Ayant compris soudainement qu’on apprend à voyager en voyageant, j’aimerais partager ma très courte expérience avec le monde. C’est peut-être totalement évident, mais j’ai du aller loin de ce qui a un jour été chez moi pour découvrir ces évidences. Less is better, je pourrais commencer par dire, mais vous le savez déjà. Les objets ne compensent jamais pour des humains, aussi. Mais, de façon plus tangible, sachez que même les plus grosses églises du monde ont des services religieux. Si le coût d’entrée de la cathédrale St-Paul vous rebute, pensez donc à vérifier les panneaux qui indiquent quand est la prochaine messe. En vous déguisant en pratiquant (et possiblement vous levant aux aurores), vous pourrez vous infiltrer dans le monument, certes, mais aussi découvrir un service religieux d’une grande beauté. Ce fait est applicable à toutes les bâtisses religieuses du monde. À bon entendeur.

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Neil le hippie m’a donné un livre, en échange du Écotopie que je lui avais déniché. Dedans, un joli extrait:

He would always be one for whom the return was as important as the voyage out. To go was not enough for him, only half enough; he must come back.

[…] the very nature of the voyage, like a circumnavigation of the globe, implied return. You shall not go down twice the same river, nor can you go home again.

You can go home again […] so long as you understand that home ias a place where you have never been.

The dispossessed, Ursula LE GUIN, p. 48.

Utopie anarchiste dans un livre de science-fiction. Unusual and intriguating.

Christine Hope argues that hair removal is a subtle push to return women to a child-like body, “to consider women as less than adults.”

Advertising campaigns like the recent Schick Quattro assault, subtly but deftly assert the razor’s right over the woman’s body. The most expansive and inventive section of the company’s website is titled, “Quattro® Lingo.” The Lingo contains 24 made-up definitions of shaving-related terms, some of the more benign ones including, “Bathtub Tinsel, noun. The ring of itty-bitty hairs and soap film left in the tub after a serious shave.” Others are more loaded, like “Chastity Pelt, noun. What you have on your legs when you intentionally go without shaving before a date as a way of making yourself behave” and “Girlilla Warfare, noun. Temporarily suspending shaving as a way of punishing your mate for something. Could backfire if you end up uncovering a newfound fetish.” The humor in both is dependent on the reader’s assumption that body hair on a woman is disgusting and would thus be a ‘punishment’ for your mate if you didn’t shave, or an incentive not to engage in sexual activity. Not shaving your body hair is self-punishing in regards to your sex life, these two in plainly imply. (Unless, of course your man has a hair “fetish,” the second term concedes; for liking body hair on a woman could only be a deviant “fetish.”)

“I shave because I like it” is a frequent assertion, but a historically inaccurate statement. Women shave because Harper’s Bazaar arbitrarily told them to in 1915.

the simple origins of female body hair removal are enough to make us question this destructive, expensive, and unnecessary cultural habit.

(source, merci laurent)

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Some guerrilla artists are anti-capitalist, some only wear Nike trainers. It’s not a movement that attempts to support or to oppose brand conditioning. It is the general public’s artistic response to it.
Street Art - Wikipedia

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Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

(Thomas Paine)