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Quote for the day – April 30

30 Thursday Apr 2015

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David Watson, Megamachine

David Watson against the megamachine

“Mechanization and industrialization have rapidly transformed the planet, exploding ecosystems and human communities with monoculture, industrial degradation, and mass markets. The world now corresponds more closely to the prophetic warnings of primal peoples than to the hollow advertising claims of the industrial system: the plants disappearing and the animals dying, the soils denuded along with the human spirit, vast oceans poisoned, the very rain turned corrosive and deadly, human communities at war with one another over diminishing spoils – and all poised on the brink of an even greater annihilation at the push of a few buttons within reach of stunted, half-dead head-zeks in fortified bunkers. Civilization’s railroad leads not only to ecocide, but to evolutionary suicide”.

David Watson, Against the Megamachine

 

 

 

 

Quote for the day – April 29

29 Wednesday Apr 2015

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Colin Wilson, Outsider

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“The Outsider’s way of thinking is called existentialism. But it might as easily be called religion. It is a way of thought which, like the religious way, regards man as involved in the universe, not just a spectator and observer, a sort of naturalist looking at the universe through a magnifying-glass and murmuring: ‘Mmm. Most interesting’”.

Colin Wilson, Religion and the Rebel

 

 

 

 

Quote for the day – April 28

28 Tuesday Apr 2015

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Renaud Garcia

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“In this world of artifice, going beyond the surface to a deeper level, that of the sheer essence of things, is no longer conceivable”.

Renaud Garcia, Le Sens des limites

[Read about Renaud Garcia on the orgrad website]

Quote for the day – April 27

27 Monday Apr 2015

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Augustin Berque

Augustin Berque

“The milieu depends on the being and, vice versa, the being depends on the milieu. Each term supposes the existence of the other and also creates the other”.

Augustin Berque, Là, sur les bords de l’Yvette

Quote for the day – April 26

26 Sunday Apr 2015

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Jacques Ellul

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“When it’s a question of the dangers, costs, and so on, the scientist or technician, who has run out of arguments, closes down the discussion with ‘In any case, we can’t stand in the way of progress’. There is thus something here which is absolute, unassailable, against which we can do absolutely nothing, which human beings must simply obey”.

Jacques Ellul, Le bluff technologique

[Read more about Jacques Ellul on the orgrad website]

Quote for the day – April 25

25 Saturday Apr 2015

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Cory Morningstar, technology

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“Humans have survived successfully for millennia without mobiles. All we require for our survival is healthy food, clean water, clean sanitation, and shelter. And as social animals, we seek physical community, companionship, joy, and love”.

Cory Morningstar

[Read about Cory Morningstar on the orgrad website]

Quote for the day – April 24

24 Friday Apr 2015

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René Guénon

René Guénon

“Modern man, instead of attempting to raise himself to truth, seeks to drag truth down to his own level”.

René Guénon, The Crisis of the Modern World

[Read about René Guénon on the orgrad website]

 

 

 

 

Quote for the day – April 23

23 Thursday Apr 2015

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Emma Goldman

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“My life was linked with that of the race. Its spiritual heritage was mine, and its values were transmuted into my being. The eternal struggle of man was rooted within me”.

Emma Goldman, Living My Life

[Read about Emma Goldman on the orgrad website]

 

 

 

 

Quote for the day – April 22

22 Wednesday Apr 2015

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freedom, Golden Age, Yves Delhoysie

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“It’s not relevant here to discuss whether the Golden Age existed at one point, somewhere. The real question is rather that people have always been fascinated by the idea of a time and a world where everyone lived in complete freedom, without being subjugated into labour and without being divided by the rule of money and private property”.

Yves Delhoysie, L’incendie millénariste

 

 

 

 

Quote for the day – April 21

21 Tuesday Apr 2015

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Forms of Freedom, freedom, Paul Cudenec, responsibility

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“Real freedom and real responsibility are so intertwined and interdependent in their meaning as to be almost inseparable”.

Paul Cudenec, Forms of Freedom

[Read about Paul Cudenec on the orgrad website]

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