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"To remember the world is to remember the sound of the world. To listen carelessly is to forget."

"You are what you hear".

"Cumbia sonidera sings in praise of the freedom to be found in small numbers. It reminds us that hyperconnectivity to a sea of strangers doesn't have to be every musician's goal. To consolidate interest around a single figure would end the person-to-person communication that gives the music its social buoyancy."

"In a so-called attention economy, what better way to prove that you've paid attention to something than to remix it?"

Introverts are still social beings. In fact, their well-being is more affected by their social relationships than is the well-being of extraverts. Introverts just go for quality, not quantity.

A person's freedom of learning is part of his freedom of thought, even more basic than his freedom of speech. If we take from someone his right to decide what he will be curious about, we destroy his freedom of thought.

It would not take more than one bad beating to convince me that I was unloved, and if beatings are the price of "love", I can do without it.

Children can be and are regularly punished, by parents and the law, for any of the reasons, and the same reasons for which slaves used to be punished - for talking back, for disrespect, for disobedience, for being at large without permission, for running away - in short, for doing anything that may imply that they think they have any freedom or rights at all.

The real test of the quality of life in a nation, as in a community, is how well the poorest people in it live.

The political risk run by an individualized project of reforming masculinity is that it will ultimately help modernize patriarchy rather than abolish it.

Violence is part of a system of domination, but is at the same time a measure of its imperfection. A thoroughly legitimate hierarchy would have less need to intimidate. The scale of contemporary violence points to crisis tendencies in the modern gender order.

There is, or at least it seems to be, so little work in society that is worth doing, into which one might with good conscience put all one's energy. Most of the work people seem to be doing around us is monotonous, undemanding, boring, and stupid, if not actually dishonest or destructive. The good causes we know all seem like losing causes, and it doesn't help anyone who already feels like a loser to keep on losing.

Nevertheless, Mexican culture as a whole is dominated by a traditional patriarchal ideology. Hence the ambiguous image of the mother figure. For while fieldworkers may find that their mother is the dearest being in their life, popular culture demonstrates a profound devaluation of the mother in common street expressions: Chinga (fuck) tu madre, Vale (it's worth a) pura madre, Dale (hit him) en la madre.

The campesinos and poor urban dwellers have a realistic view of women's roles in society, since they see them working and struggling. Women are not necessarily perceived as weaklings because reality contradicts the stereotype. They see their women family members struggling for survival as maids, factory workers, clerks. For the poor, women are not pampered dolls but hard-working partners.

The family even as most people knew it in this country a hundred years ago has been almost entirely destroyed. The family was in turn very different from the European family of three hundred years before, when the whole notion of the home and the family as private have not been yet invented.

The family even as most people knew it in this country a hundred years ago has been almost entirely destroyed. The family was in turn very different from the European family of three hundred years before, when the whole notion of the home and the family as private have not been yet invented.

Gynocidal themes and imagery have become commonplace not only in overt pornography, but have moved comfortably and ubiquitously into mainstream products as well.

Mankind, which in Homer's time was an object of contemplation for the Olympian gods, now is one for itself. Its self-alienation has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order.

The hoary story of Adam and Eve is dragged in to legitimate what was the most disastrous campaign of blame ever erected against women.

Prostitutes were to the Victorians what the witches were to the Medievals.

In the patriarchal vocabulary, all sex killers are frightened, abused and terrorized little boys, victims of their mothers. Do any of those who so wholly subscribe to this logic ever pause to wonder why little girls - overwhelmingly the actual victims of abuse by fathers and father figures - do not grow up to enact wholesale slaughters against men?

When identity is unknown, legends can be fertilized which present the boy or man as anyone - a crown prince, the incarnation of a magical or eternal force, a son of the devil or a son of god.

Placentophagia is not such an unusual behavior for most mammalian mothers in the perinatal period. Nevertheless, many women of modern cultures do not eat their placentas, as they have a learned response to it: revolting, even associated with cannibalism. How can it be cannibalism, when it is the only meat we can get from birth, rather than meat obtained by killing a sentient being?

If the idea of eating placenta is revolting to you, ask yourself: How come? A mother's placenta is exactly formulated to give her optimal benefits. No other animal meat will come close to helping her as much as her own placenta. the placenta is so rich in nutrients that it is believed to prevent postpartum depression when ingested. It contains iron and all the minerals that a high-quality meat can offer.

Whenever we see the placenta, cord and baby (root, stem and fruit) intact, we call this a Lotus Birth.

When none of the medications worked, the hemorrhaging stopped immediately within minutes of the mother ingesting a small bit of her own placenta.

We're seeing an increase of velamentous umbilical cord insertion and short cords since the introduction of GMO foods to Indonesia.