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“Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to make sure that life survives; not to chase clout, but to chase life.”
— Naomi Klein, Doppelgänger: a Trip into the Mirror World (2023)”
― Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
— Naomi Klein, Doppelgänger: a Trip into the Mirror World (2023)”
― Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
“The building of a good society is not primarily a social, but a psychic task.”
― The Making of a Counter Culture: Reflections on the Technocratic Society and Its Youthful Opposition
― The Making of a Counter Culture: Reflections on the Technocratic Society and Its Youthful Opposition
“So subtle and so well rationalized have the arts of technocratic domination become in our advanced industrial societies that even those in the state and/or corporate structure who dominate our lives must find it impossible to conceive of themselves as the agents of totalitarian control. Rather, they easily see themselves as the conscientious managers of a munificent social system.”
― The Making of a Counter Culture: Reflections on the Technocratic Society and Its Youthful Opposition
― The Making of a Counter Culture: Reflections on the Technocratic Society and Its Youthful Opposition
“Nothing we come upon in the world can any longer speak to us in its own rights … [They] have been deprived of the voice with which they once declared their mystery to men.”
― The Making of a Counter Culture: Reflections on the Technocratic Society and Its Youthful Opposition
― The Making of a Counter Culture: Reflections on the Technocratic Society and Its Youthful Opposition
“We are told that the way things are is the only way they can be, because every other model has supposedly already been tried, and all have failed. But these ideas about different ways of being and thinking and living did not all fail; rather, many of them fell, crushed by political violence and racial terror. Being crushed is not the same as failing, because what was crushed can be revived, reimagined anew.
— Naomi Klein, “Doppelgänger: A Trip into the Mirrorworld” (2023)”
― Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
— Naomi Klein, “Doppelgänger: A Trip into the Mirrorworld” (2023)”
― Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
John’s 2025 Year in Books
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