Logan

“Civilization is not about more capital accumulation per se; rather, it is about what capital accumulation allows humans to achieve, the flourishing and freedom to seek higher meaning in life when their base needs are met and most pressing dangers averted.”
― Saifedean Ammous, The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking

“To all my friends and relatives in Alcoholics Anonymous, I say that they were right to become intoxicated. Life without moments of intoxication is not worth ‘a pitcher of spit,’ as the felicitous saying goes. They simply chose what was for them a deadly poison on which to get drunk.

Good examples of harmless toots are some of the things children do. They get smashed for hours on some strictly limited aspect of the Great Big Everything, the Universe, such as water or snow or mud or colors or rocks”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Fates Worse Than Death: An Autobiographical Collage

“I’m just brutally fuckin’ honest about goin’ ahead and doin’ what I have to do. But it’s not that I can’t sense people’s feelings. People are hurt.

Whenever you move forward, you leave a fuckin’ wake.

—Yeah, and your wake’s a BIG one.
It’s a big wake. A lotta destruction behind me.

—Are you very good at saying goodbye to people?

No. I don’t like long goodbyes.

—HA HA HA. Sometimes you don’t like ANY goodbye at all!

Well … some goodbyes are more subtle than others. Sometimes only one of the people involved knows that it’s a goodbye. But that’s because—

—YEAH?????

I guess it’s because I’m chickenshit and I don’t want to hurt people. And that’s a weakness of mine. I could be more honest about certain things. See, these people that say I’m so honest—I’m not that honest.”
― Jimmy McDonough, Shakey: Neil Young's Biography

“What he’d done is he’d wired his house as the left speaker and his entire barn as the right speaker, and they played Harvest. And at the end of it Elliot Mazer comes down to the shore of the lake and goes, ‘Neil, how is it?’ Neil turns around and shouts, ‘More barn!”
― Jimmy McDonough, Shakey: Neil Young's Biography