‘Look Up’ | A Poetic Short Film About the Anti-Social Aspect of Social Media

La Oroya: Full Metal Air

After a recent chat on Twitter with a grad student doing research in a particular Peruvian town, I learned about the town of La Oroya that has a smelling plant, recently liquidated by the United States company Doe Run. It provides us with a variety of heavy metals that assist our lives. It also poisons the children of the area.

Watch this documentary. These sorts of things happen to people in our name, for our products, and our convenience.

Process

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Mondays with Alan: The Real You

Mondays with Alan: Life is a Dance

The Marina Experiment

Mondays with Alan: God, Atheism, Good, and Suicide

Mondays with Alan: Dream of Life

Mondays with Alan: I

Mondays with Alan: Reincarnation

Mondays with Alan: Nature of Selfishness

Mondays with Alan: The Problem with Life

Mondays with Alan: No Beginnings

Mondays with Alan: Resonance, Involution & Evolution

On Spending White Privilege

White people often get very agitated upon encountering a discussion about white privilege. It's invisible and unrecognized--and can create a good deal of discomfort in those who do recognize it (or who are forced to recognize it). Too much of our shared dialogue about privilege suggests it's a bad thing--something that white people should feel guilty about. Something that should be avoided at all costs.

...and that's a serious problem. We can't avoid white privilege. It isn't privilege that we've earned. It's senseless to feel guilty about something we have no control over.

However, white privilege isn't something we can ignore. 

White privilege is something that has been given to us by a civilization that has systematically favored white people over all others for hundreds (if not thousands) of years. White people can silently reap the benefits of this unearned privilege or make a choice to spend that privilege wisely.

A friend on twitter passed this clip along in which a women shows the easy and elegant way one person choosing to spend their privilege wisely can change the world.

A white person spending their privilege can help everyone be treated with equality, dignity, and respect. Nobody loses. Everybody wins.

Try it. You might even like it. Be a big spender. 

Mondays with Alan: The Universe

Mondays with Alan: Becoming Nothing

For more musings on nothing, click here.

Mondays with Alan: Consciousness

Mondays with Alan: Ego

Gay Stereotypes: Illustrated

These are fun. Brooklyn-based illustrator Paul Tuller and creative director James Kuczynski have teamed up and are selling these stereotypes reclaiming posters via Society6. A portion of the selling price for each poster goes to the GLSEN campaign "Think B4 You Speak," which raises awareness of the use of homophobic words and phrases.