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Quote for the day – May 31

31 Sunday May 2015

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Antibodies, Paul Cudenec, superorganism

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“When a healthy human body comes under attack from antigens – harmful substances such as bacteria, fungi, parasites, viruses or chemicals – it doesn’t just lie back and allow itself to be killed off. Its immune system, if it has not been compromised by ill health, produces antibodies specifically designed to fight that particular threat. Some human beings and their activities are acting as antigens, threatening the health of our species and our planetary superorganism. Other humans, in whom a sense of individual freedom is combined with a responsibility for the well-being of the whole, must therefore take on the role of antibodies”.

Paul Cudenec, Antibodies

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Quote for the day – May 30

30 Saturday May 2015

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Guillaume Carnino

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“Anyone who hopes to be free must first be aware of their chains and not just carry on living as if they weren’t there”.

Guillaume Carnino, Divertir pour dominer

Quote for the day – May 29

29 Friday May 2015

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devil, god, Joseph Campbell, paganism, pan, pantheism

Jack in the Green

“The biblical representation of God as somebody ‘up there’, not the substance, but the maker of this universe, from which he is distinct, had deprived matter of a divine dimension and reduced it to mere dust. Hence, whatever the pagan world had regarded as evidence of a divine presence in nature, the Church interpreted as of the Devil”.

Joseph Campbell, The Masks of God: Creative Mythology

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Quote for the day – May 28

28 Thursday May 2015

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Walter Benjamin

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“His face is turned towards the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such violence that the angel can no longer close them. This storm irresistibly propels him into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward. This storm is what we call progress”.

Walter Benjamin describes the angel of history, Illuminations

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Quote for the day – May 27

27 Wednesday May 2015

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Michael Bakunin

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“Men once believed that the establishment of universal suffrage would guarantee the freedom of the people. That, alas, was a great illusion…”

Michael (Mikhail) Bakunin, Oeuvres

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Quote for the day – May 26

26 Tuesday May 2015

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France

Nous sommes la nature

“We are not fighting for nature – we are nature defending itself!”

French anti-industrial slogan

Quote for the day – May 25

25 Monday May 2015

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impossible, Karl Jaspers

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“One who truly has courage is one who, inspired by an anxious feeling of the possible, reaches out for the knowledge that he alone who aims at the impossible can attain the possible”.

Karl Jaspers, Man in the Modern Age

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Quote for the day – May 24

24 Sunday May 2015

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John Cowper Powys

flower

“Human sensations are Nature’s self-expression. They are the earth’s awareness of herself. They are like the blossoming of flowers – the only way in which the rooted life of the organism can realize itself and be itself”.

John Cowper Powys, Autobiography

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Quote for the day – May 23

23 Saturday May 2015

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Aldous Huxley, industrial society, taoism

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“The industrial worker at his fool-proof and grace-proof machine does his job in a man-made universe of punctual automata – a universe that lies entirely beyond the pale of Tao on any level, brutal, human or spiritual”.

Aldous Huxley, The Perennial Philosophy

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Quote for the day – May 22

22 Friday May 2015

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Artur Holitscher, Charlie Chaplin, industrial society

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“The specialisation of labour arising from mass production is increasingly reducing the worker to the level of a dead piece of machinery, a cog or lever functioning with automatic precision”

Artur Holitscher. Amerika heute und morgen

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Ramping up the global inquisition

by Paul Cudenec A few weeks back I wrote a piece about the way that anyone who challenges the dominant political agenda is liable to undergo a shaming, smearing, witch-hunting attack by what I called “the voice of the system”. The case in question concerned a left-environmental publication in France which had dared to state […]

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