Tuesday, July 29, 2008

cookies and capitalism


"Capitalism, in essence is objectification-- assigning monetary or numerical value to everything, rather that respecting its actual worth from a human perspective. With objectification from capitalism, trees are not trees, but rather 'natural resources' -- resources to be used, cut down, destroyed; the land rape, fragile ecosystem raped and natural beauty raped. This objectification pervades every aspect of our existence. The filter of objectification can lead humanity into doing some pretty horrific things, such as tattooing numbers on people's arm because they are not humans, but only a number. A culture that puts objectification on a pedestal will end up burning people." (cooper kaminer)

more to come after art history. i love learning!

1 comment:

r.cook said...

hells yeh it is. who thought spray paint could look so good