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“Within this culture wealth is measured by one's ability to consume and destroy.”
― Endgame, Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization
― Endgame, Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization
“Writing is really very easy. Tap a vein and bleed onto the page. Everything else is just technical.”
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“Many Indians have told me that the most basic difference between Western and indigenous ways of being is that Westerners view the world as dead, and not as filled with speaking, thinking, feeling subjects as worthy and valuable as themselves.”
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“To pretend that civilization can exist without destroying its own landbase and the landbases and cultures of others is to be entirely ignorant of history, biology, thermodynamics, morality, and self-preservation.”
― Endgame, Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization
― Endgame, Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization
“To reverse the effects of civilization would destroy the dreams of a lot of people. There's no way around it. We can talk all we want about sustainability, but there's a sense in which it doesn't matter that these people's dreams are based on, embedded in, intertwined with, and formed by an inherently destructive economic and social system. Their dreams are still their dreams. What right do I -- or does anyone else -- have to destroy them.
At the same time, what right do they have to destroy the world?”
― Endgame, Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization
At the same time, what right do they have to destroy the world?”
― Endgame, Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization
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