I do love you and what else matters but that
The power to do things for people is also the power to do things to people.
A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.
There can be no greater stretch of arbitrary power than is required to seize children from their parents, teach them whatever the authorities decree they shall be taught, and expropriate from the parents the funds to pay for the procedure.
Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It is the result of their deliberate actions, long persevered in, which they hold to be motivated by high ideals toward virtuous ends.
People mostly do as they like, and that would be fine if they'd let other people do the same.
Freedom is dangerous. Possibly crawling on all fours might be safer than standing upright, but we like the view better up there.
[All the ancient wisdom] tells us that work is necessary to us, as much a part of our condition as mortality; that good work is our salvation and our joy; that shoddy or dishonest or self-serving work is our curse and our doom. We have tried to escape the sweat and sorrow promised in Genesis - only to find that, in order to do so, we must forswear love and excellence, health and joy. (pg. 44, "The Unsettling of America")
Embracing a low carbon economy will be as momentous as the previous industrial revolutions. As the shift from coal to oil did. And the shift from gas light to electric light. It has the potential to give us the competitive edge in the new global economy. The scale of the challenge is extraordinary. We will need to reinvent in the way we live our lives, the way our world works
And that's what art is, a form in which people can reflect on who we are as human beings and come to some understanding of this journey we are on.
It wasn't until Duotones that I felt my true voice come out.