Zed Ecks

“A machine is like a desert. Either it fascinates or appalls you.”
― Wilfrid Noyce, The Springs of Adventure

“It takes courage to knowingly read a book that is challenging some of your cherished beliefs.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“... apart from its function as communication, human language also often functions as a defense. The spoken word conceals the expressive language of the biological core. In many cases, the function of speech has deteriorated to such a degree that the words express nothing whatever and merely represent a continuous, hollow activity on the part of the musculature of the neck and the organs of speech. On the basis of repeated experiences, it is my opinion that in many psychoanalyses which have gone on for years the treatment has become stuck in this pathological use of language. This clinical experience can, indeed has to be applied to the social sphere. Endless numbers of speeches, publications, political debates do not have the function of getting at the root of important questions of life but of drowning them in verbiage.”
― Wilhelm Reich, Character Analysis

“(1) Blurting may be considered as the reciprocal substitution of semiotic material (dubbing) for a semiotic dialogical product in a dynamic reflexion.


The human-written sentences are numbers (1) to 3; they were drawn from the contemporary journal Art-Language and are -- as far as I can tell-- completely serious efforts among literate and sane people to communicate something to each other.”
― Douglas Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid