(Source: truthstream)
(Source: mainstreamrevolution)
(Source: betweenlegs)
When the taste for physical gratifications among them has grown more rapidly than their education … the time will come when men are carried away and lose all self-restraint … . It is not necessary to do violence to such a people in order to strip them of the rights they enjoy; they themselves willingly loosen their hold… . they neglect their chief business which is to remain their own masters.
— Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, Vol. 2 (via trueloveisafire)
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Why is America the greatest country in the world? Haha …
If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace.
— John Lennon (via streetphilosophers)
(Source: thestreetphilosopher)
Consumerism, Sex, Advertising, and Evolutionary Psychology
Bill Moyers Journal: Interview with Andrew Bacevich
Watch this insightful and prescient interview with historian, professor, and former US Army Colonel Andrew Bacevich.
