Ray Johns

“you’ve got to plan for the nonshopper as much as the shopper.”
― Paco Underhill, Call of the Mall: The Author of Why We Buy on the Geography of Shopping

“Whatever can be the meaning of this life? If we divide mankind into two large classes, we can say that one works for a living, the other has no need to. But working for one’s living can’t be the meaning of life; to suppose that constantly procuring the conditions of life should be the answer to the question of the meaning of what they make possible is a contradiction. Usually the lives of the other class have no meaning either, beyond that of consuming the said conditions. To say that”
― Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or: A Fragment of Life

“There is no money in what is aptly called free association: we are instead encouraged by media and advertising to fear each other and regard public life as a danger and a nuisance, to live in secured spaces, communicate by electronic means, and acquire our information from media rather than each other.”
― Rebecca Solnit, A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster

“As long as a single center has a monopoly on the use of coercion, one has a state rather than a self-governed society.”
― Elinor Ostrom, Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action