Whitney

“The mainstream liberal Left de facto elevates to the hegemonic role the topics of the so-called Culture War (trans rights, abortion …) and racism, usually just paying lip service to economic issues or simply ignoring them. In this way it is alienating millions of lower- and middle-class ordinary families in small towns and farmland who are not actively against LGBT+ but just want to live their traditional lives – they could be mobilized for many measures (against big corporations and banks, for more accessible healthcare, student loans …), so it is as if the liberal Left is intentionally sabotaging big common causes (no wonder some Leftists mean they are doing it intentionally).”
― Slavoj Žižek, Christian Atheism: How to Be a Real Materialist

“Mother indulgent. Said I have a queer mind and have read too much. Not true. Have read little and understood less.”
― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“Has it ever occurred to any of you that all this is simply one grand misunderstanding? Since you're not here to learn anything, but to be taught so you can pass these tests, knowledge has to be organized so it can be taught, and it has to be reduced to information so it can be organized do you follow that? In other words this leads you to assume that organization is an inherent property of the knowledge itself, and that disorder and chaos are simply irrelevant forces that threaten it from the outside. In fact it's exactly the opposite. Order is simply a thin, perilous condition we try to impose on the basic reality of chaos...”
― William Gaddis, J R

“And nothing was interesting, nothing. The people were restrictive and careful, all alike. And I've got to live with these fuckers for the rest of my life, I thought. God, they all had assholes and sexual organs and their mouths and their armpits. They shit and they chattered and they were dull as horse dung. The girls looked good from a distance, the sun shining through their dresses, their hair. But get up close and listen to their minds running out of their mouths, you felt like digging in under a hill and hiding out with a tommy-gun.”
― Charles Bukowski