Just How Much Money Is Enough Money To Realize You Don’t Need Money?  About Jim Carrey Amount, Dont

" It wasn't until I was quite big I saw my first train.  I climbed up and down the station bridge, quite unaware that its function was to permit people to cross from one track to another.  I was convinced that the bridge had been provided to lend an exotic touch and to make the station premises a place of pleasant diversity, like some foreign playground. "

" I remained under this delusion for quite a long time, and for me it was a very refined amusement indeed to climb up and down the bridge.  I thought that it was one of the most elegant services provided by the railways.  When later I discovered the bridge was nothing but a utilitarian device, I lost all interest in it. "

Swedish children discuss the concept of god in a way that makes most adults look like morons.  Just for fun, here’s a list of the most atheist countries in the world:

1 - China

2 - Japan

3 - Czech Republic

4 - France

5 - Australia

6 - Iceland

Lately I'm reading literature from 1930's Japan, I'm reading 1960's scifi, im reading 1800s philosophy and Ill tell ya a funny thing about it, nothing has changed, and probably nothing will change

You’re all fucked and overrated, i think I’m gonna be sick and it’s your fault.

America is a horrible, terrifying country run by mostly rich old white men supported by white mouth breathing morons whom the urge to punish is strong especially if you're not white.  America literally sucks you dry of any resources, until you run out, then they lock you up and use you as slave labor.

America then uses the funds from that and their other vast shady endeavors to wage war under false banners for oil and further wealth gain, which it then evenly distributes amongst basically 12 mr burns type old guys, half of which are Pfizers ( hitlers family ) and Rockefellers ( Oil vampires that have their hands in the med/food pfizer cookie jar )

I know i know, im some stupid liberal and im reporting fake news, because math isnt science anymore...

...She rambled on, but I have never been able to get interested when women talk about themselves, it may be because women are so inept at telling a story ( That is, because they place the emphasis in the wrong places ) or for some other reason. In any case I have always turned a deaf ear. " " I feel so unhappy " " I am sure that this one phrase whispered to me would arouse my sympathy more than the longest, most painstaking account of a womans life. It amazes and astonishes me that i have never once heard a woman make this simple statement. " "...something like a silent current of misery an inch wide flowed over the surface of her body. When I lay next to her my body was enveloped in her current, which mingled with my own harsher current of gloom like ' a withered leaf settling to rest on the stones at the bottom of a pool ' I had freed myself from fear and uneasiness. "

Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

I’m thinking every so often I’ll post a book, just because I can, and tell you if I think you should read it or not, who WOULDN’T trust the opinions of a drunk stranger concerning classical and contemporary literature, obviously.

Treasure Island, this is a book I read as a kid, some of you may have read it as a kid or a teen.  Personally all i remembered was typical pirate story, nothing really special.  I reread this as an adult, and found it a much more interesting book.  Though written from the perspective of a young teen boy, it’s much better understood from an adult mindset.  the brief synopsis ( SPOILERS ):

Jim Hawkins is a 13 year old boy who works at his family business the Benbow Inn.  A rich seacaptain comes to town and takes residence there, where he gets drunk and generally terrorizes the patrons.  He pays Jim each week to keep lookout for any seafaring men that should happen to pass through, especially the seafaring man with one leg.

The captain as it turns out was the first mate for a crew that found a great treasure and buried it on, you guessed it treasure island.  One day one of his old crew comes in and gives him the black spot, the mark of death, and the captain chases him out with a cutlass, come in and has a heart attack.  The doctor sees him and tells him if he keeps drinking he’ll die.  the next day hes getting booze shakes and drinks and dies, shocking.

Jim and the rich doctor set up a crew and sail for treasure island.  Half the crew turns out to be the old captains crew and when they hit the island they all mutiny and fight and so on.  A giggle here, and a laugh there later and the pirates are all dead but long john silver the one legged seafarer, who weasled his way into a pardon at the bitter end.

ok, now onto why you should read this as an adult.  Well it depends on who you are I suppose, i happened to grow up in a bit of a well, a coastal town of drunken fishermen, just really like horribly accented new england drunks.  As such these sort of character i found sadly relateable and was surprised to find besides the manner in which they spoke, the conversations and things they did were the same as whats going on now 100s of years later.

Infact a I reread the book as an adult i realized the treasure, the pirates, the sword fights, really the books not about them in the least.  I mean if you like action there’s plenty, but its an interesting and very subtle narration on things like the nature of people, the futility of seeking riches, the advantage and disadvantages of fighting, and so on.  And instead of it being the sort of young adult reader book i remembered it as, it was very adult, had some of the most memorable fictional characters I can think of, and had quotes, within context, that were astonishingly good writing.  I also have a suspicion that this book is where like 60% of our conceptions of a pirate come from.

It’s a shortish book, if you like reading and havent read it since youth, try picking it up sometime, if you havent read it and think its a teen pirate novel, its not, give it a shot, its one of those books where you legitimately want to know what happens next.

and since i just seem to be arbitrarily posting music ya dont know ( because I’m lazy ) here’s a song you know in a language youve never heard, youd be shocked maybe to find this language is actually the granddaddy of English, but we dont want the tumblr community thinking too abstractly now do we.

Chapter Whatever: American Prisons

" The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons" - Fyodor Dostoevsky

The United States, we lock up more people than anyone, BY FAR,

" In October 2013, the incarceration rate of the United States of America was the highest in the world, at 716 per 100,000 of the national population.  While the United States represents about 4.4 percent of the world's population, it houses around 22 percent of the world's prisoners. "

4% of the world has 22% of all the worlds inmates, and it’s not some scam for money somehow I’m sure.  The last statistic I heard was the average prisoner only costs the prison around 90 cents a day, that’s food, water, heat, about 90 cents, and they not only still do that chain gang shit in the south but they’re bringing back the free labor road project type inmate of the early 1900's acrossed the country.

" In state prisons, African-Americans are incarcerated at 5.1 times the rate of whites. "

Sounds like legal slavery to me, THE SOUTH WILL RISE AGAIN.  But i know you're thinking, well what's the south have to do with this demographic?  I'M GLAD YOU ASKED BUCKY!

" Twelve states have prison populations that were more than half black: Alabama, Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia. Maryland has a prison population that’s 72 percent black. "

Yes there are SOME non confederate states on that list, but really the proofs in the pudding, and the pudding says the south decided if they couldnt have slaves, theyd just do it this way, " usin them there fancy yankee laws "

America, home of the free ( Unless you're black, or poor, but especially if you're both )

“ If you wish to control others you must first control yourself…The primary thing when you take a sword in your hands is your intention to cut the enemy, whatever the means. Whenever you parry, hit, spring, strike or touch the enemy’s cutting sword, you must cut the enemy in the same movement. It is essential to attain this. If you think only of hitting, springing, striking or touching the enemy, you will not be able actually to cut him. “ - Miyomoto Musashi