The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.
Lily Tomlin
#494
For my part, I do not believe there is ‘one solution’ to the social problems, but a thousand different and changing solutions in the same way as social
existence is different and varied in time and space.
Errico Malatesta
#465
You can’t blow up a social relationship. The total collapse of this society would provide no guarantee about what replaced it. Unless a majority of people had the ideas and organization sufficient for the creation of an alternative society, we would see the old world reassert itself because it is what people would be used to, what they believed in, what existed unchallenged in their own personalities.
Anarres Books Collective, You Can’t Blow up a Social Relationship
#463
I believe, in spite of a long tradition of sometimes tragic intellectual errors, that observing, analyzing, and theorizing are a way of helping to build a different, better world. Not by providing the answers – that will be specific to each society and found by the social actors themselves – but by raising some relevant questions.
Manuel Castells
#438
In a society that has abolished every kind of adventure the only adventure that remains is to abolish the society.
Situationist graffiti of May 1968
#436
EVERY HUMAN BEING IS AN ARTIST who – from his state of freedom – the position of freedom that he experience at firsthand – learns to determine the other positions in the TOTAL ARTWORK OF THE FUTURE SOCIAL ORDER… …THE FIFTH INTERNATIONAL IS BORN.
Joseph Beuys
#435
Tears on the mausoleum floor,
blood stains the Colosseum doors
Lies on the lips of a priest,
Thanksgiving disguised as a feast
Kayne West ft.. Frank Ocean & Jay-Z, No Church in the Wild
#424
“Where are the people?” resumed the little prince at last. “It’s a little lonely in the desert…”
“It is lonely when you’re among people, too,” said the snake.
Antoine de Saint Exupéry, The Little Prince
#423
Remember that the media have two basic functions. One is to indoctrinate the elites, to make sure they have the right ideas and know how to serve power. In fact, typically the elites are the most indoctrinated segment of a society, because they are the ones who are exposed to the most propaganda and actually take part in the decision-making process. (…) But there’s also a mass media, whose main function is just to get rid of the rest of the population — to marginalize and eliminate them, so they don’t interfere with decision-making.
Noam Chomsky, Understanding Power
