Kazimirko

“Grrrrr.”
― Bear Grylls, Mud, Sweat and Tears

“The repeated deaths of civilizations from internal disintegration and outward assault, massively documented by Arnold Toynbee, underscores the fact that the evil elements in this amalgam largely cancelled the benefits and blessings. The one lasting contribution of the megamachine was the myth of the machine itself: the notion that this machine was, by its very nature, absolutely irresistible- and yet, provided one did not oppose it, ultimately beneficent. That magical spell still enthralls both the controllers and the mass victims of the megamachine today.”
― Lewis Mumford, Technics and Human Development

“The man of today is no longer able to understand his neighbor because his profession is his whole life, and the technical specialization of this life has forced him to live in a closed universe.”
― Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society

“So I lived alone.
The first thing I did was take off my pants. Naturally.”
― Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire