Illusion and Reality – Jean Baudrillard Quote
“Illusion is no longer possible, because the real is no longer possible.”
Jean Baudrillard
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Augustine of Hippo Quotes: The Power of Truth Like a Lion
“The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.”
Augustinus von Hippo
Bertrand Russell Quote: Why Expert Consensus Should Warn You!
“When all experts agree, you need to watch out.”
Bertrand Russell
Robert Simmon Quotes: The Creation of the Famous Blue Marble Unveiled!
“The hard part was creating a flat map of the Earth’s surface with four months’ of satellite data. Reto Stockli, now at the Swiss Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology, did much of this work. Then we wrapped the flat map around a ball. My part was integrating the surface, clouds, and oceans to match people’s expectations of how Earth looks from space. That ball became the famous Blue Marble.”
Robert Simmon
Chris Hedges on the Dangerous Illusion of Reality – Insights from Empire of Illusion
“A public that can no longer distinguish between truth and fiction is left to interpret reality through illusion. Random facts or obscure bits of data and trivia are used either to bolster illusion and give it credibility, or discarded if they interfere with the message. The worse reality becomes—for example, as foreclosures and unemployment skyrocket—the more people seek refuge and comfort in illusions. When opinions cannot be distinguished from facts, when there is no universal standard to determine truth in law, in science, in scholarship, or in reporting the events of the day, when the most valued skill is the ability to entertain, the world becomes a place where lies become true, where people can believe what they want to believe. This is the real danger of pseudo-events and why pseudo-events are far more pernicious than stereotypes. They do not explain reality, as stereotypes attempt to, but replace reality. Pseudo-events redefine reality by the parameters set by their creators. These creators, who make massive profits selling illusions, have a vested interest in maintaining the power structures they control.”
Chris Hedges
Wolfgang Borchert Quote: The Generation Without Ties and Depth – A Profound Truth
“We are the generation without ties and without depth. Our depth is the abyss. We are the generation without happiness, without home and without farewell. Our sun is narrow, our love is cruel and our youth is without youth. And we are the generation without boundaries, without restraint and protection – cast out of the playpen of childhood into a world prepared for us by those who despise us for it.”
Wolfgang Borchert
Martha Gellhorn Quote: Why Politics Matters to Everyone and You Can’t Look Away!
“People often say, with pride, ‘I’m not interested in politics.’ They might as well say, ‘I’m not interested in my standard of living, my health, my job, my rights, my freedoms, my future or any future.’ … If we mean to keep any control over our world and lives, we must be interested in politics.”
Martha Gellhorn
Max Nordau | The citizen is in chains
“The form in which all European states are governed today allows the services demanded of citizens to be squandered on foolish, frivolous and criminal undertakings. The whim of individuals, the self-interest of vanishingly small minorities, all too often determines the goal towards which the efforts of the whole are directed. Thus the individual citizen works and bleeds so that wars may be waged which destroy his life or his prosperity, so that fortresses, palaces, railroads, harbors or canals may be built from which neither he nor nine-tenths of the nation will ever derive the slightest benefit, so that new offices may be created, which will make the state machine still more cumbersome, the friction of its wheels still harder, in which he will lose still more of his time, still more of his freedom, so that officials may be highly paid who have no other purpose than to lead an ornamental existence at his expense and to make his existence more difficult; In a word, he works and bleeds in order to make his yoke heavier and his chains tighter and to create the possibility of obtaining even more work and even more blood from him….”
Max Nordau
True Freedom Lies in Harmony with the Elements – Unknown
“True freedom lies in harmony with the elements.”
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Sailing Is the Closest Connection – Unknown
“Sailing is the closest connection a person can have with the elements.”
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