Occupation: Philosopher Birth: 1943
Never before have people been so infantalized, made so dependant on the machine for everything; as the earth rapidly approaches its extinction due to….
"The people" aren't running anything. That's why technology has replaced politics as the source of ideology. The ideological claims are hollow and ab….
If we once and for so long lived in balance with nature and each other, we should be able to do so again. The catastrophe that's overtaking us has de….
The more the society becomes a technological society, the less it has to hold itself together..
It is our fall from a simplicity and fullness of life directly experienced, from the sensuous moment of knowing, which leaves a gap that the symbolic….
We have the freedom to choose between brand A, brand B, and brand C. That´s about it for freedom..
We are lost, but other animals point to the right road. They are the right road..
We can either passively continue on the road to utter domestication and destruction or turn in the direction of joyful upheaval, passionate and feral….
Culture has lead us to betray our own aboriginal spirit and wholeness, into an ever-worsening realm of synthetic, isolating, impoverishing estrangeme….
We live in an era with no real sense of community or connection to nature..
Everyone can feel the nothingness, the void, just beneath the surface of everyday routines and securities..
I don't think it could be a coincidence that the more technological a society is, the less it connects people..
The liberty that remains to us is essentially the freedom to choose among brands A, B, and C..
Mass society has displaced real community, where people function together and account for their own lives..
I think pushing the ideas is important. I wouldn't say it's more important than action. You can't really separate the two..
There's a hollowness to civilized life. It doesn't appeal to people, and some people react with extreme violence..
If you have a problem in mass society, you call the cops. The experts. You no longer have any operative connection with yourself or others, or with a….
The largely hidden key to the symbolic world is time; indeed it is at the origin of human symbolic activity. Time thus occasions the first alienation….
A great deal of anthropological/ethnological literature describes indigenous peoples who live in oneness with the natural world and one another. Surv….
I do what I do and hope that it might connect with people who are thinking along the same lines..
Republicans don't want to shrink government. They want more and more military, more and more surveillance. They'd like to have the government banning….