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Western Infidels

I've got a small appliance that has died just short of its warranty period. The maker has been responsive. They're offering me a new one. Which is great, I guess.

But to get the replacement, they want me to cut the cord off the old one, and to send them a picture showing that I've done it.

I never held out much hope that they would offer to repair the thing. But my active participation in this wasteful system feels like a crime. I'm expected to personally turn something that _almost_ works into un-recyclable trash.

It doesn't make me keen to acquire more of their products, it makes me wish I had never acquired this one in the first place.

#consumerism#materialism#recycling
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Jonathan Emmesedi

This lucidly written and elegantly argued book should be read by everybody on the left, especially those of us apt to turn to concepts such as "false consciousness", "hegemony", or "dominant ideology" when explaining the current impasse of socialist and social democratic parties.

‘The Class Matrix: Social Theory after the Cultural Turn’ by Vivek Chibber reviewed by Chris James Newlove – Marx & Philosophy Society

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marxandphilosophy.org.uk‘The Class Matrix: Social Theory after the Cultural Turn’ by Vivek Chibber reviewed by Chris James NewloveThe Class Matrix concisely and systematically argues the case for the continued importance of class for the radical left today. Vivek Chibber rigorously debunks various long held understandings that characterise radical left thought since the cultural turn. Chibber situates the cultural turn as arising from debates within Marxism (specifically the British New Left) on how to understand the seeming stability of capitalism in the 1960s and 1970s. Key moments in the cultural turn include the role of the New Left Review and the appointment of Stuart Hall as director of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at Birmingham University in…
#TheClassMatrix#VivekChibber#Class
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50+ Music

"Imagine" is a song by the English musician #JohnLennon from his 1971 album of the same name. The best-selling single of his solo career, the lyrics encourage listeners to imagine a world of peace, without #materialism, without borders separating nations and without #religion. Shortly before his #death, Lennon said that much of the song's lyrics and content came from his wife, #YokoOno, and in 2017, she received a co-writing credit. Lennon.
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YouTubeIMAGINE. (Ultimate Mix, 2020) - John Lennon & The Plastic Ono Band (with the Flux Fiddlers) HDBy johnlennon
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☭ 𝗖 𝗔 𝗧 ☭

It's scary to think about this, but it's likely true. Our consciousness is a product of the collective biological processes of our bodies, and once those biological processes no longer function (i.e. once we die), we will no longer be conscious. We can't comprehend not being conscious forever, so some of us imagine we'll be conscious in an afterlife, while others accept the uncomfortable yet undeniable truth of the finiteness of our consciousness.

#atheism#materialism#naturalism
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DoomsdaysCW

#ApacheStronghold at #MartinLutherKingJr's #MontgomeryAlabama Dexter Avenue Baptist Church

"We ask you to please keep us in your prayers as we move East to continue our prayer journey to the #SupremeCourt to stop the shattering of the human existence and to protect #MotherEarth. It’s time to wake up the people of this country to stop the desecration of all our spiritual connection to Mother Earth and #Usen (God)."

By Apache Stronghold, #CensoredNews, September 1, 2024

MONTGOMERY, Alabama -- "The Apache Stronghold made a stop on their Journey of Prayer to the Supreme Court in the city of Montgomery, Alabama, the birthplace of the civil rights movement and home of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. first served as a full-time pastor.

"This church and Dr. King played a central role in uniting the local community in the struggle against what King called the evils of #materialism, #militarism, and #racism.

"The Stronghold was reminded that in 2013, Dr. #WendslerNosieSr., in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, received the Presidential Award from the National Progressive Baptist Convention, becoming the first #NativeAmerican to receive the award.

"Dr. Nosie remembered how humbling it was that people in the East thought of him in the West and that these struggles for civil and human rights are connected to what this whole journey to the supreme court is all about.

"The struggle for freedom continues as Dr. Nosie reflected, 'It’s time to use all our combined voices for civil and human rights to fight for Mother Earth, the greatest gift God has given us.' So far on this journey we are happy to see that the churches are bringing in the importance of protecting Mother Earth. We have to make the air, the water, the earth a priority because we will only be able to stop the shattering of human existence by protecting God’s greatest gift, our Mother Earth."

Read more:
bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/09

#WaterIsLife #AirIsLife #EarthIsLife #SCOTUS
#SaveOakFlat #SanCarlosApache
#Arizona #ProtectOakFlat
#DefendTheSacred
#IndigenousActivism
#WaterIsLife #SacredSites #RecycleCopper
#MiningWithoutConsent
#ProtectTheSacred #CulturalGenocide #Ecocide #NativeAmericanNews
#NoMiningWithoutConsent
#CorporateColonialism
#ChichilBiłdagoteel #RespectTheTreaties #HumanRights

bsnorrell.blogspot.comApache Stronghold Welcomed at Martin Luther King's Alabama ChurchCensored News is a service to grassroots Indigenous Peoples engaged in resistance and upholding human rights.
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