The Capitalist-Consumerist Ethic

We are all good consumers. We buy countless products that we don’t really need, and that until yesterday we didn’t know existed. Manufacturers deliberately design short-term goods and invent new and unnecessary models of perfectly satisfactory products that we must purchase in order to stay ‘in’. Shopping has become a favourite pastime, and consumer goods have become essential mediators in relationships between family members, spouses and friends. Religious holidays such as Christmas ...

 Mandarin Curses from the Show "Firefly"

Cow Sucking吸牛 ・ Shee-niou - xī niú A Baboon's Asshole狒狒的屁眼 ・ FAY-FAY duh PEE-yen - fèi fèi de;dì;dí pì yǎn Extraordinarily Impatient Buddha (True Patience of Buddha)真沒耐性的佛祖 ・ Jen mei NAI-shing duh FWO-tzoo - zhēn méi;mò  nài xìng de;dì;dí fú;fó zǔ Dog Fucking狗操的 ・ Go tsao de - gǒu cāo de;dì;dí Panda Piss熊貓尿 ・ Shiong mao niao - xióng māo suī Frog-Humping Son of a Bitch青蛙操的流氓 ・ Ching...

 Ignorance as Friction

Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance, what Buddha called 'the greatest evil in the world.' The friction which results from ignorance ... can be reduced only by the spread of knowledge and the unification of the heterogeneous elements of humanity. No effort could be better spent.