Margaret Thatcher, 1929 – 2013.
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We must remember our duty to Nature before it is too late. That duty is constant. It is never completed. It lives on as we breathe. It endures as we eat and sleep, work and rest, as we are born and as we pass away.
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Every premature death is a tragedy.
Fatalities by type on a single day in the USA.
Road vehicles 88 * Suicides 53 * Guns 30 * IED 3 ** * every single fucking day
** one-offSources: http://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/fatal.html
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A basic fucking income
The whole point of the industrial revolution was more leisure time and better use of resources, right? Well that didn’t work very fucking well did it? Rather than enjoying abundance and sharing the work around we just have more unemployed people.
This is about to get much worse. Much, much worse. One word for you: robots.
Yep, robots gun tukk arrr jobs. Well, most of them. And trust me this is going to happen. If you don’t think so you haven’t been paying attention, which is fair enough because you’ve been busy – because you’ve been failed by the industrial revolution.
Now we could, I have no doubt, think of more things for ourselves to do, create jobs which don’t really need doing, and continue the race to be more competitive than the next man.
Or we could say “Hot damn! We’ve arrived! WE. ARE. CLEVER! High five everyone!! Now how about we all enjoy the fruits of these labours and work out how to live peaceably with this abundance? For, look, we have EVERYTHING! The future is here! We have arrived, this is what we were aiming for and this is it!”
And someone will say, “yes, but what we will do about money?”
And you will turn around and say, “Basic fucking income, bro! We all get issued money, enough to just about live on, and so only that which needs doing gets done!”
Which is, of course, a fucking brilliant idea and already used in Norway and Alaska to name but two.
There’s an EU petition afoot to do as little social experiment on how feasible this is, so would you sign up?
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The peaceful populations of North Korea, Israel, Pakistan, and Iran might like to get their shit together into a velvet revolution right about now.
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You have to stop being wrong before setting the world to rights.
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Don’t let your possessions possess you.
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Try not to fly.
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What incredible shit we put up with most of our lives. The domestic routine. The stupid and useless and degrading jobs. The insufferable arroagance of elected officials. The crafty cheating and slimy advertising of the businessman. The tedious wars in which we kill our buddies instead of our real enemies back home in the capital. The foul diseased and hideous cities and towns we live in. The constant petty tyranny of automatic washers, and automobiles,and TVs and telephones. Oh Christ what intolerable garbage and utterly useless crap we bury ourselves in day by day.
Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire.
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The very fact that the word ‘misanthropy’ exists is quite a statement.
Though it’s also a high-five for the richness of language that we have a word to describe this.
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Egypt: have a National Day of Psychonautics and then hurry up and write your constitution. It’ll be fucking brilliant and you can show the world that a renaissance built on peace, love, forgiveness, and togetherness is not only possible but incredibly potent.
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