“I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals; I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object.”
― Mythologies
― Mythologies
“The timing of even the smallest act of your life lived as mantra and ritual can alter everything. Therefore - life as ritual, art as mantra.”
― Damn! Meta-Novelty: The Surrealist Anti-Novel To Heal The World
― Damn! Meta-Novelty: The Surrealist Anti-Novel To Heal The World
“But no moral philosopher, from Aristotle to Aquinas, to John Locke and Adam Smith, divorced economics from a set of moral ends or held the production of wealth to be an end in itself; rather it was seen as a means to the realization of virtue, a means of leading a civilized life.”
― The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism
― The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism
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