#distractions

[dispatchesfromtheclasswar]

#class war #class warfare #classism #capitalism #pro sports #sports stadiums #distractions

[bolderynargi]

#catching fire #ddllg #lol #adolescentes #distractions #uk girls #extramadness #latin music #asmo #let you go

[blackswaneuroparedux]

We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.

C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory

#lewis #cs lewis #quote #solitude #silence #meditation #friendship #finding yourself #femme #society #white noise #distractions #time off

[thepursuitofunderstanding]

When a person can't find a deep sense of meaning they distract themselves with pleasure.

Viktor Frankl

#viktor frankl #frankl #quotes #philosophy #wisdom #life #literature #writer #books #psychology #write #art #artist #idea #ideas #meaning #distractions

[thirdity]

All the resources of our almost miraculous technology have been thrown into the current assault against silence. That most popular and influential of all recent inventions, the radio, is nothing but a conduit through which pre-fabricated din can flow into our homes. And this din goes far deeper, of course, than the ear-drums. It penetrates the mind, filling it with a babel of distractions — news items, mutually irrelevant bits of information, blasts of corybantic or sentimental music, continually repeated doses of drama that bring no catharsis, but merely create a craving for daily or even hourly emotional enemas.

Aldous Huxley, The Perennial Philosophy

#technology #machines #media #sound #silence #information #distractions #quotes #Huxley #Aldous Huxley #The Perennial Philosophy

[gameraboy2]

"Distractions" Stag, April 1969 Story illustration by Samson Pollen

#samson pollen #distractions #1969 #1960s #vintage #pulp #pulp art #painting #art #illustration

[stoicmike]

I go to bed thinking about writing and painting, and I get up thinking about writing and painting. In between, a lot of nonsense gets in the way. -- Michael Lipsey

#writing #painting #life #artist #writer #distractions #hindrances #tasks #work #busyness

[its-all-coming-back-to-meme-now]

#INFP #BPD #borderline problems #borderline personality disorder #living with borderline #distractions #numbing #maladaptive behaviors #coping skills

[sorrygotthesesacks]

They’re so cute.

#twst silver #twst sebek #history class voice lines #distractions #let’s talk about Trein’s cat #Sebek is so easily distracted #but he still works very hard #I just love when their voice lines sound like a conversation

[katkats-world]

i need more friends

#hell is a teenage girl #devine feminine #femcel #gaslight gatekeep girlboss #localy hated #public diary #femcore #manic pixie dream girl #female hysteria #girlblogger #why am i constantly being put in the deepest pits of hell #why do i do this to myself #why am i like this #i want to cry #distractions #depressing shit #depression #ldr aesthetic #gloomy coquette #the female experience #the feminine urge #female manipulator #female insanity #female rage #i hate my liiiiife #i’m bored #i need sleep #i need alc #i need friends #looking for moots

[diszeased]

the only way to win right now is to not be distracted by stupid shit.

#media #distractions

[tomorrowusa]

House Republicans have taken time out from doing nothing (except Speaker drama) all this year to launch an impeachment inquiry. Orders for this move probably came from Donald Trump who is planning his dictatorship of retribution while fighting criminal charges in four courts and civil charges in a fifth.

Considering that Republicans could have done this almost any time in 2023, it's not surprising that they picked a time of improving news on the economic front.

Don't be fooled by GOP dupe influencers claiming that things are worse now than during the Great Depression. Some losers who are economically illiterate seem to be spreading that disinformation. Yeah, when prices are artificially low due to deflation caused by economic catastrophe it doesn't mean people had it easy.

Before Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal got going during his first term, the unemployment rate in the US was 24.9%. That's even worse than it was during Trump's botched handling of the COVID-19 emergency in the US in 2020.

Republicans, if given full power, would drastically cut back or eliminate programs designed to reduce poverty. By coincidence, those programs were initiated under Democratic administrations.

Social Security (Franklin Roosevelt)

Unemployment Insurance (Franklin Roosevelt)

Food Stamps/SNAP (Lyndon Johnson)

Medicare (Lyndon Johnson)

Medicaid (Lyndon Johnson)

Obamacare (Barack Obama)

Republicans claim that those programs increase the debt. But as soon as GOP administrations take office they hypocritically stop worrying about the debt and give gigantic tax breaks to their filthy rich contributors while trying to strangle anti-poverty programs. BTW, Bill Clinton balanced the budget in his second term with revenue raised by increasing taxes on the filthy rich during his first term.

#us house of representatives #house republicans #impeachment #maga mike johnson #distractions #the economy #the great depression #no – things aren't worse now than during the great depression #fewer people live in poverty under democratic administrations #republicans are the main cause of recessions and depressions #election 2024

[alwaysbewoke]

#james baldwin #facts #race #racism #token changes #distractions #white supremacy

[noctis-ibis]

I'm supposed to be working on my novel but there's some good 80s music playing outside and now I can't concentrate on writing the very serious/dark scenes because I'm singing along to "Living on a prayer".

#not that I mind though #being a procrastinator is my fulltime job #and Living on a prayer one of my fav songs #writing #writerslife #writers of tumblr #writeblr #novel writing #music #distractions #procrastination