Zeitgeist III coming out in January 2011?? FUCK yea!

Wait, wait, wait, you haven’t seen (the freely downloadable/streamable) Zeitgeist and Zeitgeist: Addendum? You must be certified crazy.

What is the Monkeysphere?

Number 2.

This one deals with how humans can only really handle caring about the 150 people closest to them. Corporate ethics follow, etc, etc.

A brief (rather unrelated, but really true) excerpt:

First, train yourself to get suspicious every time you see simplicity. Any claim that the root of a problem is simple should be treated the same as a claim that the root of a problem is Bigfoot. Simplicity and Bigfoot are found in the real world with about the same frequency.

Thanks Kev!

5 Reasons The Future Will Be Ruled By B.S.

Well, if you haven’t pieced it together by now, I have my GNST500 class on Wednesday nights, which means I usually come home brain-a-surging and feeling as alive as a sentiocognitive being can be. Then, I usually post some really high-up interesting stuff to fuck with your mind.

This week doesn’t disappoint, though my source this time wasn’t actually university, but my bud Kevan, who forwarded me two awesome links from—believe it or not—cracked.com. (So yes, both are as hilarious as they are enlightening).

This is the first—it touches on many topics, and the title is pretty much spot on. Good work, Mr. David Wong, Senior Editor of Cracked.

While this trailer is pretty sensational—especially considering the film’s grave implications—Roger & Me (Michael Moore, 1989) is indelible.

It points the finger/camera at big business, for sure, but there’s something ephemerally odd and fascinating and foreboding about seeing so many people noticeably trying their best to formulate their own coherent, honest thoughts… and just coming up so unbelievably short.

Whether it be a corporate spokesperson uncomfortably evading questions once their argument seems lost, or a destitute evictee unabashedly enticing sympathy once their own excuses run short, people seem to have a genuinely difficult time dealing with their own thoughts, and coming to terms with their own faults.

I know I must have some wiring mixed up somewhere, but I’m actually endlessly thankful (if at times embarrassed/alienated) that I’m better able to take criticism than complement. Thinking “I’m wrong” is still, after all, thinking, and if there’s one sentiment Roger & Me conferred in me, it’s that I’m extremely lucky to be able to do this (so liberally).

chemicalfreeskinny: Mechanically Separated Chicken, from Fooducate, via Early Onset of Night The photo above has been extensively passed around recently, and for good reason: it’s a peek into the rarely-seen world of mechanically separated meat. ___________________________ GENERAL INTEREST:  MECHANICALLY-SEPARATED MEAT…PROCESSED MEAT / FAST FOOD ____________ Fooducate writes: Someone figured out in the 1960s that meat processors can eek out a few more percent of profit from chickens, turkeys, pigs, and cows by scraping the bones 100% clean of meat. This is done by machines, not humans, by passing bones leftover after the initial cutting through a high pressure sieve. The paste you see in the picture above is the result. Michael Kindt continues: There’s more: because it’s crawling with bacteria, it will be washed with ammonia… Then, because it tastes gross, it will be reflavored artificially. Then, because it is weirdly pink, it will be dyed with artificial color. But, hey, at least it tastes good, right? High five, America! … The resulting paste goes on to become the main ingredient in many of America’s favorite mass-produced and processed meat-like foods and snacks: bologna, hot dogs, salami, pepperoni, Slim Jim-like jerkys, and of course the ever-polarizing chicken nugget, where the paste from the photo above was likely destined. Source: Huffington Post I really hate to say this, but… at least they’re not wasting anything…?

chemicalfreeskinny:

Mechanically Separated Chicken, from Fooducate, via Early Onset of Night


The photo above has been extensively passed around recently, and for good reason: it’s a peek into the rarely-seen world of mechanically separated meat.

___________________________

GENERAL INTEREST: 

MECHANICALLY-SEPARATED MEAT…PROCESSED MEAT / FAST FOOD

____________


Fooducate writes:

Someone figured out in the 1960s that meat processors can eek out a few more percent of profit from chickens, turkeys, pigs, and cows by scraping the bones 100% clean of meat. This is done by machines, not humans, by passing bones leftover after the initial cutting through a high pressure sieve. The paste you see in the picture above is the result.

Michael Kindt continues:

There’s more: because it’s crawling with bacteria, it will be washed with ammonia… Then, because it tastes gross, it will be reflavored artificially. Then, because it is weirdly pink, it will be dyed with artificial color.


But, hey, at least it tastes good, right?

High five, America!

…

The resulting paste goes on to become the main ingredient in many of America’s favorite mass-produced and processed meat-like foods and snacks: bologna, hot dogs, salami, pepperoni, Slim Jim-like jerkys, and of course the ever-polarizing chicken nugget, where the paste from the photo above was likely destined.

Source: Huffington Post

I really hate to say this, but… at least they’re not wasting anything…?