31 Thursday Dec 2015
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“Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows art to realize its purposes through him”.
C.G. Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul
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30 Wednesday Dec 2015
Posted in anarchism, resistance
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“I meant total opposition in a philosophical sense – attacking the current death-system at its roots, rather than focusing on trimming it back here and there. Otherwise nothing will change, all possibilities of improvement will remain blocked and the future will be like this, only a thousand times worse”.
Paul Cudenec, interview
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29 Tuesday Dec 2015
“Unfortunately, our secret state has only one response to internal dissent or the possibility of public revelation of its own errors: smash, crush, smear, destroy, frame, cover-up and lie”.
Robin Ramsay, Politics and Paranoia
28 Monday Dec 2015
Posted in civilization, class, land
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“The anti-industrial land-defence cause is the only one that raises the social question in its entirety because, more than any other struggle, it is a struggle for life. It is a class war for the 21st century”.
Miguel Amorós, The Deceitful Art of Destroying Towns
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27 Sunday Dec 2015
Posted in civilization, nature
“Modern man does not experience himself as a part of nature but as an outside force destined to dominate and conquer it”.
E.F. Schumacher, Small is Beautiful
(Artwork: New Pioneers by Mark Henson)
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26 Saturday Dec 2015
Posted in authority, capitalism, media
“We are left, then, with the suspicion that there is a network of journalists and academics actively working to steer the ‘Left’ away from any criticism of the USA and the capitalist system it dominates”.
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25 Friday Dec 2015
Posted in civilization, technology
“In much the same way as the malignant cells of cancer invade and destroy the normal tissue of the body, so do the affairs and processes of the toymaker technocrats invade and destroy the balanced and stable earth organism”.
Kit Pedler, The Quest for Gaia: A Book of Changes
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24 Thursday Dec 2015
Posted in life, spirituality
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“Individuality makes its appearance by being differentiated from other individualities. A person makes his appearance by entering into relation with other persons. The one is the spiritual form of natural detachment, the other the spiritual form of natural solidarity of connexion”.
Martin Buber, I and Thou
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23 Wednesday Dec 2015
Posted in life, spirituality
“It is worth man’s while to take pains with himself, and he has something in his soul that can grow. It is rewarding to watch patiently the silent happenings in the soul, and the most and the best happens when it is not regulated from outside and from above”.
C.G. Jung, Psychology and Alchemy
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22 Tuesday Dec 2015
Posted in civilization
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“How do we go on living, when every day our hearts break anew?”
Derrick Jensen, Dreams
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