Quotes

[8bpc]

Le narrateur: Franz thinks of everything and nothing. He wonders if the world is becoming a dream or if the dream is becoming the world.
Band of Outsiders / Jean-Luc Godard

[Picasso]

We have to show these men and women freedom by enslaving them, and show them courage by frightening them. ~Chuck Palahniuk

[8bpc]

Walter Lippmann ... described what he called "the manufacture of consent" as "a revolution" in "the practice of democracy"... And he said this was useful and necessary because "the common interests" - the general concerns of all people - "elude" the public. The public just isn't up to dealing with them. And they have to be the domain of what he called a "specialized class" ... [Reinhold Niebuhr]'s view was that rationality belongs to the cool observer. But because of the stupidity of the average man, he follows not reason, but faith. And this naive faith requires necessary illusion, and emotionally potent oversimplifications, which are provided by the myth-maker to keep the ordinary person on course. It's not the case, as the naive might think, that indoctrination is inconsistent with democracy. Rather, as this whole line of thinkers observes, it is the essence of democracy. The point is that in a military state or a feudal state or what we would now call a totalitarian state, it doesn't much matter because you've got a bludgeon over their heads and you can control what they do. But when the state loses the bludgeon, when you can't control people by force, and when the voice of the people can be heard you have this problem -- it may make people so curious and so arrogant that they don't have the humility to submit to a civil rule [Clement Walker, 1661], and therefore you have to control what people think. And the standard way to do this is to resort to what in more honest days used to be called propaganda, manufacture of consent, creation of necessary illusion. Various ways of either marginalizing the public or reducing them to apathy in some fashion.
Noam Chomsky. Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, 1992

[ES3K]

[333]

I can't get no satisfaction - Mick Jagger & Keith Richards

[ahn]

Apologies if already posted, but a favourite of mine...

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

- Carl Sagan

[interest1]

[interest1]

– Shania, I mean, Mark Twain

[Peasant]

"You'll never be on your deathbed wishing you had stayed more angry with someone."

-Unknown

[Prototypes]

"Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black."

-Henry Ford

Another one by Ford.

"A market is never saturated with a good product but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one."

[Peasant]

^Truth.

"Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously."

-Hunter S. Thompson

[interest1]

"You'll never be on your deathbed wishing you had stayed more angry with someone."

-Unknown

I don't think my ex got the memo.

[Peasant]

Fuckin' seriously.

[Faust]

^Truth.

"Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously."

-Hunter S. Thompson

A real gem

[MJRH]

Everyone should study at least enough philosophy and literature to make his sexual experience more delectable.

Lichtenberg