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Jake Russo
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“Everything in our background has prepared us to know and resist a prison when the gates begin to close around us . . . But what if there are no cries of anguish to be heard? Who is prepared to take arms against a sea of amusements? To whom do we complain, and when, and in what tone of voice, when serious discourse dissolves into giggles? What is the antidote to a culture's being drained by laughter?”
― Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
― Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
“The greater the ambiguity, the greater the pleasure.”
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“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Twilight of the Idols
― Twilight of the Idols
“Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.”
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“I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.”
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"Your Politics Are Boring As Fuck"
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— last activity Apr 20, 2012 07:19AM
"You know it's true. Otherwise, why does everyone cringe when you say the word? Why has attendance at your anarcho-communist theory discussion group m ...more
The Postmodern Discussion
— 227 members
— last activity Dec 19, 2014 08:30PM
A group devoted to the discussion of contemporary continental philosophy, postmodernism, poststructuralism, deconstructivism and other movements of cr ...more
The Guttering Flame
— 75 members
— last activity Nov 28, 2011 08:35PM
This is a little society, a cadre, a coterie of the unlike-minded. Here we discuss Comic Books (or Graphic Novels, if you prefer) as art, aesthetic, l ...more
post-situ anti-authoritarian enrages
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— last activity Oct 07, 2008 11:43AM
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Good Eau Claire Readers
— 25 members
— last activity Jun 03, 2015 04:34PM
goodreaders from Eau Claire! Join together, discuss local books, local authors, bookshops, etc.!
Jake’s 2025 Year in Books
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