“We are a society awash in skillfully manufactured lies. Solitude that makes thought possible—a removal from the electronic cacophony that besieges us—is harder and harder to find. We have severed ourselves from a print-based culture.
We are unable to grapple with the nuances and complexity of ideas. We have traded ideas for fabricated clichés. We speak in the hollow language we are given by our corporate masters.
Reality, presented to us as image, is unexamined and therefore false. We are culturally illiterate. And because of our cultural illiteracy we are easily manipulated and controlled.”
— Chris Hedges
We are unable to grapple with the nuances and complexity of ideas. We have traded ideas for fabricated clichés. We speak in the hollow language we are given by our corporate masters.
Reality, presented to us as image, is unexamined and therefore false. We are culturally illiterate. And because of our cultural illiteracy we are easily manipulated and controlled.”
— Chris Hedges
“The crisis of the modern world is not a crisis of technology or politics or greenhouse gases. It is a spiritual war. What the Machine represents is our ultimate rebellion against nature: against reality itself. We have seen this rebellion before. Now our culture’s rejection of its spiritual core has opened us up to powers and principalities that we have no idea how to manage.”
—Paul Kingsnorth ...
—Paul Kingsnorth ...
“As the creators of sophisticated technologies, we have made ourselves increasingly machine-like; robotic servants of institutional systems we have been conditioned to revere, whose purposes we neither understand nor control, and of which we are afraid to ask questions.
Our corporate-state world plunders, enslaves, controls and destroys us, all in the name of advancing our liberty and material well-being. Most of us are dominated by an unfocused fear of uncertainty, a longing for the security of emptiness.”
― Butler Shaffer
Our corporate-state world plunders, enslaves, controls and destroys us, all in the name of advancing our liberty and material well-being. Most of us are dominated by an unfocused fear of uncertainty, a longing for the security of emptiness.”
― Butler Shaffer
"I settled down to long sweet sleeps, day-long meditations in the house, writing, and long walks around beloved old Manhattan a half hour subway ride away. I roamed the streets, the bridges, Times Square, cafeterias, the waterfront, I looked up all my poet beatnik friends and roamed with them, I had love affairs with girls in the Village, I did everything with that great mad joy you get when you return to New York City."
~ Jack Kerouac ...
~ Jack Kerouac ...
“You make me laugh, with your metaphysical anguish,
it’s just that you're scared silly, frightened of life,
of men of action, of action itself, of lack of order.
But everything is disorder, dear boy.
Vegetable, mineral and animal,
all disorder, and so is the multitude
of human races, the life of man,
thought, history, wars, inventions,
business and the arts,
and all theories, passions
and systems.
It’s always been that way…
What are you looking for?
There is no Truth.
There's only action, action obeying
a million different impulses,
ephemeral action, action subjected
to every possible and imaginable
Contingency and contradiction.
Life.
Life is crime, theft, jealousy, hunger, lies, disgust,
stupidity, sickness, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes,
piles of corpses.
What can you do about it, my poor friend?
-- Blaise Cendrars ...
it’s just that you're scared silly, frightened of life,
of men of action, of action itself, of lack of order.
But everything is disorder, dear boy.
Vegetable, mineral and animal,
all disorder, and so is the multitude
of human races, the life of man,
thought, history, wars, inventions,
business and the arts,
and all theories, passions
and systems.
It’s always been that way…
What are you looking for?
There is no Truth.
There's only action, action obeying
a million different impulses,
ephemeral action, action subjected
to every possible and imaginable
Contingency and contradiction.
Life.
Life is crime, theft, jealousy, hunger, lies, disgust,
stupidity, sickness, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes,
piles of corpses.
What can you do about it, my poor friend?
-- Blaise Cendrars ...
“The main thing that I learned about conspiracy theory, is that conspiracy theorists believe in a conspiracy because that is more comforting. The truth of the world is that it is actually chaotic. The truth is that it is not The Iluminati, or The Jewish Banking Conspiracy, or the Gray Alien Theory.
The truth is far more frightening - Nobody is in control.
The world is rudderless.”
—Alan Moore
The truth is far more frightening - Nobody is in control.
The world is rudderless.”
—Alan Moore
"In waves of creeping dread, I look around as we're sucked into a grinding whirlpool of early-morning traffic, the scenery converted into an eternal rattling swarm of horn-blaring, jittery jalopies, all different hues of speckled rust and dust and decay, darting between rumbling, lumbering trucks and buses packed with dull-faced masses of doomed, eternally damned sinners."
~ Jonathon Shaw ...
~ Jonathon Shaw ...