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Anarcha-feminism is...

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...a Woman's Revolutionary Movement [that] must not mimic, but destroy, all vestiges of the male-dominated power structure, the State itself - with its whole ancient and dismal apparatus of jails, armies, and armed robbery (taxation); with all its murder; with all of its grotesque and repressive legislation and military attempts, internal and external, to interfere with people's private lives and freely-chosen co-operative ventures.
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- Red Rosia and Black Maria

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...the creation of a new society by competing with the State directly, rather than relying on voting, electoral politics, or calls for insurrectionary violence.
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Feminagorism is a synthesis of the two: the creation of a new post-patriarchal society by women by building an alternative to patriarchy, rather than relying on men to get their shit together and throw wrenches into the system that benefits them. Think of it as a souped-up female separatism.

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Born to BuyJuliet B. SchorAcademic
High consumer involvement is a significant cause of depression, anxiety, low self-esteem, and psychosomatic complaints. Psychologically healthy children will be made worse off if they become more enmeshed in the culture of getting and spending. Children with emotional problems will be helped if they disengage from the worlds that corporations are constructing for them.
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No LogoNaomi KleinCasual
In the name of protecting the brand from dilution, artists and activists who try to engage with the brand as equal partners in their "relationships" are routinely dragged into court for violating trademark, copyright, libel or "brand disparagement" laws - easily abused statutes that form an airtight protective seal around the brand, allowing it to brand us, but prohibiting us from so much as scuffing it.
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CrapWendy WolosonCasual
An object"s relative crappiness lies in the extent to which it offers false hope, was produced to hasten its own obsolescence, has no clear purpose, and/or has no emotional, utilitarian, or market value.
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AffluenzaJohn de GraafCasual
The more real wealth we have - such as friends, skills, libraries, wilderness, and afternoon naps - the less money we need in order to be happy.
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Life Inc.Douglas RushkoffCasual
The efforts may be local, but the effects are global. Every gallon of gas we don't burn is a few bucks less going to exploit someone in the Middle East. Every student we educate properly has more potential to create value for us all. Every plate of chard we grow is another patch of top-soil saved, another square foot of room on a truck, and another nail in the coffin of Big Agra. Every Little League game we coach is an assault on the obesity epidemic, every illiterate adult we teach to read may become one fewer welfare case to fund, and every hour we spend with friends is that many eyeballs fewer glued to the TV. The little things we do are big, all by themselves.
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Culture JamKalle LasnCasual
Advertisements are the most prevalent and toxic of the mental pollutants. From the moment your radio alarm sounds in the morning to the wee hours of late-night TV, microjolts of commercial pollution flood into your brain at the rate of about three thousand marketing messages per day. Every day, an estimated 12 billion display ads, 3 million radio commercials, and more than 200,000 TV commercials are dumped into North America's collective unconscious.
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The High Price of MaterialismTim KasserAcademic
...we need to feel autonomous and authentically engaged in our behavior. We constantly strive for increased freedom and more opportunities to experience life in a self-directed manner. These needs are most apparent in our strong motivation to express ourselves and to follow our own personal interests. Rather than feeling pressured or burdened by our circumstances, we need to pursue activities that provide us with challenge, interest, and enjoyment. By doing so, we can feel ownership of our own behavior, and thus feel both authentic and autonomous.
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BrandwashedMartin LindstromCasual
...the minute we're born, we may already be biologically programmed to like the sounds and music we were exposed to in utero.
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The Hacking of the American MindRobert LustigCasual
Now look at the corn-fed steak. See all that marbling? We love it, because that's where the flavor is. And after grilling, it practically cuts with a butter knife. That marbling is fat in the muscle. That's muscle insulin resistance. That cow had metabolic syndrome; we just happened to slaughter it before it got sick, and now we're consuming the aftereffects in each and every Big Mac.
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QuiverfullKathryn JoyceCasual
Though all of the sins are condemned, only five are punished with death: male homosexuality, bestiality committed by either a man or a woman, intercourse with menstruating women, and Onan's withdrawal: capital offenses, Provan says, because all are intentionally sterile forms of sex, wasting the sperm of man or animal. Female homosexuality, conversely, is not punished by death because, though wicked, it doesn't spill semen.
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fathermothergodLucia GreenhouseCasual
He said because of Christian Science I haven't needed healings. But how can he even say that if there's no such thing as sickness? If there's no such thing as sickness, there should be no need for healings.
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Stand Out of Our LightJames WilliamsCasual
If you wanted to train all of society to be as impulsive and weak-willed as possible, how would you do it? One way would be to invent an impulsivity training device - let's call it an iTrainer - that delivers an endless supply of informational rewards on demand. You'd want to make it small enough to fit in a pocket or purse so people could carry it anywhere they went. The informational rewards it would pipe into their attentional world could be anything, from cute cat photos to tidbits of news that outrage you (because outrage can, after all, be a reward too). To boost its effectiveness, you could endow the iTrainer with rich systems of intelligence and automation so it could adapt to users' behaviors, contexts, and individual quirks in order to get them to spend as much time and attention with it as possible.

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