Something about capitalism, liberalism, and consumerism

There is not much that can tell more about a capitalistic/liberal/almost free society, than how we consume - especially how we consume ecstasy pills.

Here is a big selection of the companies, icons, and symbols that tries or ends up changing the way we experience things like fun, love, sex, beauty, justice, reality etc..

Fun today is something else than it was just 20 years ago, the rules of love has changed significantly since the most modern people gave up the religious marriage ethics, and sex today is defiantly different than it was in 1913 maybe because of the porn industry and the inventions of different kinds of contraception.

It's clear that the Middle Ages had some other beauty ideals than we have today if you look at a painting from the period, where you as well could justify actions that today would be seen as inhuman crimes.

I guess the chemical processes that goes on in our and make us feel things are the same, but the settings and the culture within we can express and unfold ourselves change all the time.

I think this is the reason why I find all these symbols on the pills so interesting. You can see a much bigger selection on Erowid.org. Just click here.

Something about nihilism within literature

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Writer and political activist Tariq Ali has realized, writers can’t change something remarkable in a western society… and I think he’s right. His examples with Huxley and Orwell are both simple and very precise.

I still think words can be powerful though, but the powerful words of our time are not written by writers of fiction, but by spin doctors.

Is that a good or bad? I think it’s fantastic, as it isolates a lot of literature from political morale, from fringe idealism, and parts of society who aren’t interested in literature.

Sure there are still, and I guess there will always be, a lot of writers who are political, but it’s like their fight for changing the world is so impossible that their political aspect of their works fades out in (beautiful) meaningless and controversial aesthetics.