Dan Browne

“The so-called consumer society and the politics of corporate capitalism have created a second nature of man which ties him libidinally and aggressively to the commodity form. The need for possessing, consuming, handling and constantly renewing the gadgets, devices, instruments, engines, offered to and imposed upon the people, for using these wares even at the danger of one’s own destruction, has become a “biological” need.”
― Herbert Marcuse

“freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.”
― theodor w. adorno

“The word ‘wrong’ originally meant wrung, twisted. ‘Abstract’ means to pull away from. ‘Human’ meant the soil (humus). ‘Consider’ meant known, con, the stars, sidera. All our abstract words were once metaphors. The boldness of metaphor is a result of limited vocabulary… As language became less crude it became less beautiful, more refined, more abstract—and metaphor became either impossible or ornamental and unnecessary, except in rare instances.”
― Tom Dilworth

“Mythological thinking cannot be superseded, because it forms the framework and context for all thinking”
― Northrop Frye