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Nel linguaggio Lakota (Sioux del West) la parola “animale” non esiste, perche’ gli animali sono visti come fratelli e sorelle.

Per confronto, nella seconda meta’ del diciannovesimo secolo l’uomo bianco Europeo (recentemente arrivato dall’Europa) stermino’ i bufali per indurre gli indiani d’America a vivere in abitazioni sedentarie.

Curioso notare come la parola Sioux, termine offensivo che significa “serpenti”, sia stata praticamente adottata dal linguaggio Italiano al punto da essere quasi un sinonimo di “Indiani d’America”.

Ah, già. Che coglione che sono. Dimenticavo che per molti non e’ offensivo dire “Sioux”, come non è offensivo dire “negro”, ed è solo ipocrisia offendersi per cosi’ poco…. ma sì, continuiamo pure a sbattercene le palle.

This is sad. I just learned (from a post of Candye Kane’s blog) that Jello Biafra was sued by the (I guess reformed) Dead Kennedys because he refused to use a song in a car commercial. I don’t know when this happened, but the post is dated August 2005. Anyway, it’s not the first case of dispute with the D.K.. In 1998 the same thing happened for the song “Holidays in Cambodia” and Levi’s Dockers, as it is mentioned here. How sad.

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Just when I thought it is time for a new kind of (software) corporation, I found there is something close enough to my thinking, that even goes beyond the scope of software corporations: Antipreneur, from the Adbusters guys.

We’re talking about a new breed of bottom-up enterprise that does things differently: promotes ethics over profit, values over image, idealism over hype. A brand of grassroots capitalism that deals in products we actually need — and believe in. No sweatshops. No mindfucking ads. Just sustainable, accountable companies. Run by us.

Imagine a chain of restaurants serving only locally-sourced food. Or an artist-controlled radio network. Instead of Nikes? Blackspot Sneakers. Instead of McDonald’s, Warner Music and Microsoft?