Monthly Archives: April 2015

Quote for the day – April 30

30 Thursday Apr 2015

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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

“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 26

26 Sunday Apr 2015

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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 22

22 Wednesday Apr 2015

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freiheit3

“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