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- Let’s not forget what global economies do: get the people with the least amount of rights to do the most labor for the least amount of compensation possible.
- The systems we have built are simply too big; ‘too big to fail’ is a misnomer — governments, banks, schools, and so on, are simply ‘too big to succeed.’
- Deep irrationality can be whipped up at any moment, and, in fact, is. Hatred, feel, paranoia.
- The constant in all civilization is the scapegoat, the extra, non-human stuff that is thrust beyond the city’s walls, so that the city itself can feel secure.
- Something very bad happened when we defined rights by our position in the labor market, rather than in relation to the earth we born on.
- The constitution says all men are created equal, but the idea has never actually been put into practice (funnily enough).
- Trump is essentially Washington’s scapegoat — for being too visibly corrupt a politician, rather than a tacitly corrupt politician like all the rest.
- Nature trickles up through language into music.
- An artist cannot draw inspiration from “The System” as they once did “Nature” expect the same results.
