"The Sedentary Life Has Left Us Edgy, Unfulfilled...the Open Road Still Often Calls Like A Nearly Forgotten

Bill Moyers Question: Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt is a tough book. It’s not Dispatches from Disneyworld. It paints some very stark portraits of poverty, despair, destructive behaviour. What makes you think people want to read that sort of thing these days?

Chris Hedges Answer: That’s not a question that Joe Sacco and I ever asked. It is absolutely imperative that we begin to understand what unfettered, unregulated capitalism does – the violence of that system.

Painting by Paco Pomet in Banksy’s Dismaland.

“A fact is an epiphany of God.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Photo by Nicole Ottawa.

“The ratio of CEO pay to average worker pay was 25:1 in 1960. Today it’s 320:1.” - Lynn Forester de Rothschild, Coalition for Inclusive Capitalism

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/15/business/lynn-forester-de-rothschild-corner-office.html

Illustration by John Holcroft

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” - Arthur C. Clark

Illustration by Frank Kelly Freas

Journalism is printing something that someone does not want printed. Everything else is public relations. — George Orwell

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“When we come to it We, this people, on this wayward, floating body Created on this earth, of this earth Have the power to fashion for this earth A climate where every man and every woman Can live freely without sanctimonious piety Without crippling fear

When we come to it We must confess that we are the possible We are the miraculous, the true wonder of this world That is when, and only when We come to it.”

- Excerpt from Maya Angelou’s “A Brave and Startling Truth”

Artwork - Kerry James Marshall

Hard work pays off in the future; laziness pays off now. - Steven Wright

“In the beginning, God said, the four dimensional diversions of an anti-symmetric second rank tensor equals zero, and there was light.” - Michio Kaku

Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. - Goethe

“Just a simple choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one. Here's what we can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride. Take all that money we spend on weapons and defenses each year and instead spend it feeding and clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would pay for many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, forever, in peace.” - Bill Hicks 

https://nerdist.com/bill-hickss-principles-of-comedy/

Photo: Alex Webb, Oaxaca, Mexico, 1982.