“I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time – when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest […]
Category Archives: Quotes
It’s All In Your Head
“Today I escaped from the crush of circumstances, or better put, I threw them out, for the crush wasn’t from outside me but in my own assumptions.” —Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 9.13
Told a False Story
“Everyone listening to this will know someone who works really hard, at a job they hate, to buy a load of shit they don’t need, that they display on social media to get people to go “OMG so jealous”, and then they feel a peculiar emptiness, because they’ve done what they’re meant to do. They’ve […]
“This nonsense of earning a living.”
“We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We […]
If
“If you’re free you’ll never see the wallsIf your head is clear you’ll never free fallIf you’re right you’ll never fear the wrongIf your head is high you’ll never fear at all”Chris Cornell, ‘Exploder’, Audioslave, 2002