The Creation of Me, Them and Us Quotes

“Militaries torture children to ‘keep people safe’ and corporations destroy the environment to ‘give you jobs’.”
― Heather Marsh, The Creation of Me, Them and Us

“Let’s try to create a new habit of slow travel; let’s forfeit the social media selfies and work on creating true links of friendship, mutual aid, trust and discovery when we are guests in other people’s communities and homes.”
― Heather Marsh, The Creation of Me, Them and Us

“Providing free streets for vehicles and charging for public transit is taxing the necessities of the poor for the autogenocidal luxuries of the wealthy.”
― Heather Marsh, The Creation of Me, Them and Us

“Guilt is an acknowledgment of debt for unbalanced transactions.”
― Heather Marsh, The Creation of Me, Them and Us

“And it is customary for those who uphold this absolute form of secretive tyrannical rule to call people like me anarchists, but if all anarchy means is there are no absolute rulers or centralized authority, then shouldn’t that be a basic tenet of a democracy?”
― Heather Marsh, The Creation of Me, Them and Us

“Beware of your contribution to the growing banality of evil lest you yourself become a cog in the machinery of terror.”
― Heather Marsh, The Creation of Me, Them and Us

“Every threat to an endogroup results in increased violence towards its own weakest members, the negative image. All externally directed atrocities eventually come home to roost, including genocide.”
― Heather Marsh, The Creation of Me, Them and Us

“The act of falling ill is enough to cast a person as the negative image in an industrial endogroup. This has been obvious for years through the condemnation of the ill to poverty and social ostracization but it becomes more evident as hospitals are threatened with bombs and hospital workers are evicted and shunned.”
― Heather Marsh, The Creation of Me, Them and Us

“he act of falling ill is enough to cast a person as the negative image in an industrial endogroup. This has been obvious for years through the condemnation of the ill to poverty and social ostracization but it becomes more evident as hospitals are threatened with bombs and hospital workers are evicted and shunned.”
― Heather Marsh, The Creation of Me, Them and Us

“We don’t need cryptocurrency, or even basic income, as much as we need institutions of sharing and free services like transit, medical care, education, food and housing.”
― Heather Marsh, The Creation of Me, Them and Us

“The first thing that happens in a disaster is the breakdown of endogroups and hierarchy and the establishment of altruistic exosocial aid.”
― Heather Marsh, The Creation of Me, Them and Us

“An external threat that is not a rival endogroup does not produce an endogroup power structure to combat it. A naturally occurring environmental threat creates widespread exosocial collaboration, as is seen in every disaster.”
― Heather Marsh, The Creation of Me, Them and Us

“We are, or will be, going through the most radical transformation the world has ever seen; people are justly terrified, excited, depressed, heartbroken and hopeful, all at once.”
― Heather Marsh, The Creation of Me, Them and Us

“Information freedom is the freedom to access, participate in, understand and benefit from knowledge creation. This includes access to raw data, transparent auditing processes which include both elite knowledge and complete and immediate feedback from user groups and anyone else impacted, and interpretation which flows directly from the audit without interference from coercive manipulation.”
― Heather Marsh, The Creation of Me, Them and Us

“The answer to the riddle posed by identity groups is that they are one entity and their identity is that of their ideal. There can be no shared identity among people, as each person is unique.”
― Heather Marsh, The Creation of Me, Them and Us

“Power is never benevolent and never inert. Where it exists in great excess, atrocities always exist in great excess as well.”
― Heather Marsh, The Creation of Me, Them and Us

“Psychologists and philosophers created a world where anxiety, fear and struggle are the norm, where happiness and peace are impossible to attain or available only to the most adept after long torment, and where existence is, above all, futile. In this world, people must constantly struggle with and repress what is supposedly their true nature for an end that is, at best, an abstract morality. Any outside assistance is impossible as all interpersonal interactions are also a continual existential struggle. Every outside person can only be the subject or the subjugated in this world, and all love is simply object desire. Existence here has no joy, no connection and no purpose. The happy ending is death.”
― Heather Marsh, The Creation of Me, Them and Us

“Autogenocide: Genocide instigated remotely, usually through media incited sectarianism or trade of drugs or weapons to the targeted population, but performed by the population on itself.”
― Heather Marsh, The Creation of Me, Them and Us

“The economy is not going to be nearly as important as it was before. This may be unimaginable to people who have been accustomed to framing all of our problems in terms of economics, but think of how religions and states faded as the dominant endogroups when new transcendental endogroups appeared. Things that appear essential to society can fade into irrelevance if they are based only on endoreality, as economics is.”
― Heather Marsh, The Creation of Me, Them and Us

“The world is living through a time of great pain but great pain is always a motivator for exosocial expansion. The tearing of endogroup bonds and former euphoric connections results in a global need to create new connections. We have an opportunity to create those connections with discovery, with creation and with each other, through altruistic and power-free interactions.”
― Heather Marsh, The Creation of Me, Them and Us

“The most dangerous time in any endogroup occurs on its destruction.”
― Heather Marsh, The Creation of Me, Them and Us

“Endoreality, which assigns all ownership, virtue, credit and victimhood to the endo-ideal and all vice, guilt and punishment to the negative image, acts to shield the endo-ideal from their own guilt and persecute the negative image. Endoreality is the primary tool of tyranny and the means to keep the world in chains of our own creation.”
― Heather Marsh, The Creation of Me, Them and Us

“We are governed by information and our belief in and acceptance of that information. Transparent, verified information and knowledge bridges are the most important tools available to us today.”
― Heather Marsh, The Creation of Me, Them and Us

“Those who crave the pain and destruction of others exist freely due to the cloak of endoreality which shields them from accountability. Their actions are depicted as necessary and unavoidable instead of the simple cruelty they are.”
― Heather Marsh, The Creation of Me, Them and Us

“As long as we are trapped in endogroups, people have proved throughout history that there is no atrocity or horror they will not normalize and justify.”
― Heather Marsh, The Creation of Me, Them and Us

“Why should every child have a right to education but not food? How is free health care effective if healthy food, air and water are unattainable?”
― Heather Marsh, The Creation of Me, Them and Us

“We can prevent power structures from returning by establishing exosocial collaboration and refusing to allow autogenocidal actions like pollution to be re-normalized.”
― Heather Marsh, The Creation of Me, Them and Us

“We have never in the history of humanity had an opportunity like we do now to be free of endosocial extremism.”
― Heather Marsh, The Creation of Me, Them and Us

“Autogenocide in the name of the old god Economy is a sign of endosocial extremism and cruelty”
― Heather Marsh, The Creation of Me, Them and Us

“A mono-empire has no external endogroup to act as an existential threat and so a mono-empire cannot form or maintain its defensive structure. It dissolves even as it attempts to form.”
― Heather Marsh, The Creation of Me, Them and Us