“The technology I like is the American paperback edition of Freedom. I can spill water on it and it would still work! So it's pretty good technology. And what’s more, it will work great 10 years from now. So no wonder the capitalists hate it. It’s a bad business model,” said Franzen, who famously cuts off all connection to the internet when he is writing.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/hay-festival/9047981/Jonathan-Franzen-e-books-are-damaging-society.html

"laissez faire" philosophy did not prevent the economically powerful from establishing control over wages, prices, and distribution of goods; it only prevented the government from doing so.

http://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm

Capitalism is the middle ground between fascism and libertarianism.


We must see people simply as people. an enemy is simply whom reconciliation with is impossible or too taxing. we have a lot less enemies than we think.


government propaganda = bad. advertising that reduces autonomy in consumers = perfectly fine


The most selfish people are the ones who argue that everyone is selfish. they've already forgiven themselves for being immoral and apathetic.

Split humanity into owners and workers, and you will quickly see how very weak the owners are.

Unless you're living on the shore, the only nice view you'll have is of our profusely corporate culture


Everything is a waste of money when you're broke.

White privilege: optimist as logic, not fear.

To be jaded in this redundant society is to be consistently observant.

this society slaughters the souls of young men and forces all of their anger to be withheld and forced upon its own ostensibly perceived creator; instead of rightfully attacking the system that produces this repression, they attack the most easiest of foes: women, friends, relatives, or they resolve to game and rituals to express their angst.

Isaac Brock laid the roots that grew and became socialism; ''do you need a lot of what you got to survive?''

Surely the best we can do would yield better results.

“This instrumentalist impoverishment of struggle is not characteristic just of particular parties or currents (Stalinism, Trotskyism and so on): it is inherent in the idea that the goal of the movement is to conquer political power. The struggle is lost from the beginning, long before the victorious party or army conquers state power and ‘betrays’ its promises. It is lost once power itself seeps into the struggle, once the logic of power becomes the logic of the revolutionary process, once the negative of refusal is converted into the positive of power-building. And usually those involved do not see it: the initiates in power do not even see how far they have been drawn into the reasoning and habits of power. They do not see that if we revolt against capitalism, it is not because we want a different system of power, it is because we want a society in which power relations are dissolved. You cannot build a society of non-power relations by conquering power. Once the logic of power is adopted, the struggle against power is already lost.”
— John Holloway - Change the World Without Taking Power

it arrives upon me as I make a smoothie

People that consume fast food, me included, often take a preference and then that becomes what believe is a choice, yet they aren't composing the burgers or frying the fries, so how could they really have choice?

Thus, true liberty and freedom (especially of choice) is the ability to utilize internal components to achieve a desired outcome. A person must be the ultimate decider of how they live and they must use internal reasoning to decide who to be. Now with a community, this means absolute democracy must be upheld. The people must work together to achieve a desired out come and the power must be centralized in the people who compose the society, not people who privatize and own the resources and means of production. Thats like believing in God to help you digest food.