Meme

“Pleasure is, and must remain, a side-effect or by-product, and is destroyed and spoiled to the degree to which it is made a goal in itself.” – Man’s Search For Meaning by Victor Frankle

“There is an American doctor who wrote about the results of competition on his life. He said he went to medical school in Switzerland, and he said there was a fairly large contingent of Americans at that school. He said some of us went into shock when we realized that there were no grades, and

“I had quit my job as head of public relations at CIGNA—a job that had paid me deep into six figures—because I could no longer serve in good conscience as a spokesman for an industry whose routine practices amount to a death sentence for thousands of Americans every year.” – Deadly Spin by Wendell Potter

“There are currently 6.6 million people in the United States either in jail, on probation or on parole. Of those, more than two million are incarcerated. And of those two million — half of whom were added in the last ten years — more than sixty per cent are non-violent drug offenders. There has been

Read Salt Sugar Fat by Michael Moss for an eye opening book about the processed food industry.

“An Inuit from Greenland made famous in the Danish writer Peter Freuchen’s Book of the Eskimo. Freuchen tells how one day, after coming home hungry from an unsuccessful walrus-hunting expedition, he found one of the successful hunters dropping off several hundred pounds of meat. He thanked him profusely. The man objected indignantly: “Up in our

What is the nations largest irrigated crop? Our inedible lawns.Gimme Green is an amusing documentary about our obsession with lawns. You can watch the entire movie at http://www.cultureunplugged.com/documentary/watch-online/festival/play/7388/