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“There comes into the life of every man a task for which he and he alone is uniquely suited. What a shame if that moment finds him either unwilling or unprepared for that which would become his finest hour.”
― Winston Churchill

“We have to create culture, don't watch TV, don't read magazines, don't even listen to NPR. Create your own roadshow. The nexus of space and time where you are now is the most immediate sector of your universe, and if you're worrying about Michael Jackson or Bill Clinton or somebody else, then you are disempowered, you're giving it all away to icons, icons which arei maintained by an electronic media so that you want to dress like X or have lips like Y. This is shit-brained, this kind of thinking.
That is all cultural diversion, and what is real is you and your friends and your associations, your highs, your orgasms, your hopes, your plans, your fears. And we are told 'no', we're unimportant, we're peripheral. 'Get a degree, get a job, get a this, get a that.' And then you're a player, you don't want to even play in that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that's being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.”
― terence makenna

“Enthusiasm and adventure

In all cases, propaganda of agitation tries to stretch energies to the utmost, obtain substantial sacrifices, and induce the in­dividual to bear heavy ordeals. It takes him out of his everyday life, his normal framework, and plunges him into enthusiasm and adventure; it opens to him hitherto unsuspected possibilities, and suggests extraordinary goals that nevertheless seem to him completely within reach. Propaganda of agitation thus unleashes an explosive movement; it operates inside a crisis or actually provokes the crisis itself. On the other hand, such propaganda can obtain only effects of relatively short duration. If the proposed objective is not achieved fast enough, enthusiasm will give way to discour­agement and despair. Therefore specialists in agitation propa­ganda break up the desired goals into a series of stages to be reached one by one.”
― Jacques Ellul, Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes

“I made my mind a sunless place

I share my dreams with ghosts

I wake up every day to an equation I wrote 15 years ago, from which there’s only one conclusion

I’m damned for what I do

My anger, my ego, my unwillingness to yield, my eagerness to fight

They’ve set me on a path from which there is no escape

I yearned to be a savior against injustice without contemplating the cost and by the time I looked down, there was no longer any ground beneath my feet

What’s my sacrifice?

I’m condemned to use the tools of my enemy to defeat them

I burn my decency for someone else’s future

I burn my life to make a sunrise that I know I’ll never see

And the ego that started this fight will never have a mirror, or an audience or the light of gratitude

So what do I sacrifice

EVERYTHING

So you’ll stay with me Lonni

I need all the heroes I can get”
― Andor