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“It has proven unfortunate for the survival of Indian nations that their way of viewing the world is so drastically at odds with the views of American technological society. Indigenous systems of logic have not led them to emphasize expansion, power, or high-impact technologies of violence. Meanwhile, several aspects of the industrial system, especially in capitalist societies, to celebrate and even require the goals of expansion, growth, and exploitation and the development of the technologies appropriate to those goals. When the two world views come into conflict, we in the industrial cultures have the brute advantage of the violent technologies to help wipe out indigenous cultures; we then interpret this so-called victory as further evidence of our greater fitness to survive.”
― In the Absence of the Sacred: The Failure of Technology & the Survival of the Indian Nations
― In the Absence of the Sacred: The Failure of Technology & the Survival of the Indian Nations
“When the situation is hopeless, there's nothing to worry about.”
― The Monkey Wrench Gang
― The Monkey Wrench Gang
“Without debate, without criticism no administration and no country can succeed and no republic can survive.”
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“Living within artificial, reconstructed, arbitrary environments that are strictly the products of human conception, we have no way to be sure that we know what is true and what is not. We have lost context and perspective. What we know is what other humans tell us.”
― Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television
― Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television
“... in antidemocratic systems, the function of education is to produce obedient citizens structurally obliged to enter the workforce without bargaining power, and ideologically trained to think that the dominant group represents history’s greatest civilisational forces.”
― How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them
― How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them
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