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Various things -- anarchism, environmentalism, green anarchy, anti-capitalism, Marxism, philosophy [structuralism, post-structuralism, postmodernism, phenomenology, existentialism, metaphysics, philosophy of science, ethics, political philosophy], buddhism, global politics, international relations, conflict theory, cultural studies, critical theory, social constructivism, Israel/Palestine, feminism, weight training, fitness, sports nutrition. Also, I'm a fan of the Toronto Maple Leafs (NHL hockey team).

And I'm a guy, for those of who read 'feminism, weight lifting' and think of some jacked lesbian (if you did, you're a fucking moron).

Trying to understand our postmodern life-milieu and the late capitalist patriarchy.

Some quotes:



"I am the self which I will be in the mode of not being it."
-Sartre

Chomsky on the -actual- one-world government that smallminded conspiracy nuts are too stupid or ignorant to understand:
"Structures of governance have tended to coalesce around economic power. The process continues. In the London Financial Times, James Morgan describes the "'de facto world government' that is taking shape in the 'new imperial age': the I.M.F., World Bank, Group of 7 industrialized nations, General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and other institutions designed to serve the interests of transnational corporations, banks and investment firms."
-Noam Chomsky, The Nation, March 1993

What these conspiracy theorists forget is that one of the major changes of globalization is that the state is becoming less important because of free trade and capital liberalization, as well as the dominance of neo-liberal, "management-style" discourse regarding the operations of government. These are the exact economic programs of the IMF and the World Bank, who have been able to gain enormous undue influence through Structural Adjustment Programmes, another case where one could plausibly claim there to be a 'one-world government' at work. But it isn't any secret...it's just in how you interpret it. Completely in the open.

"Any hatred felt long enough no longer feels like hatred. It feels like science, religion, gender, technology, it feels like the way things are."
-Derrick Jensen

"Every reification is a forgetting."
-Theodor Adorno

"Return to the things themselves."
-Edmund Husserl

"We seem to have experienced a fall into representation, whose depths and consequences are only now being fully plumbed. In a fundamental sort of falsification, symbols at first mediated reality and then replaced it. At present we live within symbols to a greater degree than we do within our bodily selves or directly with each other. "
-John Zerzan

"Unquestioned beliefs are the real authorities of a culture."
-Robert Combs

"What do you do when, after expressing support for some creature, the person next to you demands: 'what good is it?' The spell is broken, for that question reveals two different assumptions at work. The environmentalist has been assuming intrinsic value in the creature. The question denies that, and asserts the assumption that human beings are the sole bearers and dispensers of value. The latter assumption, being ubiquitous, immediately predominates, and the advocate is on the defensive. He must come up with some use for that creature, something by which to justify its existence to the other person. Ehrenfeld refers to this as the 'humanists' trap.' "Do you love Nature?" they ask. "Do you want to save it? Then tell us what it is good for." The only way out of this kind of trap, if there is a way, is to smash it, to reject it utterly. Perhaps the best the environmentalist can hope to do is to reply: 'what good are you?' - not to insult the other but to illustrate the absurdity of our presumption that one being's existence can be justified only by its utility to another. Otherwise, one risks succumbing to the humanists' trap, which is essentially the plight of modern environmentalism."
-Neil Evernden, The Natural Alien, pp. 11-12.

"Israel's occupation of the Palestinians is not the moral equivalent of the Nazi genocide of the Jews. It does not have to be. The fact that it is not in no way tempers the brutality of the repression, which has become frighteningly normal. Occupation is about the domination and dispossession of one people by another. It is about the destruction of their property and the destruction of their soul. At its core, occupation aims to deny Palestinians their humanity by denying them the right to determine their existence, to live normal lives in their own homes. And just as there is no moral equivalence or symmetry between the Holocaust and the occupation, so there is no moral equivalence or symmetry between the occupier and the occupied, no matter how much we as Jews regard ourselves as victims."
-Sara M. Roy, Edward Said Memorial Lecture, University of Adelaide

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