Filed under: How To Alienate Yourself | Tags: Catholics, hippies, pocket mulching
Environmentalism is the new spirituality.
Compare and contrast:
“I’m not a religious person. I’m a spiritual person.”
“I’m not a hippie. I’m an environmentalist.”
Discuss:
Spirituality is the phenomenon whereby people profess to believe in a higher power, which can be connected with through any means possible. Methods may include meditation, chanting, fasting or feeding off of crystal energy.
Environmentalism is the phenomenon whereby people profess to believe in the positive change one person can make on the harmful impact of our species on our natural surroundings. Change can occur through recycling, composting, commuting and eating vegetables grown only on their apartment windowsills.
In both situations, disdain may be felt for people not currently in the same mindset. Spiritualists may scoff at Catholics, claiming that their concept of Hell is a doctrine of fear. Environmentalists may scoff at those who drive impractical vehicles, claiming that their concept of Western living is bringing about Hell on earth.
Practical Use:
Claim to be either one with great enthusiasm. Extra points go to those who claim to be both. Grand prize goes to those who claim to be both and evidence hypocrisy easily.
Filed under: On This Day in Old Timey Days | Tags: beatnik, howl, howling, poetry, wooden boxes full of things
:: June 03 . 1926 ::
Allen Ginsberg, renowned Beat poet, is born in New Jersey.
He will go on to write letters to The New York Times about political issues such as World War II and workers’ rights, meet William S. Burroughs and join NAMBLA as a “means of free speech.” Oh yeah, and he managed to write Howl, which was considered obscene for its time and ultimately helped to liberalize what could be published in the United States.
As a cause of this liberation, we were fortunate enough to be given such fine publications as Sex to Sexty, Dude, Where’s My Country? and Woody Allen: A Biography.
Howl, also inspired American composer, John Cage, to pen “Writing Through Howl”.
John Cage was a major source of the American arm of the Fluxus movement.
Fluxus boxes
and Yoko Ono
were both products that can be attributed to Cage.
Watch : Yoko Ono – New York Woman (…)
