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Tag Archives: Counterculture
Saturday Matinee: Punk: Attitude
“Punk: Attitude” (2005) is a documentary tracing the roots, meaning and enduring influence of the punk movement of the late 70s and early 80s. Directed by Don Letts, the film offers an insider’s perspective because Letts was a catalyzing agent … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture, Film, Music Video, Saturday Matinee, Video
Tagged Counterculture, Cult Film, Documentary, Don Letts, music, Punk Rock, The Clash, underground music
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The Control-Matrix is Crashing because the Truth-Seekers are Winning
By Phillip J. Watt Source: The Mind Unleashed The way the masses view the world is a farce. Every single mainstream perspective is either purposely deceptive, or completely misses the point. Even the people in places of influence who we’re meant to … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, anarchism, conditioning, consciousness, Conspiracy, Corporate Crime, corporate news, Corruption, culture, Economics, education, Empire, Environment, Geopolitics, Health, media, Militarization, news, Philosophy, police state, propaganda, Psychology, Revolution, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Spirituality, State Crime, war, war on terror
Tagged activism, Big Banks, Big Pharma, Collective Consiousness, corporate media, Counterculture, culture, Economics, Education, environment, Global Awakening, Health, military-industrial complex, police state, politics, Revolution, science, social control, Social Engineering, The Matrix, war
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Counterculture: The Rebel Commodity
By James Curcio Source: Rebel News Let’s talk about being a rebel. Everyone seems to want to be one. But it’s not entirely clear what it means. Does it take camo- pants? A Che T-shirt? A guitar? Is it just … Continue reading
Terence McKenna’s Disillusioned Perspective on Mass-Consumerist Culture
Editor’s note: Since Terence McKenna’s passing on April 3 2000, his ideas have only grown in relevance and popularity largely because of their prescience and resonance to growing segments of internet culture. In commemoration of the 70th anniversary of his … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, consciousness, culture, Philosophy, Psychology, Social Control, society, Spirituality
Tagged Consumerism, Counterculture, culture, Dystopia, Entheogens, Philosophy, society, technology, Terence McKenna
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Indulge . . . & Undermine
Source: CrimethInc. Have you noticed—exhortations to indulge yourself are always followed by suggestions? Adherents of doctrines seek footholds to claim territory within you, salesmen grasp for handles to jerk you around . . . from new-age prophets to advertisers, from … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, anarchism, Art, civil disobedience, civil liberties, conditioning, consciousness, Consumerism, culture, Economics, education, media, Philosophy, Psychology, Social Control, society, Spirituality, Video
Tagged Alan Watts, Anarchism, Counterculture, CrimethInc., culture, Indulge . . . & Undermine, Philosophy, Revolution, society, Society is a Hoax
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Saturday Matinee: Mr. Robot
“Mr. Robot” is one of the rare shows to make it to mainstream cable television with a perspective which may worry corporate sponsors of cable television. It incorporates elements of hacker and anarchist subcultures within its narrative centering on a … Continue reading
Posted in Art, conditioning, culture, Film, media, Saturday Matinee, Video
Tagged Cable television, Counterculture, Fight Club, Mr. Robot, The Matrix
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How to Reclaim your Mind and Life from the Cultural Engineers
By Paul Fassa Source: RealFarmacy.com “We tend to disempower ourselves. We tend to believe that we don’t matter. And in the act of taking that idea to ourselves we give everything away to somebody else, to something else.” – Terence … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, consciousness, culture, Philosophy, Psychology, Science, Social Control, society, Spirituality, Video
Tagged Beau Lotto, Consciousness, Counterculture, culture, Entheogens, How to Reclaim your Mind and Life from the Cultural Engineers, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Paul Fassa, Psychedelics, RealFarmacy.com, Terence McKenna
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