We got rich by violating one of the central tenets of economics: thou shall not sell off your capital and call it income. And yet over the past 40 ye….

People look at the future and see a black hole. They look at climate change and see an ecological crisis. They look at their leaders corrupted by mon….

The story in America was a vibrant, bottoms-up democracy subverted by corporations and financial speculators. Those people now control much of the na….

Corporations are not legal "persons" with constitutional rights and freedoms of their own, but legal fictions that we created and must therefore cont….

A meme (rhymes with dream) is a unit of information (a catchphrase, a concept, a tune, a notion of fashion, philosophy or politics) that leaps from b….

There is a profound injustice at the heart of the American economy. You look at the media and realize that these corporate-run commercial entities ar….

The most powerful narcotic in the world is the promise of belonging..

In the Soviet Union you weren't allowed to speak out against the government. In the US you cannot speak out against sponsors..

All of us somehow felt that the next battleground was going to be culture. We all felt somehow that our culture had been stolen from us-by commercial….

I want to live in a world where human beings, not corporate entities, create the future..

The global economy is a doomsday machine that must be stopped and reprogrammed..

It's a measure of the depth of our consumer trance that the death of the planet is not sufficient to break it..

I believe that one of the most powerful things of all is aesthetics..

People have tried all kinds of ways to fix things, like electing Obama and having a debate about decreasing the power of corporations. Then the Supre….

Our mental environment is a common-property resource like the air or the water. We need to protect ourselves from unwanted incursions into it, much t….

There's some idea there, and the power of it comes from the fact that most of the time you'll never be able to answer what it is. It's just there. It….

American culture is no longer created by the people... A free, authentic life is no longer possible in AmericaTM today. We are being manipulated in t….

Overconsumption is the mother of all environmental problems. For the first time in the history of capitalism, consumption itself has become controver….

The commercial media are to the mental environment what factories are to the physical environment.

America, the great liberator, is in desperate need of being liberated from itself - from its own excesses and arrogance. And the world needs to be li….

Jamming a coin into a monopoly newspaper box or liberating a billboard in the middle of the night can be a rather honest and joyful thing to do..