Global capitalism is simply accepted as a fact that you cannot do anything about. The only question is, Will you accommodate yourself to it, or will you be dismissed and excluded?
the arts are life accelerated and concentrated.
One's own surroundings means so much to one, when one is feeling miserable.
I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.
The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
Winter is the time for comfort - it is the time for home.
Your soul: pure glucose edged with hints Of tentative and half-soiled tints
I was not good in school. I could never read very fast or very well. I got tested for learning disabilities, for dyslexia. Then I got put on Ritalin and Dexedrine. I took those starting in the eighth grade. As soon as they pumped that drug into me, it would focus me right in.
Peter Tertzakian's analysis of world oil is a fascinating reminder that history often foretells the major turning points of the future.
I felt landscapes would sell more readily, and not being equipped psychologically to be a teacher or commercial artist, that was important.
Never before have people been so infantalized, made so dependant on the machine for everything; as the earth rapidly approaches its extinction due to technology, our souls are shrunk and flattened by its pervasive rule. Any sense of wholeness and freedom can only return by the undoing of the massive division of labour at the heart of technological progress. This is the liberatory project in all its depth.