Self Governance Quotes

“Wars are told from the point of view of arms dealers and politicians, disasters are interpreted by NGO’s, most issues are never covered at all. Official channels decide what will or will not be revealed and media are rewarded for their obedience by access to more official information.”
― Heather Marsh, Binding Chaos: Mass Collaboration on a Global Scale

“We can tell the revolution has failed every time we look around and see the fraternity sitting astride the ideals of the voiceless and promising to ride them to a different place this time.”
― Heather Marsh, Binding Chaos: Mass Collaboration on a Global Scale

“What is the difference between a terrorist and a soldier? The actions are now identical, both act to produce terror, so probably the only standing difference is that terrorists are non-government agencies. Remember that.”
― Heather Marsh, Binding Chaos: Mass Collaboration on a Global Scale

“Hungry people mindlessly follow orders. You feed them enough and right away they demand self-government.”
― Todd Tucker, The Great Starvation Experiment: The Heroic Men Who Starved so That Millions Could Live

“A person or group who attempts to suppress the voices of others is attempting to seize control.”
― Heather Marsh, Binding Chaos: Mass Collaboration on a Global Scale

“A person who interprets another’s voice instead of amplifying it is assuming control over the originator.”
― Heather Marsh, Binding Chaos: Mass Collaboration on a Global Scale

“While it was once possible to simply identify people in relation to a more powerful figure, as assistant, wife, staff, servant, serf, slave or other, the Internet provided the opportunity for all to have an equal voice free of relation to others.”
― Heather Marsh, Binding Chaos: Mass Collaboration on a Global Scale

“Depending on the group, individual voices are told their message will receive greater amplification if it comes from another, the danger of speaking openly is so great they must be protected, their individual voices disrupt the harmony of consensus, or they are part of a collective and will be shunned if they dare speak with their own name.”
― Heather Marsh, Binding Chaos: Mass Collaboration on a Global Scale

“The free information beliefs of many groups which threaten power have been twisted to conflate credit theft with free information.”
― Heather Marsh, Binding Chaos: Mass Collaboration on a Global Scale

“When you are told that the actions and thoughts you know were your own belong to the group or the cause and you will be punished for claiming your own voice or actions, you know you belong to a cult with a cult leader(s).”
― Heather Marsh, Binding Chaos: Mass Collaboration on a Global Scale

“Devoting all of your work to a brand that will be used to create a bloated central figure who will then be able to control the messages of everyone while dining out on ill-gotten celebrity and collecting brand donations is no different than passing all your money to the Unification Church.”
― Heather Marsh, Binding Chaos: Mass Collaboration on a Global Scale

“The cult leaders of the 1970’s demanded money; in the age of the internet they demand fame and information control.”
― Heather Marsh, Binding Chaos: Mass Collaboration on a Global Scale

“It is possibly pure coincidence that every movement today that threatens the powerful is taken over by those that seek to suppress individuals and control the messages which are heard.”
― Heather Marsh, Binding Chaos: Mass Collaboration on a Global Scale

“The word crisis is derived from a word meaning ‘turning point’. For all the crises we think the world has been through, there is very rarely a turn. Indeed, history can appear more like an inexorably straight path with predictable periodic bumps. The tools to effect a real change are available now, but real change would require a real direction and goals. Without these, this revolution will end as all the others eventually have, with new tyrants.”
― Heather Marsh, Binding Chaos: Mass Collaboration on a Global Scale

“There are only two possible explanations for a sovereign nation to bankrupt its own citizens and its government in order to set up a huge international surveillance and military system, “the finest fighting force the world has ever seen” that they do not actually own or control. One, everyone is completely insane, or two, it has not been a sovereign nation for a long time. Now is the time to remember the definition of a terrorist.”
― Heather Marsh, Binding Chaos: Mass Collaboration on a Global Scale

“If news requires no action, it is probably not the news we require in order to govern ourselves. If activism requires no analysis, it is probably not informed or effective.”
― Heather Marsh, Binding Chaos: Mass Collaboration on a Global Scale

“A weed is a strong plant thriving where those in power do not want it. A witch is a strong person thriving where those in power do not want them.”
― Heather Marsh, Binding Chaos: Mass Collaboration on a Global Scale

“The church and capitalists responded to the rising egalitarian threat by creating a hierarchy which demonized women to divide the previously united peasants. Where all had previously worked together in a society, waged labour created class warfare and a new master-servant relationship between men and women.”
― Heather Marsh, Binding Chaos: Mass Collaboration on a Global Scale

“Men had autonomy through land replaced by autonomy through wages and women were now unpaid slaves or, sometimes thanks to new abolition of laws against rape of the lower classes, prey.”
― Heather Marsh, Binding Chaos: Mass Collaboration on a Global Scale

“A heretic who recanted was made to embroider a bundle of sticks (a faggot) to their sleeve in reminder of the fire they had escaped and may yet suffer. The term once used against argumentative women is now used as a pejorative against homosexuals, the other targeted practitioners of non-reproductive sex.”
― Heather Marsh, Binding Chaos: Mass Collaboration on a Global Scale

“Institutionalization and professionalization allowed control of the sources of knowledge by the men of the dominant social classes, a situation still true today. What is billed as The Birth of Modern Medicine was really the death of all women’s knowledge and most importantly, the death of women’s control over their own reproductive destinies.”
― Heather Marsh, Binding Chaos: Mass Collaboration on a Global Scale

“The creation of officially sanctioned knowledge removed ownership of knowledge from women and indigenous societies and placed it all under rigid capitalist control. Practices which had been used and tested for centuries were not considered official or tested until the Great Men approved and claimed ownership of them.”
― Heather Marsh, Binding Chaos: Mass Collaboration on a Global Scale

“The first step to creating a patriarchal society was removing matrilineal power from women.”
― Heather Marsh, Binding Chaos: Mass Collaboration on a Global Scale

“At the same time that women saw their own bodies turned into workhouses to enslave them and lost autonomy over their own bodies, the trade economy made all work not traded to the powerful for a wage unrecognized.”
― Heather Marsh, Binding Chaos: Mass Collaboration on a Global Scale

“Worker’s movements centre around waged workers and men’s rights activists insist more men die on the job because the occupational hazards of childbirth and marriage aren’t considered jobs.”
― Heather Marsh, Binding Chaos: Mass Collaboration on a Global Scale

“While a capitalist who invests in anything that produces income is entitled to a return on investment, women who produced the entire work force are entitled to none.”
― Heather Marsh, Binding Chaos: Mass Collaboration on a Global Scale

“In order to create a class war against a population which was not an abstract thought but the family members and social structure men lived with daily, differences between men and women had to be exaggerated and presented as the result of evil.”
― Heather Marsh, Binding Chaos: Mass Collaboration on a Global Scale

“Whoever maintains authority over the work of others maintains the hierarchical system and prevents workers from having autonomy, mastery and control over their own work.”
― Heather Marsh, Binding Chaos: Mass Collaboration on a Global Scale

“Once you've given something away, history has shown, that whatever you gave, is rarely given back voluntarely. Remember, 'something' includes your right to eat what you like, say what you think, go where you please or choose to associate with.”
― Monaristw

“Power does not fall when it is fought. It dies when it is no longer needed.”
― pierre lagrenat, UNREACHABLE: Why Politics Was Never the Problem and Participation Was Always the Trap