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“Anarchism is democracy taken seriously.”
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“Nobody exists on purpose. Nobody belongs anywhere. Everybody's gonna die. Come watch TV”
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“There are times when the law jeopardizes those who obey it.”
― Pussy, King of the Pirates
― Pussy, King of the Pirates
“Traditional hedonism...was based on the direct experience of pleasure: wine, women and song; sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll; or whatever the local variant. The problem, from a capitalist perspective, is that there are inherent limits to all this. People become sated, bored...Modern self-illusory hedonism solves this dilemma because here, what one is really consuming are fantasies and day-dreams about what having a certain product would be like.”
― Possibilities: Essays on Hierarchy, Rebellion, and Desire
― Possibilities: Essays on Hierarchy, Rebellion, and Desire
“When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.”
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Tom’s 2025 Year in Books
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