Scott Goldstrom

“In the egocentric prism the helpless victim is walled in by the very light which he refracts. The ego dies in its own glass cage...”
― Henry Miller, Sexus

“The aim of Operation Mindfuck was to lead people into such a heightened state of bewilderment and confusion that their rigid beliefs would shatter and be replaced by some form of enlightenment.”
― John Higgs, KLF: Chaos Magic Music Money

“Our normal waking consciousness . . . is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the flimsiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different. We may go through life without suspecting their existence; but apply the requisite stimulus and at a touch they are all there in all their completeness . . . No account of the universe in its totality can be final which leaves these other forms of consciousness quite disregarded.”
― William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience

“Adeline hadn't owned a television since 1992.
She'd suffered fifteen years hearing about how the Internet would transform American culture and open new avenues of expression.
But in the end, it was only more people talking about television.”
― Jarett Kobek, I Hate the Internet