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- The progress of our lives is structured by the products we buy. We know ourselves through our things.
- The progress of our lives is structured by the media platforms we use. We know ourselves by our followers.
- People think, computers calculate. So what do you call a person who can only calculate, but can’t think?
- Law of system’s blindness: Don’t trust systems because you can’t see them. Ever.
- Where there is profit, there is a system.
- Foucault: “Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, hospitals, which all resemble prisons?”
- Nature is the only system worth study because it’s the only system that isn’t for profit.
- We are inmates of capitalism.
- Memorization is a cognitive technology. Memorize poems to save your soul — both your secular soul and otherwise.
