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“All paths are the same: they lead nowhere. ... Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't, it is of no use. Both paths lead nowhere; but one has a heart, the other doesn't. One makes for a joyful journey; as long as you follow it, you are one with it. The other will make you curse your life. One makes you strong; the other weakens you.”
― The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge
― The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge
“One the one hand, our economists treat human beings as rational actors making choices to maximize their own economic benefit. On the other hand, the same companies that hire those economists also pay for advertising campaigns that use the raw materials of myth and magic to encourage people to act against their own best interests, whether it's a matter of buying overpriced fizzy sugar water or the much more serious matter of continuing to support the unthinking pursuit of business as usual in the teeth of approaching disaster.”
― The Long Descent: A User's Guide to the End of the Industrial Age
― The Long Descent: A User's Guide to the End of the Industrial Age
“The situation is like this: they hired our parents to destroy this world, and now they'd like to put us to work rebuilding it, and -- to add insult to injury -- at a profit.”
― The Coming Insurrection
― The Coming Insurrection
“It's always possible to wake someone from sleep, but no amount of noise will wake someone who is pretending to be asleep.”
― Eating Animals
― Eating Animals
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