inspiring wonder (which is usually a three week span some time in March). If it seems odd to read think what it might be like living it. So to get off the topic of terror I prefer stories. I like to read them, I love to live in them and there is nothing better to me than a story so I guess this blog is a story mostly about me. Don't bother trying to find themes, connection or messages in what I post cause there really aren't any (unless they are completely accidental).

This blog is a story about what I find, what I feel and what I think so to that end I collect things to post or reblog. Its not meant to be anything truly meaningful or interconnected, just fun (mostly fun for me if you don't like it you can fuck right off) This is collection of all the the weird and interesting links from around the net that I find, comics, technology, comedy, current events, sociology, general geek/nerd interest, a little pornography and more weird stuff (seriously its become about 65% clusterfuck of the strange stuff which is also why I don't feel bad about continuing to name it Strange World). I think it makes for the closest representation to who I am that I've ever done and it just keeps growing bigger which is most of the fun. And don't be disturbed if i in several post warn about my soon to happen suicide (I have yet to actually do it so we're all probably safe for a few more years). Please feel free to talk to me and don't mind the depressive tone i will probably be using. I like to think I'm somewhat fun if also a complete idiot.

Please feel free to talk to me by letter in my ask or by following me on other social networks but please just throw me a message about who you are so I accept the request I have no patients for spamming (send me an ask here if you want to be a friend on Steam.

By the By it goes without saying you should make sure children don't read most of this (I like swearing and naked women of all shapes, colors and sizes).

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A fairy story: ‘Once upon a time there was a Man who lived in Scarcity. After many adventures and a long journey through Economic Science, he met the Affluent Society. They married and had lots of needs.’
Jean Baudrillard, The Consumer Society (via ballpointpencil)

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A ban would be aesthetically, culturally and environmentally right. But it’s what it says about us that matters too. It would be a sign of collective and democratic power over the market. It would be a signal that says the public interest trumps private interest. That the freedom to be fully human, and not just be subjected to an endless onslaught of adverts, should come first. That we are citizens more than we are consumers.
Ban outdoor advertising | Neal Lawson (via sociolab)
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Advertising… conducts a subtle game of instrumentalizing unhappiness and dissatisfaction with capitalism as a motivation for consumption. This was witnessed as early as the 1920s, when American marketers targeted a growing collective sense of ennui and alienation from urban-capitalist existence, a feeling that more innocent, dependable relations were being lost. The images used to sell products during the 1920s and 30s were specifically drawn from a social ideal of traditional family and community life that industrial capitalism appeared to be destroying. By the 1960s, advertising was tapping into frustrations with bourgeois and bureaucratic routines, speaking to the counter-culture even as it was first emerging. Advertising, like management theory, is fuelled by a critique of the dominant normative-economic regime within which it sits, facilitating safe acts of micro-rebellion against the macro-social order. It acts as capital’s own trusted moral and artistic critic in order to inspire additional psychological engagement on the part of ordinary worker-consumers. Dissatisfaction is reduced to a psychological tendency to be fed back into processes of production and consumption.
William Davies, “The Political Economy of Unhappiness” (via quotemarx)

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What we lack is not employment, but a way of fairly distributing the bounty we have generated through our technologies, and a way of creating meaning in a world that has already produced far too much stuff.
Are jobs obsolete? - CNN.com (via linzyxxxxx)
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practicalandrogyny: Sociological Images: Pictures of Kids and Their Stuff Sociological Images: Seeing is Believing is designed to encourage all kinds of people to exercise and develop their sociological imagination by presenting brief sociological discussions of compelling and timely imagery that spans the breadth of sociological inquiry. [Two photographs showing children’s bedrooms; one is primarily pink showing a child dressed in a toy tiara and pink gingham dress surrounded by pink, pastell purple clothing, bedding, dolls, plush toys, books, plates and cutlery - even a toy car visible is pink, brands visible include Barbie and Disney Princesses; the other is primarily blue and shows a child dressed in dark blue jeans, a light blue sweater and a red toy Superman cape surrounded by blue, black and red clothing, bedding, Superman action figures, plush toys and vehicles - even some teddy bears visible are blue, brands visible include Superman, Spider-Man and Disney’s Seven Dwarves. Yellow is used to decorate toys in both photographs.] Sociological Images presents a series of photographs of children posed with their possessions, raising questions about the nature of gender in our consumerist society. Such sharp segregation between girls and boys clothes and toys is a relatively recent development. See all the photographs at Sociological Images

practicalandrogyny:

Sociological Images: Pictures of Kids and Their Stuff

Sociological Images: Seeing is Believing is designed to encourage all kinds of people to exercise and develop their sociological imagination by presenting brief sociological discussions of compelling and timely imagery that spans the breadth of sociological inquiry.

[Two photographs showing children’s bedrooms; one is primarily pink showing a child dressed in a toy tiara and pink gingham dress surrounded by pink, pastell purple clothing, bedding, dolls, plush toys, books, plates and cutlery - even a toy car visible is pink, brands visible include Barbie and Disney Princesses; the other is primarily blue and shows a child dressed in dark blue jeans, a light blue sweater and a red toy Superman cape surrounded by blue, black and red clothing, bedding, Superman action figures, plush toys and vehicles - even some teddy bears visible are blue, brands visible include Superman, Spider-Man and Disney’s Seven Dwarves. Yellow is used to decorate toys in both photographs.]

Sociological Images presents a series of photographs of children posed with their possessions, raising questions about the nature of gender in our consumerist society.

Such sharp segregation between girls and boys clothes and toys is a relatively recent development.

See all the photographs at Sociological Images

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