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the things we read, that somehow stick with us, more than they might.
By convention sweet and by convention bitter, by convention hot, by
convention cold, by convention colour: in reality atoms and void.
- Democritus
All media in which you can work directly with the sounds have more in common
with any other than with traditional European techniques of working with
symbols on paper. Can you imagine painting a picture by having to write a set
of instructions for someone else to paint it? But the problem with solo
improvisation is that what you can realize is limited by your technique and
the nature of your instrument. You can't do anything beyond what you can play
yourself, no matter what you hear in your imagination.
- Laurie Spiegel - from [The Expanding Universe]
Now it seems most machines are square - their design has a goal, to create
desire, like a cellphone or a blender or a kid's toy. But what about the
machines that dontt have a goal-based design? These are the round machines of
the future, and we must start making their elements now.
- Peter Blasser ([source])
"Progress means: humanity emerges from its spellbound state no longer under
the spell of progress as well, itself nature, by becoming aware of its own
indigenousness to nature and by halting the mastery over nature through which
nature continues its mastery"
- Theodor Adorno
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilisation.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
they were working: doing what they wanted to do. he was not working. he was
being worked.
- Ursula K. Le Guinn (The Dispossesed)
to be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. it is based on
the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of
compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. what we choose to emphasize in this
complex history will determine our lives. if we see only the worst, it destroys
our capacity to do something. if we remember those times and places—and there
are so many—where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy
to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in
a different direction. and if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have
to wait for some grand utopian future. the future is an infinite succession of
presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of
all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.
- howard zinn
therefore there is no fixed and constant authority, but a continual exchange
of mutual, temporary, and, above all, voluntary authority and subordination.
this same reason forbids me, then, to recognise a fixed, constant and
universal authority, because there is no universal man, no man capable of
grasping in all that wealth of detail, without which the application of
science to life is impossible, all the sciences, all the branches of social
life.
- mikhail bakunin - what is authority? 1870
if we are to investigate the class composition of climate change, the first and central proposition must be that capialism drives climate change, and the class that drives capitalism is the class of capitalists
- nick dryer-witheford, struggles in the planet factory: class composition and global warming
there’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning
- warren buffett (2006)
sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment; cleverness is opinion, bewilderment is intuition
- Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī
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