31 Sunday Jan 2016
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“The mutual-aid tendency in man has so remote an origin, and is so deeply interwoven with all the past evolution of the human race, that it has been maintained by mankind up to the present time, notwithstanding all vicissitudes of history”.
Peter Kropotkin, Mutual Aid
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30 Saturday Jan 2016
Posted in nature, spirituality
“There are mystical moments when we seem to stop existing as an individual and are absorbed into everything that surrounds us – trees, mountains, rivers, wildlife. This is not an illusion that we are experiencing, but the falling-away of an illusion”.
Paul Cudenec, Forms of Freedom
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29 Friday Jan 2016
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“Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall have made thought-crime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it”.
George Orwell, 1984
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28 Thursday Jan 2016
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“Every child that is coming into being rests, like all that is coming into being, in the womb of the great mother, the undivided primal world that precedes form”.
Martin Buber, I and Thou
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27 Wednesday Jan 2016
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“As a basic rule of thumb, there will always be money available to members of left parties who support US policies”.
Robin Ramsay, Politics and Paranoia
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26 Tuesday Jan 2016
Posted in capitalism, nature, spirituality
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“One of the essential themes of this critique, which resurfaces like an obsession in the work of writers, poets, philosophers and historians, is the clash between Kultur, a spiritual realm of ethical, religious or aesthetic values, and Zivilisation, the vulgar materialist world of economic and technological progress. If capitalism is, according to Max Weber’s mercilessly perceptive expression, the disenchantment of the world (Entzauberung der Welt), then anti-capitalist Romanticism has to be seen primarily as a despairing and nostalgic attempt at the re-enchantment of the world”.
Michael Löwy, Rédemption et utopie: le judaïsme libertaire en Europe centrale
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25 Monday Jan 2016
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“The wounds that mass society inflicts on the individual are real indicators of the dominant lie. The individual’s lack of integration into his or her environment is literally traumatic: the loss of common references, anonymity and fear lead to the collapse of socialisation, a lack of solidarity, a neurotic desire for safety, extremely dysfunctional behaviour and to everything which paves the pathological way for bulimia, anorexia, addiction, compulsive consumption, hypochondria, stress, depression and other modern syndromes”.
Miguel Amorós, The Totalitarian Town
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24 Sunday Jan 2016
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“Once I thought that to be human was the highest aim a man could have, but I see now that it was meant to destroy me. Today I am proud to say that I am inhuman, that I belong not to men and governments, that I have nothing to do with creeds and principles. I have nothing to do with the creaking machinery of humanity – I belong to the earth!”
Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer
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23 Saturday Jan 2016
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“It is time for the insight that there is no individual, but only unities and communities. It is not true that collective names designate only a sum of individuals: on the contrary, individuals are only manifestations and points of reference, electric sparks of something grand and whole”.
Gustav Landauer, Skepsis und Mystik
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22 Friday Jan 2016
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“The war is waged by each ruling group against its own subjects, and the object of the war is not to make or prevent conquests of territory, but to keep the structure of society intact”.
George Orwell, 1984
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