"What goes too long unchanged destroys itself. The forest is forever because it dies and dies and so lives."

Ursula K. Le Guin - Tales From Earthsea: Dragonfly

šlohnuto z Ústavu; dle mě je to vhodné tady

"Washing the toilet used by three males, and the floor and wall around it, is, Mira thought, coming face to face with necessity. And that is why women were saner than men, did not come up with the mad, absurd schemes men developed. They were in touch with necessity, they had to wash the toilet bowl and floor."

Marilyn French - The Women´s Room

Budoucnost už není, co bývala.

"Technology operates against the repressive utilization of energy in so far as it minimize the time necessary for the production of the necessities of life, thus saving time for the development of needs beyond the realm of necessity and of necessary waste. But the closer the real possibility of liberating the individual from the constraints once justified by scarcity and immaturity, the greater need for maintaining and streamlining these constraints lest the established order of domination dissolve. Civilisation has to defend itself against the specter of a world which could be free."

Herbert Marcuse - Eros and Civilisation

Chválit politiky za to, že nechají opravit cesty ze státních peněz, je jako tleskat bankomatu za to, že ti vydal tvé peníze.

“It's a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.”
(Aldous Huxley)

QWWERTY: Vskutečnosti:

Cuneiform tablet: caravan account
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Old Assyrian Trading Colony; Cuneiform tablet; Clay-Tablets-Inscribed
Date ca. 20th–19th century B.C.

File:Cuneiform tablet- caravan account MET DP-13441-004.jpg - Wikimedia Commons
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cuneiform_tablet-_caravan_account_MET_DP-13441-004.jpg

zdá se, že tenhle obrázek v novinách před čtyřmi dny zasáhl "blízko domova" u mnoha Američanů

I nicked that off Mark Ravenhill who wrote a very good piece which said that if you analyse television now it's a system of guidance - it tells you who is having the Bad Feelings and who is having the Good Feelings. And the person who is having the Bad Feelings is redeemed through a "hugs and kisses" moment at the end. It really is a system not of moral guidance, but of emotional guidance. Morality has been replaced by feeling. That's what all the disorders are about. They are a way of oppressing and measuring whether what you're feeling is the correct feeling. Intellect and morality are intimately related but feeling is now predominant.

It's very difficult to take people out of themselves. Because what you're doing is reinforcing the priority of their own feelings about themselves. The thing about our age is that everyone monitors themselves. It's really fascinating. I did this with the psychological disorders in The Trap. They've become a way of policing yourself. "Am I the right shape? Am I the right emotional construct?" So you edge back to the right emotional shape, or the right physical shape. And vanity in our time - is about pleasing yourself. It's about making yourself feel better about yourself. We live within our selves. We should find a way of escaping it, but the program makers don't have the imagination or the confidence.

I grew up at the time of the failure of the optimistic view of changing people. That's what marked out the 20th century - what drove it all was this idea that people can be made better, and fundamentally we can engineer it. That failed. We now have a mirror image of that. There are people who are quite engineer-like - they're almost value-neutral. Every now and again that group meets another group who have a pessimistic view of human nature. But that group, the geeks, think "With that view, we can make the world safe". They're almost engineers of the human soul - we can engineer a better world through pessimistic views of human nature. I think that was true of marketers who saw in Freud's ideas a way of saying, "Look, we can shape how people fulfil their desires". That was also true of the neo-conservatives. They have a dark and pessimistic view of human beings, but they also have an optimistic view of a vision of the world which is that if we create a world that's grand enough, it will contain those dark desires and make them better. A lot of them are ex-Marxists, so it's not surprising.

By taking an optimistic idea that takes a pessimistic view of human nature through managing it, has increasingly trapped us into a technical process where you manage the feelings of the individual. It's not bad, it's not a conspiracy - it's just an attempt to manage a system. But because it's based on a limited view of human beings, it doesn't quite work. It's the years of stagnation. There's opportunities but no one's grabbing them. It's an extraordinary time of relative peace and relative prosperity, but we are all terrified, anxious, nervous, and we're not making any use of this openness. And it will close down again.

(Adam Curtis)

QWWERTY: jen tak mimochodem, to slovní spojení je sice v tomhle kontextu dochované jako nejstarší zdroj, nicméně už i z té věty je zřejmé, že to bylo používáno již dříve :) sorry za boření, ale já prostě musím

„Politika emancipace musí v první řadě zdiskreditovat zdání ‚přirozenosti.‘ To, co je prezentováno jako nezbytné a nevyhnutelné, obnažit jako pouhou nahodilost, stejně jako musí všechno, co bylo dříve pokládáno za nemožné, ukázat jako dosažitelné.“

(Mark Fisher - Kapitalistický realismus)