Countries with borders and interests to protect, guarded borders (guarded people?), wealth and interests acknowledged by law at least what comes to corporations and interests of theirs and doing business. Rights taken or given by and for people or by part of the people for the other part to flourish. Existence recognized by other neighboring nations in the eyes of rest of the world is important when people stay oppressed without any glance of light in the future. Eyes and ears of the rest of the world is media to which noise made we react which reacting seems fairly simple on the internet. We rage, we pay no attention to the real issues only to scandals which are easily forgotten unless they are not in the air constantly. To react and act on something important we may see and feel an unjust happening, sequel of events for which true intentions and reasons may stay hidden, true villains are not to be caught. Feel we must do something about things can happen virtually to raise awareness but what happens in concrete reality. Still it is alarming how little we have power in use personally. How individual roar is heard when something has to be done to save the civil society, decency and integrity in the world it can be a fight against the windmills. Something has to be done and it often means to risk one’s safety, livelihood, privacy, name etc. at the expense of one’s private life. To stay interested in the world is important not only of one’s own life. Apathy and feeling of no means to influence is what those who use power wish us to have. To risk personal all for good of man and the planet is what many have done as means to make a difference seem to have run out. There are always ways to act.
What is it we give permission to when we permit nations to rule the world and not people thinking nations represent people when it is plain clear case is not so. Corporations and nations who represent themselves only and interests of wealth making. We like to think people equal nations. For some reason people have very little to say over politics done in many places and even here in democratic Finland many feel they do not see equality nor democracy happen as it should.
Ways of living and thinking which largely differ from each other as we know, make a strange quilt which we try to understand and often times fail as we see our ways the only correct and other ways as strange and unfamiliar, threatening to identity, prosperity and peace. Try to understand why and what but don’t quite seem to manage and many examples of how nations who think are exceptional and great do not want to understand because they think there is nothing to understand when they are better. This all is repetitious not new, when we see our way of life the right kind and the other very odd, irrational and threatening, savage, ridiculous, simple and underdeveloped we like to think we are superior and civilized. Ways of exceptionalism are ways of imperialism and profit-making with no end growth, which to think is absurd and wrong that there are nations better than others, people above other people. Problem lies often in how we manage to see savage ways of ours as civilized and justified, conquering as something elevated and right. We justify our way of living and existing via how good we are and good is defined by how much money we manage to make, how famous we are in the eyes of the world. To say this is how things have always been done is probably the worst kind of phrase to hinder progress and not understanding doing differently. When different is odd and incomprehensible change is difficult and threatening. For bureaucrats and those using authority to change is difficult as power balance changes as well which is not what authority wants, to share power and wealth. When our ways are the best and there will not be a better way of doing things it is no wonder society is unable to move ahead and thrive. The best ways do not stay best when the stay the same.
The art of protest in Putin’s Russia
Petr Pavlensky says his trial is a continuation of his work.
It is a global issue how underpaid and undervalued people who do cleaning work are. It is heavy and often times hazardous work working with toxic mediums and dirt, tolerating bullying and arrogance, sheer contempt for people who do low rated work, who haven’t made it up in the world which is a very bizarre outlook and place to be, to make it up to office. It is clear there are serious problems in how people who do jobs that do not seem to require training, intellect or college degrees are treated, contempt would not be more evident. There is strict policy of ordering, telling without much bargaining or saying against, otherwise one may lose one’s job and there are always people who will replace those who say what should be correct way for supervisors to do concerning employees. It is sad that there are people who continue to work even though employer does not treat workers correctly, does not pay adequate living wage, does not pay holiday pay nor sick leave. It is difficult if one is on one’s own dealing with these demanding issues that when addressed might cause losing one’s job. Threat that is always there is telling that things are not right. We do live in a way that work is essential, a measure of one’s worth, and to be unemployed is something we don’t want to experience, but without raising these questions in front with examples nothing will ever change or it will get worse. When life is depended on that job threat truly is visible and real.
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/oct/19/five-cleaners-tell-their-stories”They look at us as if we’re nothing. When they were refurbishing the building, the FCO was throwing out a nice sofa. I asked the porter if he could leave it to me for my home. My bosses became really angry and said I couldn’t take it because it belonged to the FCO, even though others usually pick up unwanted things or they are given to charity. The next day they destroyed the sofa. That upset me.””
I have faced myself the strange belief that due to something I do not understand such women as myself have to be extra careful what comes to being groomed and stylish and any detail not matching the ideal appearance is strictly looked down on, commented and disapproved of. It is one part of obedience training to make perfect puppets who do not smell wrong or do anything other than what is expected of them. People who believe in this kind of bullying and militant order for human behavior which does not allow stepping outside the box pointed at you are more a rule than exception and I have began to wonder why it is so. Is the answer as simple as it is much more preferable to have it easy than difficult, it is more comfortable not to face the human mess and follow orders which never change until they are forced to change. It much easier when women do as they are told, do things that are there for women to do, look like feminine and graceful beings that can be discarded when they fade, it is lovely when the ideal and easy package make perfect match so you don’t have to bother yourself to change, figure out someone or even think that that someone is on the same level as you are or is more than you. You give orders to those who are inferior to you, you team up against such people who defy you because you cannot tolerate the defiance and will to be something else.
It is a simple way of placing people into your tiny world and at the same time it is about hygiene that resonates with an ideology that is not at all that clean. Absolute sanitary cleanliness which makes everything around very dead inside and out.
FIX HER, TO HAVE HER MIND AT EASE: GRANDE PLASTIC SURGERY PLEASES SPOILED PEOPLE.
What is beautiful then? We seem to seek more extravagant beauty routines as experiences more and more, which are part of the idea of beauty, it is a process and constantly new found ingredients, beauty and wellness services and tricks. It seems it is not a matter of personal taste that much but manipulation, influence, advertising, group think and hype, even cost is not an obstacle but personality, individuality and originality go easily scarce when searching for the plastic look. Taste and style which are guided by industries that produce beauty standards. It is strange to point out one industry and blame that one evil thing when we should look at the whole picture: fashion, cosmetics, movies and pop culture, entertainment and the celebrity boom, social media and meaning of one’s own contribution and image in it. The artificial cosmos around us and the constant boom which does not stop but accelerates and speeds up like there was no end as there obviously is not, since we want to be liked in constant movement and the easiest way is via looks and places to be.
What is this all for, to look stunning to impress, make the best kind of visual impact to attract, seduce, make followers, a reputation and fame, be remembered and looked at as beautiful on the outside, as someone who has great tits, fantastic body parts until one doesn’t anymore? We want to be remembered to have been someone who looked good up to standards and measurements ’made’ by ‘experts’ of beauty and style or having had style and beauty of our own but not? To be expert on beauty is a person who knows what beauty is, how to be beautiful. Interesting is how personal taste and made up beauty standards meet or what is personal anymore, one’s own, how far people are willing to go in becoming iconic, to be admired and gazed at, desired as sexy, fuckable and sexy are the biggest lures. For those who have the means to do as many surgeries as any surgeon can and is allowed to do on one person…
Having plastic surgery is like candy. It is a culture of looking infantile without maturity, finding satisfaction which quite doesn’t show. Somehow happiness is still far away from the perfected body, it is unreachable because there is not a fairy to grant happiness just like that. So it is not in the body parts. It cannot be bought. Instant gratification of looking the way you want is obviously good and you have the right to look the way you want, as long it is what you want. What do you want? To be fake is just plain easy and it is the target to be fake and like faking can be easy as lying, an act. To be as fake as you can and pretend it is the real you, pretend the perfect body and gained lifestyle is the ultimate happy place with similar friends around who share your views and lifestyle. The wrong is when fake becomes the only thing that is worth reaching out for. When a person is not good enough without those things that can be bought and body which is molded to match a standard. The wrong is when this is the best we can get to become and dream about. The worse is calling it reality. Calling it real.
What’s wrong with it? Probably everything. Shouldn’t we be concerned and think about the reasons why people feel bad about the way they look, about body parts that do not fill the requirements, requirements that are more and more imaginable and artificial, born via images and entertainment around us? Have us think the good and the desirable and make us want to be successful through surgery and publicity, via total modification of the seen, a creation.
Sentences like: I wanted to be pretty and be admired, but now I hate myself after plastic surgery went wrong badly. I almost died. It was done by an incompetent doctor. Such can happen since plastic surgery is not without risks. People despair painfully for the good looks. So badly it is sickening to look at and sad as hell. It truly is all what one is and when looks is gone you are done for. The most sickening part of this pain is someone thinking one is all wrong on the outside, in wrong body and what is outside of one is that needs repair, correction. Being beyond repair is a failure as such, wanting to be liked and loved for what you looks like, when you do not like the way you look and other people like to comment your looks to make sure you do feel there is something wrong with you and make sure you do not fit in and do not feel comfortable, are you sure it is you who is flawed? Seeking comfort in your body is like getting lost in a forest. Being comfortable in your body means one should aspire to take care of it, not mutilate and vandalize it and definitely not do what others tell you should look like. The definite and absolute end of life today is ugliness, old and worn out looks. People who want youthful feminine looks without trace of old age seek science fiction, being over forty is today too old even with surgery. Who takes interest in you when you do not fit the beauty standards, when you do not look fresh and young? Maybe we should ask, who cares. Oldies are a big varied group of people with skills and knowledge. Why reject them, us? Because of prejudice? Isn’t today for variety and acceptance, not brutality and bullying? I guess not.
Self with flashligt, 2014
FIX HER, TO HAVE HER MIND AT EASE: GRANDE PLASTIC SURGERY PLEASES SPOILED PEOPLE.
What is beautiful then? We seem to seek more extravagant beauty routines as experiences more and more, which are part of the idea of beauty, it is a process and constantly new found ingredients, beauty and wellness services and tricks. It seems it is not a matter of personal taste that much but manipulation, influence, advertising, group think and hype, even cost is not an obstacle but personality, individuality and originality go easily scarce when searching for the plastic look. Taste and style which are much guided by industries that produce beauty standards move fast. It is strange to point out one industry and blame that one evil thing when we should look at the whole picture: fashion, cosmetics, movies and pop culture, entertainment and the celebrity boom, social media and meaning of one’s own contribution and image in it. The artificial cosmos around us and what do we want in it, the constant boom and search for immortality perhaps in the lights, which train does not stop but accelerates and speeds up like there was no end as there obviously is not, since we want to be liked in constant movement and the easiest way is via looks, poses, clothes and places to be.
What is this all for, to look stunning to impress, make the best kind of visual impact to attract, seduce, make followers, a reputation and fame, be remembered and looked at as beautiful on the outside, as someone who has great tits, fantastic body parts until one doesn’t anymore? We want to be remembered to have been someone who looked good up to standards and measurements ’made’ by ‘experts’ of beauty and style or having had style and beauty of our own but not? To be expert on beauty is a person who knows what beauty is, how to be beautiful. Interesting is how personal taste and made up beauty standards meet or what is personal anymore, one’s own, how far people are willing to go in becoming iconic, to be admired and gazed at, desired as sexy, fuckable and sexy are the biggest lures. For those who have the means to do as many surgeries as any surgeon can and is allowed to do on one person…
Having plastic surgery is like candy. It is a culture of looking infantile without maturity, finding satisfaction which quite doesn’t show. Somehow happiness is still far away from the perfected body, it is unreachable because there is not a fairy to grant happiness just like that. So it is not in the body parts. It cannot be bought. Instant gratification of looking the way you want is obviously good and you have the right to look the way you want, as long it is what you want. What do you want? To be fake is just plain easy and it is the target to be fake and like faking can be easy as lying, an act. To be as fake as you can and pretend it is the real you, pretend the perfect body and gained lifestyle is the ultimate happy place with similar friends around who share your views and lifestyle. The wrong is when fake becomes the only thing that is worth reaching out for. When a person is not good enough without those things that can be bought and attached and a body which is molded to match a standard of looking like an ultra feminine female, just the way you feel you should. The wrong is when this is the best we can get to become and dream about and walk in. The worse is calling it reality. Calling it real..the real you.
What’s wrong with it? Probably everything. Shouldn’t we be concerned and think about the reasons why people feel bad about the way they look, about body parts that do not fill the requirements, requirements that are more and more imaginable and artificial, born via images and entertainment around us? Have us think the good and the desirable and make us want to be successful through surgery and publicity, via total modification of the seen, to be a creation. Many say why not, as long as you are happy. It is there to be reached out.
Sentences like: I wanted to be pretty and be admired for that, but now I hate myself after plastic surgery went wrong badly. I almost died. It was done by an incompetent doctor, of course. Not because you had ludicrous ideas how you should look like. Such can happen since plastic surgery is not without risks. People despair painfully for the good looks, it is, I suppose, biological, but people want to deny biology, don’t they? So badly it is sickening to look at and sad as hell. It truly is all what one is and when looks is gone you are done for. The most sickening part of this pain is someone thinking one is all wrong on the outside, in wrong body and what is outside of one is that needs repair, a correction. Being beyond repair is a failure as such, wanting to be liked and loved for what you look like, when you do not like the way you look and other people like to comment your looks to make sure you do feel there is something wrong with you and make sure you do not fit in and do not feel comfortable, are you sure it is you who is flawed? Seeking comfort in your body is like getting lost in a forest. Being comfortable in your body means one should aspire to take care of it, not mutilate and vandalize it and definitely not do what others tell you should look like. The definite and absolute end of life today is ugliness, old and worn out looks. People who want youthful feminine looks without trace of old age seek science fiction, being over forty is today too old even with surgery. Who takes interest in you when you do not fit the beauty standards, when you do not look fresh and young? Maybe we should ask, who cares. Oldies are a big varied group of people with skills and knowledge. Why reject them, us? Because of prejudice? Isn’t today for variety and acceptance, not brutality and bullying? I guess not.
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