stop being cute you live far away
Bed of Lettuce by Paul Octavious
the day i finally release my inhibitions and feel the rain on my skin it’s over for you bitches
“Get a rat and put it in a cage and give it two water bottles. One is just water, and one is water laced with either heroin or cocaine. If you do that, the rat will almost always prefer the drugged water and almost always kill itself very quickly, right, within a couple of weeks. So there you go. It’s our theory of addiction. Bruce comes along in the ’70s and said, “Well, hang on a minute. We’re putting the rat in an empty cage. It’s got nothing to do. Let’s try this a little bit differently.” So Bruce built Rat Park, and Rat Park is like heaven for rats. Everything your rat about town could want, it’s got in Rat Park. It’s got lovely food. It’s got sex. It’s got loads of other rats to be friends with. It’s got loads of colored balls. Everything your rat could want. And they’ve got both the water bottles. They’ve got the drugged water and the normal water. But here’s the fascinating thing. In Rat Park, they don’t like the drugged water. They hardly use any of it. None of them ever overdose. None of them ever use in a way that looks like compulsion or addiction. There’s a really interesting human example I’ll tell you about in a minute, but what Bruce says is that shows that both the right-wing and left-wing theories of addiction are wrong. So the right-wing theory is it’s a moral failing, you’re a hedonist, you party too hard. The left-wing theory is it takes you over, your brain is hijacked. Bruce says it’s not your morality, it’s not your brain; it’s your cage. Addiction is largely an adaptation to your environment. […] We’ve created a society where significant numbers of our fellow citizens cannot bear to be present in their lives without being drugged, right? We’ve created a hyperconsumerist, hyperindividualist, isolated world that is, for a lot of people, much more like that first cage than it is like the bonded, connected cages that we need. The opposite of addiction is not sobriety. The opposite of addiction is connection. And our whole society, the engine of our society, is geared towards making us connect with things. If you are not a good consumer capitalist citizen, if you’re spending your time bonding with the people around you and not buying stuff—in fact, we are trained from a very young age to focus our hopes and our dreams and our ambitions on things we can buy and consume. And drug addiction is really a subset of that.”
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Johann Hari,
(via bigfatsun)
@ the people who think all nbs are teenagers
this is amazing and beautiful but can I just say: “ain’t going away til I die so get over it” is raw and powerful as FUCK.
So yeah….seeing older Non-binary people is so fucking reassuring. Thank y'all for fighting and paving the way. We will continue the fight to be ourselves!
Dude there’s tons of us out here. We just didn’t have language for it when we were younger.
Reblogging this for my Non-Binary followers and because I like that hat
my new favourite group of people: gen x enbies
Gen X and Elder Millennial (I’m the latter) nonbinary people are everywhere. The closest word I had for understanding my gender identity growing up was “tomboy.” I would’ve loved to have more terminology at my disposal as a preteen/teenager.
s is for slug
i’m enamored by the specificity of this blog. like this is the only post they’ve ever made. this account was solely created for this special little guy. does he know?
fog of war in the grocery store
clicks you. commands you to explore
on it boss
there's cheese in here boss
The difference between a fetish and a kink is that a fetish grows down from the ceiling but a kink grows up from the floor