qumbler: qumbles tagged americahttp://qumbler.comqumbler: a tumblelogqumblerqumbler: qumbles tagged americahttp://qumbler.com/images/qumbler.pnghttp://qumbler.com12030 http://qumbler.com/post/40035 Peter Samuelson: Britain is Repossessing the U.S.A. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-samuelson/britain-is-repossessing-t_b_127884.html ryan ATTRIBUTION_John_Cleese america britain economy elections independence monarchy politics Peter Samuelson: Britain is Repossessing the U.S.A.
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“[We] hereby give notice of the revocation of your independence, effective immediately.” — John Cleese

]]> Tue, 23 Sep 2008 12:34:43 -0500 http://qumbler.com/post/40029 Informed Comment: A Nation of Masochists http://www.juancole.com/2008/09/nation-of-masochists.html ryan ATTRIBUTION_Juan_Cole america bitter masochism politics quotation sad Informed Comment: A Nation of Masochists
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“The diagnosis of national masochism is the only thing that can satisfactorily explain the poll numbers in the presidential race.” — Juan Cole

]]> Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:20:20 -0500 http://qumbler.com/post/38924 Quotation vito IRC_quote america education quotation sad <zaskoda> Happy independence day. Ask around and see who knows what year we're celebrating.

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]]> Thu, 27 Dec 2007 13:42:28 -0600 http://qumbler.com/post/32642 Quotation vito 1988 america culture disconnect europe “This country is without hope. Even its garbage is clean, its trade lubricated, its traffic pacified. The latent, the lacteal, the lethal -- life is so liquid, the signs and messages are so liquid, the bodies and the cars so fluid, the hair so blond, and the soft technologies so luxuriant, that a European dreams of death and murder, of suicide motels, of orgies and cannibalism to counteract the perfection of the ocean, of the light, of that insane ease of life, to counteract the hyperreality of everything here...

We fanatics of aesthetics and meaning, of culture, of flavor and seduction, we who see only what is profoundly moral as beautiful and for whom only the heroic distinction between nature and culture is exciting, we who are unfailingly attached to the wonders of the critical sense and transcendence find it a mental shock and a unique release to discover the fascination of nonsense and of this vertiginous disconnection, as sovereign in the cities as in the deserts. To discover that one can exult in the liquidation of all culture and rejoice in the consecration of in-difference.” — Jean Baudrillard

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“Thank God I'm not alone any more.”

]]> Wed, 20 Dec 2006 14:54:15 -0600 http://qumbler.com/post/26514 Psychology Today: A Nation of Wimps http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/index.php?term=pto-20041112-000010&print=1 vito america americans americans_suck babies coddled lack_of_personal_responsibility wimps Psychology Today: A Nation of Wimps
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