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she gave it all
you gave her shit
she could've done just anything

Kanye West vs. white mediocrity: The real story behind Beck, Beyonce and “SNL” 40

"We have to believe black artists deserve better than to be told they must sink or soar. We have to believe white artists deserve better than to coast on privilege. We have to believe that we can make it better.

Otherwise, what’s the point?"

Kanye West vs. white mediocrity: The real story behind Beck, Beyonce and “SNL” 40

Maná - "Mi Verdad" a dueto con Shakira (Video Oficial)

one day when the glory comes
it will be ours
one day when the war is won
we will be sure

The Difficulty of Reality

            Cora Diamond’s Philosophy and Animal Life seeks to define the difficulty of reality through an analysis of J.M. Coetzee’s The Lives of Animals. Coetzee’s main character, Elizabeth Costello, is an isolated figure that aims to explain why the differentiation of man and animal is a bigger dilemma than perceived. In Diamond’s piece, certain other authors such as Peter Singer try to criticize Coetzee by proposing that Costello is merely a fictional character encompassing Coetzee’s views. Yet, Diamond tries to demonstrate to the readers that the failure to understand Coetzee’s piece is the same one as the one where we misunderstand ourselves. The difficulty of reality, as proposed by Diamond, is that in the process of immortalizing ourselves through goals, beliefs and careers, we have been conditioned to ignore the “permanent horrors’ of the imagination of death.” (45, Diamond). Our thoughts and reality are in utter conflict whereas the promise of a meaningful reality has become enough to repress the thought of a meaningless one. Costello may be a lonely character but in trying to brush her off as merely fictitious, we fail to see that her isolation is a representation of our own: we have made ourselves into stone, we have created the word “rationality” to divide us from non-beings in an attempt to survive the idea of ever not being. Thus, this contradictory inner conflict is what Diamond describes as the “difficulty of reality.”

Love this photo, i don't know why

Cognitive Dissonance

"...If people undertook a task that they normally would have found quite interesting and enjoyable, but did so while expecting to be rewarded for their efforts, they might engage in a bit of private cognitive analysis complementary to that shown by subjects in the dissonance experiments. That is, they might decide that they had engaged in the relevant task in order to obtain the promised reward, and therefore come to view the behavior in question as less attractive in its own right. In other words, they would come to view such behavior as a means to an end rather than an attractive end in itself, and thereafter, in the absence of a prospect for reward, show relatively little inclination to engage in the task."

This is literally why I've been unable to fully submerge myself in music. At least, academically, or a career level. If I take away the relation that I have with music right now, which is a loving, inspiring level...then I feel as though I might ruin it altogether for myself.

Nearing 20

I have 5 months until I turn 20 and I'm not going to lie, I can already feel all the changes I want to make once I finally enter my 20's.
Out with the old, in with the new.