Heather Marsh > Quotes

“We are in a prison of our own minds holding our own chains around us. We create our oligarchs and fight for their right to oppress us.”
― Heather Marsh, Binding Chaos

“Your worst enemy is not the person in opposition to you. It is the person occupying the spot you would be fighting from and doing nothing.”
― Heather Marsh, Binding Chaos

“Functional societies need algorithms which reward us for being of service to those who need it most. Instead we have algorithms which reward us for being of service to those who need it least”
― Heather Marsh, Binding Chaos: Mass Collaboration on a Global Scale

“Self-governance does not mean no one is responsible. It means everyone is.”
― Heather Marsh, Binding Chaos

“Where there is society, there is no need for charity.”
― Heather Marsh, Binding Chaos

“Ponzi schemes don’t trickle down, they siphon up.”
― Heather Marsh, Binding Chaos

“All of society’s problems which could be solved by money, were caused by money.”
― Heather Marsh, Binding Chaos: Mass Collaboration on a Global Scale

“The single greatest tool for making moral people commit atrocities is group affiliation. The single greatest tool for promoting global human rights and equality is to end group affiliation.”
― Heather Marsh, Binding Chaos

“Between reaction and revolution there is nothing to choose. Neither leave the track, they just allow different people to drive while the same people are run over.”
― Heather Marsh, Binding Chaos

“Direct democracy is lazy anarchy, for people who don't want to be governed but are too lazy to govern themselves. They want participation served to them.”
― Heather Marsh, Binding Chaos: Mass Collaboration on a Global Scale

“All ponzi schemes are upheld by a centripetal force caused by those orbiting the circles of power, celebrity and wealth and trying to get in. When the ponzi scheme reaches its point of maximum growth, the force disperses and the ponzi scheme collapses.”
― Heather Marsh, Binding Chaos: Mass Collaboration on a Global Scale

“Opportunists are promoted, realists are co-opted, idealists are frightened and radicals are shot.”
― Heather Marsh, Binding Chaos: Mass Collaboration on a Global Scale

“Who controls the words controls your thoughts.”
― Heather Marsh, Binding Chaos: Mass Collaboration on a Global Scale

“Human rights don't trickle down.”
― Heather Marsh, Binding Chaos: Mass Collaboration on a Global Scale

“Women in all cultures are expected to do very difficult, time consuming, laborious and high risk unpaid work to give birth and raise children, and in many cultures they remain as an almost entirely unpaid foundation of slave labour that the rest of the economy is built upon.”
― Heather Marsh

“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

“Media who pretend to write stories about groups whose voices are never heard but write almost universally through the lens of western men instead, are ensuring that all interpretations and solutions come from the same small segment of society.”
― Heather Marsh

“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

“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

“Get healthy, get strong, get educated and informed, and start contributing to your own governance.”
― Heather Marsh, Binding Chaos: Mass Collaboration on a Global Scale

“Guilt is an acknowledgment of debt for unbalanced transactions.”
― 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

“Our right to communicate is usurped by those with the access to audience.”
― Heather Marsh, Binding Chaos: Mass Collaboration on a Global Scale

“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

“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

“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

“A person who takes your idea and information to use and build upon is your collaborator, tester and colleague. A person who takes your credit or your voice is your enemy, a thief who steals your societal recognition and approval for themselves and would be your tyrant.”
― Heather Marsh

“When your right to communicate is interrupted by those who would be your voice, your face or your representative, you are being subjected to the governance of another.”
― Heather Marsh, Binding Chaos: Mass Collaboration on a Global Scale

“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 first right of any person in any society must be the right to communicate. Without communication there is no way to safeguard our other rights or for us to participate fully in a society.”
― Heather Marsh, Binding Chaos: Mass Collaboration on a Global Scale