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“Taste, we assume, is innate, reflexive, immediate, involuntary, but we also speak of it as something to be acquired. It is a private, subjective matter, a badge of individual sovereignty, but at the same time a collectively held property, bundling us into clubs, cults, communities, and sociological stereotypes.”
― A.O. Scott, Better Living Through Criticism: How to Think about Art, Pleasure, Beauty and Truth

“To assert as truth that which has no meaning is the core mission of humanity.”
― Tom King, The Vision, Vol. 1: Little Worse Than a Man

“Anti-intellectualism is virtually our civic religion. "Critical thinking" may be a ubiquitous educational slogan—a vaguely defined skill we hope our children pick up on the way to adulthood—but the rewards for not using your intelligence are immediate and abundant.”
― A.O. Scott, Better Living Through Criticism: How to Think About Art, Pleasure, Beauty, and Truth

“I’m not looking to overthrow the American government, the corporate state already has. —JOHN TRUDELL”
― Naomi Klein, No Is Not Enough: Defeating the New Shock Politics