This post is already too long. Cartagena wouldn't hold dear to me if it was just another Spanish inquisition Museum... jotting notes of the place reminded me oh so much of my home, Togo.
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Teetering on the brim of the valley, as the city molded into a vat, resting
pretty on the landscape dissipated into the sunset.
Torpedoed at the orient by tall and hallucinating structures dominating the
valley.
Nights of a thousands stars, approaching or leaving the city is an unforgettable
and dazzling light show.
Fast city, of a thousands vices, also of a thousands of careless joys, beyond
sunrise, unending dancing, from Wednesday to Sunday, leaving two novel days, a
gallant attempt
There’s no holiday that makes me more conflicted than the Fourth of July. Fan of
history, geography and flags I knew how to sing the Splanged banner by 9 and
wanted to join it’s Navy by 12. Just as today, by virtue of aspirations to its
ideals: Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, I felt American. Native of a
nation so divided there’s no forseen political solution to its aches, my
idolatry of America was the antidote to my homeland’s fate.
Can we inhibit ourselves first in the greatness o
When your authority’s cultural and moral values differ from yours, it may not
matter whether you agree in essence, they simply are not yours; you then
naturally seek to discredit that authority either by rationally poking holes at
their values, which consequently could mean decimating yours as well in the
process, and applying a platinum standard for cases where the discredit doesn’t
affect your end of the bargain, or going further by simply mounting antiquated
or even irrelevant arguments, whic
So I torture myself by following Breitbart and Milo Yiannopoulos but I also
follow CAFE and The Young Turks or Occupy Democrats. My whole premise for doing
this is, there has always been opposing views historically, I genuinely refuse
of only feeding myself with thoughts that echo my own beliefs, somewhere in
there is hidden a truth.
But this was not the most shocking thing I’ve read in the past few months, in
context, it’s just to highlight how dangerous propaganda is and how in 2030 the
kids o