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Today in "the fall of western civilization": Meditation Apps
Many of the "successful" western meditation mobile apps promote their service using images of beautiful young people with their smart phones in their hands and wireless headphones in their ears, while gently smiling and pretending to be casually "meditating" in their designer living rooms or offices. This is late capitalist bullshit at its finest - Namaste! (image source)
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Ewige Blumenkraft
Ewige Blumenkraft in German means "eternal flower power". During the 1968 US Democratic National Convention, after Senator Abraham A. Ribicoff criticized Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley for instructing the Chicago Police Department to harshly treat antiwar protesters, Daley yelled at Ribicoff the phrase " Ewige Blumenkraft ". Based on these elements, and others, Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson explained in the Illuminati Trilogy that ewige Blumenkraft und ewige Schlangenkraft ( "eternal flower power and eternal serpent power") was an Illuminati motto.
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Joke as a weapon. Five theses on “fun guerrilla”
Spaßguerilla – literally fun guerrilla – is a particular creative concept that emerged within the 1960s German student protest movement. Agitating for social change, a more libertarian, less authoritarian and less materialistic society, Spaßguerilla was all about using tactics characterised by disrespectful humour and provocative actions to mock the routines of ordinary politics in a conservative Germany.
