30 Wednesday Sep 2015
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“Organism is spontaneous self-regulation, the mystery of formed growth, the inarticulate wisdom of the instincts”
Theodore Roszak, Where The Wasteland Ends
[Read about Theodore Roszak on the orgrad website]
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29 Tuesday Sep 2015
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“Essential humanity is reduced to the general; to vitality as a functional corporeality, to the triviality of enjoyment. The divorce of labour from pleasure deprives life of its possible gravity: public affairs become mere entertainment; private affairs, the alternation of stimulation and fatigue, and a craving for novelty whose inexhaustible current flows swiftly into the waters of oblivion. There is no continuity, only pastime.
“Positivism likewise encourages an unceasing activity of the impulses common to us all: an enthusiasm for the numberless and the vast, for the creations of modern technique, for huge crowds; sensational admiration for the achievements, fortunes, and abilities of outstanding individuals; the complication and brutalisation of the erotic; gambling, adventurousness, and even the hazarding of one’s life. Lottery tickets are sold by the million; crossword puzzles become the chief occupation of people’s leisure. This positive gratification of the mind without personal participation or effort promotes efficiency for the daily round, fatigue and recreation being regularised”.
Karl Jaspers, Man in the Modern Age
[Read about Karl Jaspers on the orgrad website]
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28 Monday Sep 2015
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“The use of unmanned drones to launch so-called ‘risk free’ attacks in remote areas of the world has rocketed over the past decade. Technology, we are told, can control the chaos of war. The reality is that armed drones make it much easier for governments to opt to use lethal military force rather than engage in diplomatic or political solutions”.
Drone Wars website, (Report in The Acorn)
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27 Sunday Sep 2015
Posted in capitalism, civilization, technology
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“Modern industry can be said to represent from all points of view the triumph of quantity, because its operations do not demand any knowledge other than quantitative, and because the instruments of which it makes use, that is to say machines properly so called, are developed in such a way that qualitative considerations come in to the least possible extent, while the men who work them are themselves limited to activity of an entirely mechanical kind”.
René Guénon, The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times
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26 Saturday Sep 2015
Posted in nature, spirituality
“I am the living spirit of nature as it emerges in you, filtered by the collective mind of the human species”.
Paul Cudenec, The Green One
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25 Friday Sep 2015
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“Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be”.
Walter Benjamin, Illuminations
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24 Thursday Sep 2015
Posted in authority, capitalism, land, laws
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“Land ownership is theft – from all the rest of us! – but is declared ‘legal’ and the state can therefore ‘legitimately’ use violence to protect that theft”.
[Read about Paul Cudenec on the orgrad website]
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23 Wednesday Sep 2015
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“The noblest and most unfathomable part of the whole of creation – time – is trapped in the snare of impure commercial interests. These conditions sully and debase not only creation but even more so the people who form part of it”.
Franz Kafka, Gespräche mit Kafka
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22 Tuesday Sep 2015
Posted in capitalism, state
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“’Anti-terrorism’ is not at all what it seems – it is in fact the deliberately misleading label given to a global psychological war waged against most of humanity by a controlling elite. Essentially the label ‘terrorist’ is an attempt to translate into legal terminology the vaguer notion of an enemy – an enemy of the system. Since the system itself designates its enemies, it also controls the definition of ‘terrorist'”.
Report in The Acorn on Guccio magazine
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21 Monday Sep 2015
Posted in life, nature, spirituality
“The life of the psyche is the life of mankind. Welling up from the depths of the unconscious, its springs gush forth from the root of the whole human race, since the individual is, biologically speaking, only a twig broken off from the mother and transplanted”.
C.G. Jung, Symbols of Transformation
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