“If we lie to the government, it’s a felony. But if they lie to us, it’s politics.” - Bill Murray
Illustration by Dave Merrell
This is the beginning of the healing from the addiction – the addiction to oil, the addiction to consumerism, the addiction to that lifestyle which leaves you strung out, feeling miserable and lonely. There is more work to be done. - Doug Good Feather
Teenagers have been deformed by social media. There's a sense they fit, but not as agents, not as full human beings who are making a future for themselves. They fit as human fodder that has been sucked into a machine and molded to what the machine wants out of them, which is their attention. — Jonathan Haidt from Our Kids Are the Least Generation Flourishing We Know Of
Image by Bill Watterson
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-jonathan-haidt.html
"If you don't become the ocean, you will be seasick every day." - Leonard Cohen
“Your intuition and your intellect should be working together, making love. That’s how it works best.” Madeleine L’Engle
Photo by http://photocosma.net/.
"Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light." — Joseph Pulitzer
Artwork by Steve Powers
Bill Moyers Question: Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt is a tough book. It’s not Dispatches from Disneyworld. It paints some very stark portraits of poverty, despair, destructive behaviour. What makes you think people want to read that sort of thing these days?
Chris Hedges Answer: That’s not a question that Joe Sacco and I ever asked. It is absolutely imperative that we begin to understand what unfettered, unregulated capitalism does – the violence of that system.
Painting by Paco Pomet in Banksy’s Dismaland.
“Just a simple choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one. Here's what we can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride. Take all that money we spend on weapons and defenses each year and instead spend it feeding and clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would pay for many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, forever, in peace.” - Bill Hicks
https://nerdist.com/bill-hickss-principles-of-comedy/
Photo: Alex Webb, Oaxaca, Mexico, 1982.
“Let them eat cake.” - Marie Antoinette
Words and images of others I find idiocyncratic, intriguing and inspirational.
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