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    Jean Baudrillard
    “The secret of theory is that truth does not exist.”
    ― Jean Baudrillard, Fragments
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    Jean Baudrillard
    “Smile and others will smile back. Smile to show how transparent, how candid you are. Smile if you have nothing to say. Most of all, do not hide the fact you have nothing to say nor your total indifference to others. Let this emptiness, this profound indifference shine out spontaneously in your smile.”
    ― Jean Baudrillard
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    Jean Baudrillard
    “Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the Grand Climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust.”
    ― Jean Baudrillard, Cool Memories
    tags: politics, society, sterility
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    Jean Baudrillard
    “Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays cosily tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.”
    ― Jean Baudrillard, Cool Memories
    tags: death
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    Jean Baudrillard
    “Philosophy leads to death, sociology leads to suicide.”
    ― Jean Baudrillard
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    Jean Baudrillard
    “Power floats like money, like language, like theory.”
    ― Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation
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    Jean Baudrillard
    “History that repeats itself turns to farce. Farce that repeats itself turns to history.”
    ― Jean Baudrillard, The Agony of Power
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    Paul Virilio
    “There are eyes everywhere. No blind spot left. What shall we dream of when everything becomes visible? We'll dream of being blind.”
    ― Paul Virilio
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    Slavoj Žižek
    “The one measure of true love is: you can insult the other”
    ― Slavoj Zizek
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    Slavoj Žižek
    “It is more satisfying to sacrifice oneself for the poor victim than to enable the other to overcome their victim status and perhaps become even more succesfull than ourselves”
    ― Slavoj Žižek, Living in the End Times
    tags: culture-critique, philosophy
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    John Zerzan
    “I don't want to be overly dramatic about it, but I think people more and more wonder, is this living, or are we just going through the motions? What's happening? Is everything being leached out of life? Is the whole texture and values and everything kind of draining away?”
    ― John Zerzan
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    “Those who understand history are condemned to watch other idiots repeat it.”
    ― Peter Lamborn Wilson
    tags: history, sad-reality, truth
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    Alfred Jarry
    “It is one of the great joys of home ownership to fire a pistol in one's own bedroom”
    ― Alfred Jarry
    tags: guns
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    Michel Houellebecq
    “The absence of the will to live is, alas, not sufficient to make one want to die.”
    ― Michel Houellebecq
    tags: boredom, death, inspirational, life, misery
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    Michel Houellebecq
    “Those who love life do not read. Nor do they go to the movies, actually. No matter what might be said, access to the artistic universe is more or less entirely the preserve of those who are a little fed up with the world.”
    ― Michel Houellebecq, H.P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life
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    William Gibson
    “Time moves in one direction, memory another. We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting.”
    ― William Gibson, Distrust That Particular Flavor
    tags: memory, time
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard
    tags: future, life, past, reflection, understanding
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard , The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Orienting Deliberation on the Dogmatic Issue of Hereditary Sin
    tags: anxiety, dizziness, fear, freedom, life
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”
    ― Soren Kierkegaard
    tags: faith, god, prayer
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    “Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy then gives them the drugs to take away their unhappiness. Science fiction It is already happening to some extent in our own society. Instead of removing the conditions that make people depressed modern society gives them antidepressant drugs. In effect antidepressants are a means of modifying an individual's internal state in such a way as to enable him to tolerate social conditions that he would otherwise find intolerable.”
    ― Theodore Kaczynski
    tags: absurdity, depression, drugs, pharmaceuticals, psychiatry, psychology, society
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    “Our society tends to regard as a sickness any mode of thought or behavior that is inconvenient for the system and this is plausible because when an individual doesn't fit into the system it causes pain to the individual as well as problems for the system. Thus the manipulation of an individual to adjust him to the system is seen as a cure for a sickness and therefore as good.”
    ― Theodore Kaczynski
    tags: abuse-of-power, anti-psychiatrity, anti-stigma, discrimination, judged, label, labeling, labeling-someone, labelling, mental-disorder, mental-health, mental-health-stigma, mental-health-system, mental-illness, perspective, sanity, sickness, society
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    Jacques Ellul
    “Technique has taken over the whole of civilization. Death, procreation, birth all submit to technical efficiency and systemization.”
    ― Jacques Ellul
    tags: dystopia, technique
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    “It’s useless to wait-for a breakthrough, for the revolution, the nuclear apocalypse or a social movement. To go on waiting is madness. The catastrophe is not coming, it is here. We are already situated within the collapse of a civilization. It is within this reality that we must choose sides.”
    ― Invisible Committee, The Coming Insurrection
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    Ivan Chtcheglov
    “Between love and the automatic garbage chute, young people everywhere have made their choice and prefer the garbage chute. [Entre l'amour et le vide-ordure automatique la jeunesse de tous les pays a fait son choix et préfère le vide-ordure.]”
    ― Ivan Chtcheglov
    tags: 1953, 1958
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    Guy Debord
    “Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.”
    ― Guy Debord, Society of the Spectacle
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    Guy Debord
    “The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images.”
    ― Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle
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    Guy Debord
    “Never work.”
    ― Guy Debord
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    Guy Debord
    “There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter.”
    ― Guy Debord
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    Michel Houellebecq
    “I don't like this world. I definitely do not like it. The society in which I live disgusts me; advertising sickens me; computers make me puke.”
    ― Michel Houellebecq, Whatever
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    Michel Houellebecq
    “It's a curious idea to reproduce when you don't even like life.”
    ― Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles
    tags: children, life
    187 likes



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