Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.
The global economy is a doomsday machine that must be stopped and reprogrammed.
America, the great liberator, is in desperate need of being liberated from itself - from its own excesses and arrogance. And the world needs to be liberated from American values and culture, spreading across the planet as if by divine providence.
The commercial media are to the mental environment what factories are to the physical environment
Overconsumption is the mother of all environmental problems. For the first time in the history of capitalism, consumption itself has become controversial.
People look at the future and see a black hole. They look at climate change and see an ecological crisis. They look at their leaders corrupted by money and see a political crisis. They wonder if they'll ever be able to pay off their student loan or own a house. Given this ecological, political and financial crisis, what they want is a different future. Their fundamental demand is a different regime to provide that future.
A meme (rhymes with dream) is a unit of information (a catchphrase, a concept, a tune, a notion of fashion, philosophy or politics) that leaps from brain to brain. Memes compete with one another for replication, and are passed down through a population much the same way genes pass through a species. Potent memes can change minds, alter behavior, catalyze collective mindshifts and transform cultures. Which is why meme warfare has become the geopolitical battle of our information age. Whoever has the memes has the power.
It's just a matter of writing the kind of book I enjoy reading. Something better be happening at the beginning, and then on every page after, or I get irritated.
Spiritual empowerment is evidenced in our lives by our willingness to tell ourselves the truth, to listen to the truth when it's told to us, and to dispense truth as lovingly as possible, when we feel compelled to talk from the heart.
City lights shine bright on my complexion, Self-reflection. . . red hairs flashing at the intersection. Life is a green light, one star, no script, Supporting actors. . . fresh peaches, no pit.
When I was a kid, no one would believe anything positive that you could say about black people. That's a terrible burden.