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How youth-led revolts shook elites around the world | World news | The Guardian
Elites have yet to grasp that hunger for meaningful grassroots change and the desire to reclaim agency over a future that appears depressingly predetermined, be it under the crony capitalism and police brutality of Middle Eastern despots or the more sanitised platter of unemployment and austerity being handed down by governments in the west.
via How youth-led revolts shook elites around the world | World news | The Guardian.
Percolator – The Chronicle of Higher Education
The way you gain people’s trust is to earn it over time by repeatedly proving that you deserve it. That, or grow a beard.A recent study in the Journal of Marketing Communications found that men with beards were deemed more credible than those who were clean-shaven. The study showed participants pictures of men endorsing certain products. In some photos, the men were clean-shaven. In others, the same men had beards. Participants thought the men with beards had greater expertise and were significantly more trustworthy when they were endorsing products like cell phones and toothpaste.But, oddly, men with beards were slightly less effective than smooth-cheeked fellows in underwear advertisements. Apparently we don’t want Zach Galifianakis selling us boxers.
BETWEEN THE NAVEL AND THE KNEES | Madame Pickwick Art Blog
BETWEEN THE NAVEL AND THE KNEES | Madame Pickwick Art Blog.
There is an ongoing paranoia, a dread that high culture will be corrupted if new cultural manifestations will be permitted to enter the gene pool- even in the shallow end, ”no jews, negroes and dogs” could be permitted to question the dominance of the mentality of precious object in a gilted frame that separated the cultures through monetary exclusiveness.
Riot anyone?
social inequality derives from the distinction between the haves and the have-nots, and the maintaining of the hierarchy is fundamental in safeguarding status as Thorstein Veblen explained. In our present advertising filled and brand driven world, having luxury objects seems more intensely desired and equally resented than at any other time. Hence, we have this growing anger driven by absence of possession and an equal impulse to obliterate what you can’t. Perhaps looting and burning are based on identical impulses that seek to gratify similar desires. For these have-not dysfunctional shoppers not buying, not participating in the consumer game is a kind of open wound permeating an identity of zero self-esteem and the stigma of marginalization. In a roundabout way its equated with an absence of individual dignity and of meaning in their lives.
via London calling : just leave a message | Madame Pickwick Art Blog.
london : read them the riot act? | Madame Pickwick Art Blog
Brian Alexander:Psychologist and social scientist Dacher Keltner says the rich really are different, and not in a good way: Their life experience makes them less empathetic, less altruistic, and generally more selfish.In fact, he says, the philosophical battle over economics, taxes, debt ceilings and defaults that are now roiling the stock market is partly rooted in an upper class “ideology of self-interest.”“We have now done 12 separate studies measuring empathy in every way imaginable, social behavior in every way, and some work on compassion and it’s the same story,” he said. “Lower class people just show more empathy, more prosocial behavior, more compassion, no matter how you look at it.” Read More:http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44084236/ns/health-behavior/t/rich-are-different-not-good-way-studies-suggest/?fb_ref=.TkLUSw51rS5.like%3B.TkK415dmJdV.like&fb_source=home_oneline#.TkXrEIJJLfJ
via london : read them the riot act? | Madame Pickwick Art Blog.
Culture Jamming: New Subversive Signs of Our Times | WebUrbanist
finding beauty in the abysmal | Madame Pickwick Art Blog
finding beauty in the abysmal | Madame Pickwick Art Blog.
…the classic flower in the dustbin…
by Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com)
THIS is the first punk poster i ever saw. i was attending western washington state college (now, ‘university’) in bellingham, washington. it was 1978 and i was a student trying to build a major for myself, but ended up with so many credits in the art department, that i found myself an ‘art major’.