John Myrvik

“Where is the freedom in all this? Nowhere! There is no choice here, no final decision. All decisions concerning networks, screens, information or communication are serial in character, partial, fragmentary, fractal. A mere succession of partial decisions, a microscopic series of partial sequences and objectives, constitute as much the photographer's way of proceeding as that of Telecomputer Man in general, or even that called for by our own most trivial television viewing. All such behaviour is structured in quantum fashion, composed of haphazard sequences of discrete decisions. The fascination derives from the pull of the black box, the appeal of an uncertainty which puts paid to our freedom.
Am I a man or a machine? This anthropological question no longer has an answer. We are thus in some sense witness to the end of anthropology, now being conjured away by the most recent machines and technologies. The uncertainty here is born of the perfecting of machine networks, just as sexual uncertainty (Am I a man or a woman? What has the difference between the sexes become?) is born of increasingly sophisticated manipulation of the unconscious and of the body, and just as science's uncertainty about the status of its object is born of the sophistication of analysis in the microsciences.”
― Jean Baudrillard, The Transparency of Evil: Essays in Extreme Phenomena

“More fortunes in money and in the material things of life have been lost by those who hesitated out of fear than by those who ventured too quickly and without caution.”
― H. Spencer Lewis, Master of the Rose Cross

“Masturbation is the ongoing love affair that each of us has with ourselves throughout our lifetime.”
― Betty Dodson, Sex for One: The Joy of Selfloving

“The lips of Wisdom are closed, except to the ears of Understanding.”
― Three Initiates, Kybalion: A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece