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“For a zoned-out, stupefied populace, “democracy” will be nothing more than the right to shop, or to choose between Wendy’s and Burger King, or to stare at CNN and think that this managed infotainment is actually the news. Corporate hegemony, the triumph of global democracy/consumerism based on an American model, is the collapse of American civilization. So a large-scale transformation is indeed going on, but it is one that makes triumph indistinguishable from disintegration.”
― The Twilight of American Culture
― The Twilight of American Culture
“Department stores, hotels, and amusement parks began to dot the landscape, and by World War I, buying was seen as the road to happiness. Money became the measure of everything, friendship and religion included.”
― The Twilight of American Culture
― The Twilight of American Culture
“Tomorrow’s companies will need to nurture authentic leadership over charisma; leaders serving rather than wielding power,”
― No Time to Waste: The Rise of a Regenerative Economy
― No Time to Waste: The Rise of a Regenerative Economy
“Operation Midnight Climax, in which drug-addicted prostitutes were hired to pick up men from local bars and bring them back to a CIA-financed bordello.”
― Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond
― Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond
“The CIA later found out that Sandoz had never produced LSD in quantities even remotely resembling ten kilograms. Apparently only ten milligrams were for sale, but a CIA contact in Switzerland mistook a kilogram, 1000 grams, for a milligram (.001 grams), which would explain the huge discrepancy.”
― Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond
― Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond
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