If by “intellectual” you mean people who are using their minds, then it’s all over the society. If by “intellectual” you mean people who are a special class who are in the business of imposing thoughts, and framing ideas for people in power, and telling everyone what they should believe, and so on, well, yeah, that’s different. Those people are called “intellectuals” — but they’re really more a kind of secular priesthood, whose task is to uphold the doctrinal truths of the society. And the population should be anti-intellectual in that respect, I think that’s a healthy reaction.
Noam Chomsky (via quotesandthat)
I know too much and not enough.
Allen Ginsberg (via allegorys)

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Forget about your life situation and pay attention to your life. Your life situation exists in time. Your life is now. Your life situation is mind-stuff. Your life is real.
Eckhart Tolle (via lazyyogi)
To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.
Thich Nhat Hanh (via lazyyogi)
There is no one torturing you except yourself. There is nobody except yourself; your whole life is your work—your creation. Once you grasp this, things start changing…transforming. You can play at changing your hell into heaven, or, if you are in love with misery, create as much as you wish.
Osho (via siempre-para-siempre)

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govt2603: Statement by the Dept. of Sociology and Social Policy vis Dalai Lama visit

govt2603:

“Dear Vice Chancellor,

The members of the Department of Sociology and Social Policy are, like many of our colleagues, disturbed by the recent ABC news report ‘University Shuts Down Dalai Lama Visit’, currently being echoed around the world, and its implications for academic independence and…

Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a system of debt, they can’t afford the time to think. Tuition fee increases are a “disciplinary technique,” and, by the time students graduate, they are not only loaded with debt, but have also internalized the “disciplinarian culture.” This makes them efficient components of the consumer economy.
Noam Chomsky (via dirtysoychai)