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hestmord: astrophobe: aresnakesreal: i hate monopoly it is like some old white guy was sitting around and then thought to himself, what if we could make capitalism fun? well you tried and you failed dipshit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_board_game_Monopoly it was actually created by a Georgist to illustrate the principle that rent makes landlords richer and tenants poorer.…
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uwmspeccoll: Book/Not Book This week we showcase a new acquisition: Peter and Donna Thomas‘s presentation of Naomi Shihab Nye‘s poem Sometimes I Pretend, produced with rainbow-roll printed wood type and paper-pulp printed images on handmade paper in an edition of 35 copies signed by the artists. The work is presented as a double-sided scroll housed…
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But America is different. America is violent. America was founded upon violence, it is addicted to violence, it sanctifies the capacity for violence. The twin original sins of America — indigenous genocide and African slavery — have still not been fully owned and confessed. (Government genocide against Native Americans is virtually never mentioned — mostly…
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blech: Russell Davies: Brutal: Went to see The Brutalist Playground at RIBA. You can imagine what I was imagining. Lots of drawings and information and small type and long words about council estates and and architecture and play. Well, I couldn’t have been more wrong. All there seems to be, in fact, is some brutalist…