manifested thoughts. objectified paranoia. signatures of light. hibernated momentum. a million boarded walls. a bridge for the reasons.
Monday, May 4, 2009
passion. desire. need. want. love. chaos. beauty.
Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening. -Gabrielle Coco Chanel (1883-1971)
I believe it was in nineteen and fifty six. During the famous kitchen debates, Nikita Khrushchev was speaking to Nixon, and he said to him, ‘Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We’ll strangle your cities with traffic. We will draw you into fighting useless wars. We’ll send in developers to ravage your land, and replace your individual farms with corporations. We will force your citizens into the slavery of credit card debt. We’ll send gangsters into your schools to sell your children drugs. We’ll replace each of your meals with empty junk food. One way or another, you will see who comes out on top.’ Well it wasn’t an empty threat at all. Almost a quarter of the land mass in Los Angeles is taken up by automobiles.
How can it be that in the United States of America we are still being told that we cannot provide a good education for every child? We are still being told that we cannot provide good health care for every citizen. We are still being told that people can't look forward to jobs that they can support themselves and their children on. We're still being told that we cannot achieve the goal of having every five-year old come to kindergarten ready to learn, knowing the alphabet, knowing how to spell her name, knowing colors, shapes, and sizes, having been read to widely with that wonderful readiness to learn. How can it be that we are being told that we cannot do this? I say to you today that it is not right. It is not acceptable. We can do much better, and if not now, when? If we don't do this now, when will we do it as a nation?
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yes, indeed.
I believe it was in nineteen and
fifty six. During the famous kitchen debates, Nikita Khrushchev was speaking to Nixon, and he said to him, ‘Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We’ll strangle your cities with traffic. We will draw you into fighting useless wars. We’ll send in developers to ravage your land, and replace your individual farms with corporations. We will force your citizens into the slavery of credit card debt. We’ll send gangsters into your schools to sell your children drugs.
We’ll replace each of your meals with empty junk food. One way or
another, you will see who comes out on top.’ Well it wasn’t an empty threat at all.
Almost a quarter of the land mass in Los Angeles is taken up by
automobiles.
Yeah, capitalism defeated socialism. Not too much later it defeated democracy too.
Awesome fashion and a 3 grand purse!
How can it be that in the United States of America we are still being told that we cannot provide a good education for every child? We are still being told that we cannot provide good health care for every citizen. We are still being told that people can't look forward to jobs that they can support themselves and their children on. We're still being told that we cannot achieve the goal of having every five-year old come to kindergarten ready to learn, knowing the alphabet, knowing how to spell her name, knowing colors, shapes, and sizes, having been read to widely with that wonderful readiness to learn. How can it be that we are being told that we cannot do this? I say to you today that it is not right. It is not acceptable. We can do much better, and if not now, when? If we don't do this now, when will we do it as a nation?
what a bunch of shit
Good quote, and very true too. :)
Thanks for your sweet comment! <3
xoxo,
S-C
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