“One-dimensional thought is systematically promoted by the makers of politics and their purveyors of mass information. Their universe of discourse is populated by self-validating hypotheses which, incessantly and monopolistically repeated, become hyponotic definitions of dictations.”
― One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society
― One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society
“As it turns out, we don't "all" have to pay our debts. Only some of us do.”
― Debt: The First 5,000 Years
― Debt: The First 5,000 Years
“Once you understand how plot, character, and theme all work together, chances are good that, if you get one of them right, you’ll get all three right.”
― Creating Character Arcs: The Masterful Author's Guide to Uniting Story Structure, Plot, and Character Development
― Creating Character Arcs: The Masterful Author's Guide to Uniting Story Structure, Plot, and Character Development
“[A] great embarrassing fact… haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commercial markets originate in theft.”
― Debt: The First 5,000 Years
― Debt: The First 5,000 Years
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