Occupation: Film-Maker Birth: March 24, 1942
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….
In the Soviet Union you weren't allowed to speak out against the government. In the US you cannot speak out against sponsors..
The most powerful narcotic in the world is the promise of belonging..
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….
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….
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….
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….
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….
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..
I want to live in a world where human beings, not corporate entities, create the future..
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….
The commercial media are to the mental environment what factories are to the physical environment.
In the global marketplace of the future the price of every product will tell the ecological truth..
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….
I believe that one of the most powerful things of all is aesthetics..
It's a measure of the depth of our consumer trance that the death of the planet is not sufficient to break it..
The global economy is a doomsday machine that must be stopped and reprogrammed..
Corporations are not legal "persons" with constitutional rights and freedoms of their own, but legal fictions that we created and must therefore cont….
Overconsumption is the mother of all environmental problems. For the first time in the history of capitalism, consumption itself has become controver….
An increasing number of people are growing uncomfortable with the gulf between the world's rich and the poor. Ostentatiously splashing your money aro….
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….