Grayden

“... the repression of primitive, violent impulses in favor of civilized behavior was a control mechanism for the more shrewdly aggressive dominators who successfully channeled *their* primitive, violent impulses into a socially acceptable form known as 'ruthlessness,' while monopolizing the right to use outright violence as a last resort for maintaining an otherwise indefensible accumulation of power and wealth.”
― R. U. Sirius

“Just as early industrial capitalism moved the focus of existence from being to having, post-industrial culture has moved that focus from having to appearing.”
― Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle

“Progress! Progress through everybody dying and their kids eventually not caring who their parents hated!”
― Ryan North

“Yes, we have a soul, but it's made of lots of tiny robots.”
― Giulio Giorello