------------------------------------------------------------------ Profits are often highest in nations going fastest to ruin. -- Adam Smith, as quoted by Michael Hudson in "Killing the Host" ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 800 ------------------------------------------------------------------ I'm not anti-management, i'm anti-idiot; but as the two groups intersect so often, i use the terms interchangeably. -- Dilbert ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 801 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Nothing he's got he really needs - 21st century schizoid man. -- King Crimson, "In the Court of the Crimson King" (1969) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtwtrsVmOjY The NOTHING MAN ... is packed, educated, and processed ... he screws, but he does not love ... he hates hates hates HATES! ... he lives on you and me -- The Deviants, "PTOOFF!" (1967) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AkehG9Zh4c&t=14m25s ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 802 08/016 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Mit dem klassischen Liberalismus hat der neo-'Liberalismus' nichts zu tun, ausser Missbrauch des Namens. Neo-'liberalism' has nothing to do with classical liberalism, except abuse of the name. [my transl.] -- -- Prof. Rainer Mausfeld, im Gespraech mit KenFM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwRNpeWj5Cs (( eeendlich jemand, der dies klar zum Ausdruck bringt, was ich auch schon seit Jahren "predige" )) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 803 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without plowing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one. But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. -- Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ We live here in the United States of Amnesia. No one remembers anything before Monday morning. Everything is a blank. They have no history. -- Gore Vidal in "WHY WE FIGHT" (2005) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 805 ------------------------------------------------------------------ There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true. The other is to refuse to accept what is true. -- Soren Kierkegaard ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Action is the antidote to dispair. -- Edward Abbey (1927-1989) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ "In a gentle way, you can shake up the world." Mahatma Gandhi ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 808 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Anger is more useful than despair. -- ancient wisdom; quoted e.g. in Terminator-3 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Capitalism means: buying things you don't need with money you don't have to impress people you don't like. Kapitalismus heisst: Man kauft Dinge, die man nicht braucht, mit Geld, das man nicht hat, um Leute zu beeindrucken, die man nicht leiden kann. -- Volker Pispers ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 810 ------------------------------------------------------------------ [S]hort of setting fire to a forest, flying is the single worst thing an ordinary individual can do to cause climate-change. -- Lisa Guy in "The Age of Stupid" (2009), http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1300563 FLYING == (contribution to) MASS MURDER For years now well-known: many more people are injured+killed by pollution from planes (same for cars, of course) than by accidents. And this is killed NOW, NOT taking into account long-term effects (like the ongoing Environmental Holocaust) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Once weapons were manufactured to fight wars. Now wars are manufactured to sell weapons. -- Arundhati Roy (*1961) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 812 ------------------------------------------------------------------ If micosoft would run restaurants ... the waiter would sneeze and drool on your plate and charge you extra for each of that. ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ "The junk dealer" e.g. MICRO$OFT "does not improve and simplify his merchandise. He degrades and simplifies the victim." ~~ WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS, in Naked Lunch, 1958 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 814 ------------------------------------------------------------------ "Political Correctness" is Fascism masquerading as manners. Fascism is capitalism in decay. -- 'Lenin' (1870-1924) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ CAPITALISM - Where you can ENSLAVE fellow humans and RAPE the planet - and be praised for your GOOD busines sense. -- FKNZ, the Fucking Newz, 10/016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wct86VOw7uY ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 816 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Vivere tota vita discendum est et, quod magis fortasse miraberis, tota vita discendum est mori. -- Seneca (Lucius Annaeus, ca. 4 BC - 65 AD) Leben musst Du das ganze Leben lang lernen, und -- darueber wirst Du Dich vielleicht noch mehr wundern -- auch Sterben musst Du das ganze Leben lang lernen. (The art of) Living you have to learn all life long, and -- which may amaze you even more -- all life long you have to learn (the art of) dying. (my [attempt at at] translation) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ It isn't hope that keeps me going. It's that not going on just isn't an option. -- Tanya Huff, "Heart of Valor" ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 818 ------------------------------------------------------------------ The whites carry the greed disease ... They need to be cured, but they usually don't mind their disease, or even recognize it, because it's all they know and their leaders encourage them in it, and many of them are beyond help. -- Buffy Sainte-Marie (Cree) (*1941) as quoted in "Columbus and Other Cannibals: The Wetiko Disease of Exploitation, Imperialism, and Terrorism" by Jack D. Forbes ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Speculators in the 17th century were hanged. Today they receive billions in taxpayer dollars and huge bonuses. -- Chris Hedges in "Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle" (2010) p. 152 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 820 ------------------------------------------------------------------ The [US] porn industry [is] now bigger than Hollywood and pro sports combined. -- Douglas Haddow in www.ADBUSTERS.org #83, June 2009 -- According to the Internet Filter Review, worldwide porn revenues ... topped 97 G$ in 2006. That is more than the revenues of Mega- $hit, oogle, ebay, yahoo, apple, netflix, and earthlink combined. -- Chris Hedges in "Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle" (2010) p. 58 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root. -- Derrick Jensen in Deep Green Video "003 Pull the Fucking Plug" (2016) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWnHFkQEOSY ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 822 ------------------------------------------------------------------ When the oppressors give me two choices, I always take the third. -- Meir Berliner (who killed an SS Scharfuehrer at KZ Treblinka) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ DER MEISTER IN ALLEM "Wo werde ich einen Meister finden, wenn ich in meine Heimat zurueckkehre?" - "Es gibt keinen einzigen Augenblick, in dem du ohne einen bist." - Der Schueler war irritiert. - "Beobachte einfach deine Reaktion auf alles - einen Vogel, ein Blatt, eine Traene, ein Lachen -- und du wirst in allen Dingen deinen Meister finden." -- Anthony de Mello: "Eine Minute Unsinn", ISBN 3451056585, S. 38 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 824 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Never underestimate the power of people to be swayed by what they want to hear. -- C.J. Cherryh in "Protector" (2013) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Man sollte sich nicht unbedingt auf die Worte alter Meister verlassen, sondern an das denken, was wirklich wahr ist. -- Zenmeister Dogen (1200-1253) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 826 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Klugheit: Zwei der groessten Menschenfeinde, Furcht und Hoffnung, angekettet, halt ich von der Menge ab. (FAUST II) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Denn jeder, der sein innres Selbst Nicht zu regieren weiss, regierte gar zu gern Des Nachbars Willen ... (FAUST II) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 828 ------------------------------------------------------------------ In bunten Bildern wenig Klarheit, Viel Irrthum und ein Fuenkchen Wahrheit ... (Goethe - FAUST; ca. 1809) Bright pictures, but obscure their meaning, A ray of truth through error gleaming ... ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ [Always] fiddling with their phones, unable to endure five undistracted seconds. - Scott Westerfeld, "Zeroes" (2015) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 830 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Somebody, after all, had to make a start. What we wrote and said is also believed by many others. They just do not dare express themselves as we did. -- Sophie Scholl (1921-1943), The White Rose Society -- as quoted by Derrick Jensen in "Deep Green Resistance" https://deepgreenresistance.net/preface/copyright-authors-note/ ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ You can't be an environmentalist and [buy and] eat animal products. Period. Kid yourself, if you want. If you wanna feed your addiction, so be it. Just don't call yourself an environmentalist! -- Howard Lyman in "Cowspiracy" (2014) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3302820/quotes?item=qt3281837 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 832 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Wer baute das siebentorige Theben? In den Buechern stehen die Namen von Koenigen. Haben die Koenige die Felsbrocken herbeigeschleppt? [oder auch nur einen?] [...] Der junge Alexander eroberte Indien. Er allein? Caesar schlug die Gallier. Hatte er nicht wenigstens einen Koch bei sich? -- Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Da hab ihr's: Mit Narren sich beladen, da kommt sogar der Teufel selbst zu schaden. -- FAUST II He is not a fool that the fool is, but he that with fools deals. If fools went not to market, bad wares would not be sold. ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 834 ------------------------------------------------------------------ "Annual Income of [F.]Richest 100 People Enough to End Global Poverty Four Times Over" -- Oxfam.org, 2013 https://www.oxfam.org/en/pressroom/pressreleases/2013-01-19/... ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ The hidden hand of the market will never work without the hidden fist. McDonalds cannot flourish without MacDonald Douglass. And the hidden fist that keeps the world safe for Silicon Valley's technologies to flourish is called the U.S. Army, Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps [and even more hidden: CIA, JSOC]. -- Thomas Friedman (*1953) as quoted in -- -- DGR, "The Efficiency Conundrum: False Solutions in the Environmental Movement" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6G2HHeQMbc&t=25m20s ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 836 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Researchers in the 1970s found that roughly 18 M people die every year due [only] to these uneven [(socio)economic] distributions [brought about by capitalism]." -- J.Mertus & J.W.Helsing, "Human Rights and Conflict," 2006, 72 -- -- quoted by P.Joseph in "The New Human Rights Movement" (2017) === [L]ets not 'forget'/repress/deny: The Fourth Reich -- i.e. the current globalized-on-gun-and-cruise-missile-point Empire of a capitalFascist $y$tem -- is [correction, 2021: WAS already even before the Coronoia] easily murdering more people PER YEAR (even not counting e.g. deaths from Cancer, (radioactive) poisoning, or those inflicted on future generations, e.g. by GW, and such) than the Third Reich in all the years of its sorry existence; and that's *human* people, let's not even start thinking about what it is doing to our sister&brother-species! -- Recommended: "The Cult[ure] of Makebelieve" by Derrick Jensen -- wda, ca. 2006 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ The 15 largest ships on the ocean today create more pollution than all of the cars in the world. And that [was] about 800 mio cars [in 2013]. -- The Efficiency Conundrum: False Solutions in the Environmental Movement -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6G2HHeQMbc -- http://www.industrytap.com/worlds-15-biggest-ships-create... Pollution from shipping and the military are NOT INCLUDED in the "Paris accords" HOMO DODO. ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 838 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Not only does structural violence kill more people [currently only dozens of thousand a day -- wda] than all the behavioral violence put together, structural violence is also the main cause of behavioral violence. -- Dr. James Gilligan in "Zeitgeist(3): Moving Forward" (2011) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------ We have been too kind to those who are destroying the planet. We have been inexcusably, unforgivably, insanely kind. -- Derrick Jensen (*1960), www.derrickjensen.org ------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 840 ------------------------------------------------------------------ 1986 | AD SPENDING PER PERSON in $ | 2016 | major media spending per capita | ---------+-----------------------------------+---------- 276 | U$A | 604 0.09 | China | 43 30 | worldwide | 78 -- ADBUSTERS Vol. 25, No. 3, may/june 2017 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Fools admire everything in an author of reputation. -- Voltaire (1694-1778), "Candide" (1759) 1991 Dover edition of anonymous English version ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 842 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Action is the antidote to dispair. -- Edward Abbey (1927-1989) Concern should drive us into action and not into depression. ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Politik ist die Unterhaltungsabteilung der Ruestungsindustrie. -- Frank Zappa Politics is the entertainment department of the military-industrial[-financial] complex. (my transl.) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 844 ------------------------------------------------------------------ ... the true art of shamanism is not about tripping out into other realms but about bringing the healing insights and energies of those realms back into this world ... -- Ritual Approaches to Working with Sacred Medicine Plants An Interview with Ralph Metzner, Ph.D., by Timothy White SHAMAN'S DRUM #51, spring 1999 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ White: I agree that it is most useful to set one's intent or purpose when working with [entheogenic] medicines. However ... the spirits of medicine plants have wills of their own and may override our conscious intentions. They have a tendency to say, "You were looking for something you wanted, but I'm going to show you what you really need to see." [and to sometimes take you by the scruff of your neck and rub your nose in your dirt or to provide you with a good kick in the behind, if need be.] Metzner: Psilocybin mushrooms are [especially] great at doing that sort of thing. [Indeed. As many have found out.] -- Ritual Approaches to Working with Sacred Medicine Plants An Interview with Ralph Metzner, Ph.D., by Timothy White SHAMAN'S DRUM #51, spring 1999 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 846 ------------------------------------------------------------------ In Europe in the late 14th century the Black Death killed a third of the populace in four years. In the immediate wake of the conquest the death rate in Peru was two and a half times as great. -- Wade Davis, Ph.D., in "San Pedro, Cactus of the Four Winds" reprinted from W.D., SHADOWS IN THE SUN (1998, Island) in SHAMAN'S DRUM #52, summer 1999 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ About Psychoactive Molecules ... GOOD DRUGS ... HEMP: Goddess weed, a time-honored Middle-Eastern euphoriant, euphodisiac, relatively benign passages to borders of the red, green, and gold realm. Not recommended for those content with consensus trance. -- Doctor Jabir 'abd al-Khaliq, Ph.D. [Nick Herbert] in ISLAND VIEWS 1.2, winter/spring 1993 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 848 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Forsche nicht, was morgen sein wird. - Horaz Denn von den Gedanken nimmt die Seele ihre Farbe an. - Marc Aurel Ruhe aus! Ein Feld, das geruht hat, traegt herrliche Ernte. - Ovid ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Odi profanum vulgus et arceo. Ich hasse den Poebel und distanziere mich von ihm. I hate the rabble, and i distance myself from them. -- Horaz, Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65-8 B.C.), Carmina 3.1.1 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 850 ------------------------------------------------------------------ It is the way of heaven to take from what has in excess in order to make good what is deficient. The way of man is otherwise. It takes from those who are in want to offer this to those who already have more than enough. -- Tao Te Ching LXXVII, translated by D. C. Lau ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Glueck entsteht oft durch Aufmerksamkeit in kleinen Dingen, Unglueck oft durch Vernachlaessigung kleiner Dinge. -- Wilhelm Busch (1832-1908) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 852 ------------------------------------------------------------------ All institutions of the American government are essentially a gangster syndicate; and everybody knows this. -- Francis Richard Conolly in "JFK to 9/11: Everything Is a Rich Man's Trick" (2014) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Anpassung ist manipuliertes Dahinsiechen. -- Peter Lauster, "Ausbruch zur inneren Freiheit", 1995 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 854 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Jeder Mensch ist etwas Persoenliches und Einmaliges, und an Stelle des persoenlichen Gewissens ein kollektives setzen zu wollen, das heisst schon Vergewaltigung und ist der erste Schritt zu allem Totalitaeren. -- Hermann Hesse (1877-1962), WO??? zitiert in Peter Lauster, "Ausbruch zur inneren Freiheit", 1995 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Umsonst ist jedes Werk, das Du hervorgebracht, wenn Du nicht selbst zum Kunstwerk dich gemacht. Der Adler fliegt allein, der Rabe scharenweise; Gesellschaft braucht der Tor, und Einsamkeit der Weise. -- Weisheit der Brahmanen (von Friedrich Rueckert) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 856 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Since LSD opens up what Aldous Huxley called "the Doors of Perception", it ENHANCES the fields of CREATIVE ACTIVITY. ... LSD [can] provide the user with A NEW CONCEPT OF LIFE, and this new way of looking at life is opposite to the officially accepted view. ... In the future, I hope that LSD provides to the individual a new word view which is harmony with nature and its laws. -- DDr. Albert Hofmann, interviewed by David Jay Brown, 2006 in MAPS, VOL. XVIII, Nr. 2, Summer 2008 http://www.maps.org/news-letters/v18n2/v18n2-16.pdf ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking; where it is absent, discussion is apt to become worse than useless. -- Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoi - (1828-1910) Source: On Life and Essays on Religion ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 858 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Free inquiry requires that we tolerate diversity of opinion and that we respect the right of individuals to express their beliefs, HOWEVER UNPOPULAR THEY MAY BE ... (MY caps) -- Paul Kurtz (1925-2012) in "A Secular Humanist Declaration" 1980 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ This is, in theory, still a free country, but our politically correct, censorious times are such that many of us tremble to give vent to perfectly acceptable views for fear of condemnation. Freedom of speech is thereby imperiled, big questions go undebated and great lies become accepted, unequivocally, as great truths. -- Simon Heffer in the Daily Mail of 7 June 2000 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 860 ------------------------------------------------------------------ There is a familiar checklist for extinction; we are ticking off every item on it. -- Chris Hedges in "Stop Fascism" (Oregon, 017-05-26) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2klcRVZs0g ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Tell no lies. Claim no easy victories. -- Amílcar Lopes da Costa Cabral (1924-1973) quoted by Norman Finkelstein at UoCopenhagen, 02/017 in "50 years of occupation – What now?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bvfKAL7lKk ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 862 ------------------------------------------------------------------ That justice is a blind goddess Is a thing we poor are wise; Her bandage hides two festering sores That once, perhaps, were eyes. -- Lagston Hughes, as quoted by Christian Parenti in "Lockdown America" (1999) ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ The road to hell is paved with corporate profits and compromised NGOs. -- http://www.wrongkindofgreen.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 864 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Once you see it, you can’t unsee it. And once you’ve seen it, keeping quiet, saying nothing, becomes as political an act as speaking out. -- Arundhati Roy (*1961) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ In the land of the pigs the butcher is king. -- MeatLoaf ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 866 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Our way of living - industrial civilization - is based on, requires, and would collapse very quickly without persistent and widespread violence. -- Derrick Jensen in "ENDGAME Vol.I: The Problem of Civilization" (2006) as PREMISE III ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ TELEFONANIE [There is] a danger common to all inventions: a tendency to use them whether or not the occasion demands. -- Lewis Mumford in "Technics and Civilization," 1934 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 868 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Ah, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive! -- Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832), "Marmion" XVII (1808) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ [I]t is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked. -- Hermann Goering in a conversation with Gustave Gilbert, 18.4.1946 during the Nuremberg trials G. M. Gilbert, "Nuremberg Diary," p.278 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Man ging dabei von dem sehr richtigen Grundsatze aus, dass in der Groesse der Luege immer ein gewisser Faktor des Geglaubtwerdens liegt, da die breite Masse eines Volkes im tiefsten Grunde ihres Herzens leichter verdorben als bewusst und absichtlich schlecht sein wird, mithin bei der primitiven Einfalt ihres Gemuetes einer grossen Luege leichter zum Opfer faellt als einer kleinen, da sie selber ja wohl manchmal in kleinen luegt, jedoch vor zu grossen Luegen sich zu sehr schaemen wuerde. Eine solche Unwahrheit wird ihr gar nicht in den Kopf kommen, und sie wird an die Moeglichkeit einer so ungeheuren Frechheit der infamsten Verdrehung auch bei anderen nicht glauben koennen, ja selbst bei der Aufklaerung darueber noch lange zweifeln und schwanken ... -- Hitler: "Mein Krampf", Vol. I, Kap. 10, S. 252, (c) 1925 ... in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility ... in the primitive simplicity of their minds the broad masses more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie ... ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 871 ------------------------------------------------------------------ The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it. -- Albert Einstein. Frei uebersetzt: Die Welt, in der wir leben, ist ein gefaehrlicher Ort - nicht (so sehr) wegen einiger gemeiner Menschen, sondern (v.a.) wegen der Leute, die nichts dagegen machen [und dann sagen 'Wir haben nichts gewusst; wir koennen NIX dafuer!']." ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information (press, radio, education). It is thus extremely difficult, and indeed in most cases quite impossible, for the individual citizen to come to objective conclusions and to make intelligent use of hir political rights. -- Albert Einstein (1879-1955) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Orthodoxy is unconsciousness. -- George Orwell, 1984 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 874 ------------------------------------------------------------------ If people could choose their parents, most of the world would be childless. -- The Cynic's Book of Wisdom (S.A.Swann, 1996) If your dreams turn to shit, just pass them on to your children! -- Teemu Maki (ca. 1990) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ We should remember H. L. Mencken's philosophy. He believed that it is the nature of humans to reject what is true but unpleasant and to embrace what is obviously false but comforting. -- Prof. A.A. Bartlett in his presentation on "Arithmetic, Population and Energy" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3319144/quotes ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Things are always darkest just before they go completely black. -- The Cynic's Book of Wisdom (S.A.Swann, 1996) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 877 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Ich spuere physischen Ekel vor der ordinaeren Menschheit, die im uebrigen die einzige ist, die es gibt. Und manchmal ueberkommt mich Lust ... durch die Strassen zu schlendern und Satzfetzen anzuhoeren ... [um] diesen Ekel zu vertiefen, so wie man ein Erbrechen hervorrufen kann, um den Brechreiz loszuwerden. -- Fernando Pessoa: "Das Buch der Unruhe", S.82 (1982, D 1987) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Wenn Unrecht zu Recht wird, wird Widerstand zur Pflicht! (When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.) -- Bertold Brecht (1898-1956) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ The most incredible aspect of all: these totalitarian elements(*) will not be forced on people, the people will demand [&buy] them. -- ZEITGEIST (2007) *) like idiot-gadgets which (now, 2017) monitor details like the victims' error-rate, response-time, scroll-speed, ... (soon: eye movement, ...); "Alexa/Siri" '"service"'; ... ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 880 ------------------------------------------------------------------ [S]entience without individual and societal self-mastery enables destruction more readily than creation. -- L.E. Modesitt Jr. in "Soarer's Choice" (2006) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Der Grosse Streit der Religionen ================================ ist 2x2 = 5 oder 2x2 = 5.732 oder 2x2 = sqrt(-1/i) ? TOETET ALLE ANDERS- und UN-GLAEUBIGEN !!! == Oh Edelgeborene(r)! ... ERKENNE DIE PROJEKTIONEN DEINES EIGENEN GEISTES! -- Das Bardo Thoedol, in ~jedem Kapitel (meist mehrmals) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 882 wda 2016 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Wer den Dollar nicht ehrt, wird mit Bomben bekehrt! ~ W.E. Kurtz ~ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSBqeOLs_ds ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ The most basic commandment of our [i.e. the globalized "Western", meganeurotic] culture: Thou shalt pretend there is nothing wrong. -- Derrick Jensen in "Language Older than Words," Ch. 8 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Screen-culture is not only addictive, it's obsessive-compulsive addictive. -- Katina Michael in "Stare...my pretties" I think we are becoming more and more stupid. -- Dominic O'Brien (Eight time World memory Champion), ibid. == == == sHe did each thing as if sHe did nothing else. Charles Dickens (1812-1870) == == == Today, over 3.8 billion people are online. 2 billion active facebook users, every month. Average adult spends 8+ hours a day with screens. - More time than sleep... Within 15 minutes of waking up, 4 out of 5 'smartphone' users are checking their phones. By the time the average person reaches 70, they will have spent the equivalent of 10 to 15 years of their life watching TV. - 4+ years just watching the ads... -- "Stare Into the Lights My Pretties" (2017) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt7762882/quotes https://stareintothelightsmypretties.jore.cc/ ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 883 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Each hour, some 600,000 trees are cut down. -- Derrick Jensen in "Bright Gren Lies" (upcoming) 3.5 billion to 7 billion trees are cut down per year. -- https://www.ran.org/how_many_trees_are_cut_down_every_year ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Industrial humans produce about as much plastic each year as the weight of all humans combined. -- Derrick Jensen in "Bright Green Lies" (upcoming) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ The number of lives that will be lost because of the damaging impacts of climate change is in the hundreds of millions - to me, it's not just a crime against humanity, it's a crime against the planet. -- Michael Mann, in "The Doubt Machine" (2017), as quoted in P.D.Garter & E.Woodworth's "Unprecedented Crime" (2018) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 886 ------------------------------------------------------------------ every minute... ... ... 20 tons of plastic waste are being dumped into the ocean ... 380 tons of fish are being caught - 1/3 of it being uselessly killed "by-catch" ... ... 70 acres of forest are being cleared worldwide ... 42,000 tons of CO2 are being blown into the atmosphere ... ... human population increases by ~ 150 ... -- Momentaufnahme/Snapshots (AT 2008; 16 min) http://www.MOMENTAUFNAHME.at ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% happy "world ocean day" 2018 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Wenn du imstande bist, dem Leben ins Gesicht zu lachen, erhaeltst du Macht ueber die Welt - genau wie alle, die darauf vorbereitet sind, zu sterben. -- Anthony de Mello, "Eine Minute Unsinn" (1993) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ There's a myth, online, that what we are doing is 'free'. But all that's happened is that the place, where revenue and value is extracted from us, has been shifted. -- Douglas Rushkoff in Stare Into the Lights My Pretties (2017) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt7762882/quotes https://stareintothelightsmypretties.jore.cc/ ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 889 ------------------------------------------------------------------ HOME wherever the place I'm in. -- Gentle Giant, "Octopus" ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ I know that we won't see a revolution, 'cause if people pay for water in a plastic bottle, they're going to suffer any indignity. -- Derrick Jensen in "How many environmentalists does it take to change a lightbulb" YT.watch?v=BrvfTpWP-g8 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 891 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Instead of Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall, this new generation will know Blizzard, Flood, Heat and Fire. -- "New seasons with new names" by Roger Ebert; suntimes.com, 2013 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 892 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Join in the battle, wherein no man can fail. For whoso fadeth and dieth, yet his deeds shall still prevail. -- William Morris quoted in "Land and Freedom" (1995) imdb.com/title/tt0114671 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ The fate of all mankind, I see, is in the hands of fools. -- King Crimson (1969) "In the Court of the Crimson King" ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 894 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Die Heuchelei gehoert bis heute zu den widerlichsten, doch wesentlichsten Charakterzuegen des Christentums. Hypocrisy until today remains one of the most disgusting, but most fundamental traits of christianity. (my transl.) -- Karlheinz Deschner in "OPUS DIABOLI - 15 unversoehnliche Essays ueber die Arbeit im Weinberg des Herrn" (1987), S. 94 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Man kann dem Christentum vieles und Ungeheuerliches vorwerfen, man muss es, und es gibt keine Entschuldigung dafuer. Unter allen Vorwuerfen der schwerste aber ist der: es hat die Menschen nicht gluecklicher, es hat sie ungluecklicher gemacht. -- Karlheinz Deschner in "OPUS DIABOLI - 15 unversoehnliche Essays ueber die Arbeit im Weinberg des Herrn" (1987), S. 114 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 896 ??? ------------------------------------------------------------------ The plebeians of the world are compelled by force of arms to follow the law. Operatives of the Global Gangster Network are protected by the "unholy trinity" [sensu John Ralston Saul] of corruption, violence, and impunity. -- Doug Mackenzie ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 899 ca. 1.10.018 continued in words0.txt ....