Thoughts for Naught

We are in great need of reality in our time

"Self-theory is the body of critical thought you construct for your own use. You construct it and use it when you make an analysis of why your life is the way it is, why the world is the way it is... You build your self-theory when you develop a theory of practice - a theory of how to get what you desire for your life...

"Those who assume (usually unconsciously) the impossibility of realizing their life's desires, and of thus fighting for 'themselves', usually end up fighting for an ideal or cause instead (i.e. the illusion of self-activity or self-practice). Those who know that this is the acceptance of alienation will now know that all ideals and causes are 'ideologies'.

"Whenever a system of ideas is structured with an abstraction at the centre - assigning a role or duties to you for its sake - this system is an ideology. An ideology is a system of false consciousness in which you no longer function as the subject in your relation to the world.

"The various forms of ideology are all structured around different abstractions, yet they all serve the interests of a dominant (or aspiring dominant) class by giving you a sense of purpose in your sacrifice, suffering and submission...

"In accepting ideologies we accept an inversion of subject and object; things take on a human power and will, while human beings have their place as things. Ideology is upside down theory."




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It is not enough for a handful of experts to attempt the solution of a problem, to solve it and then to apply it. The restriction of knowledge to an elite group destroys the spirit of society and leads to its intellectual impoverishment."

Albert Einstein

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"The task for a modern industrial society is to achieve what is
now technically realizable, namely, a society which is really
based on free voluntary participation of people who produce and
create, live their lives freely within institutions they control,
and with limited hierarchical structures, possibly none at all"

Noam Chomsky

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"Nationalism is an infantile disease"

Albert Einstein.


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"My country is the world and my religion is to do good."

Thomas Paine

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All truth passes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Second it is violently opposed. Third it is accepted as being self-evident.

Schopenhauer


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" Basically the message is: Steal It! Art, music, culture, the odd book and the slab of cheese... the new will be built upon the ruins of the old. "

Buenaventura Durruti

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"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever
that it is not utterly absurd; indeed, in view of the silliness of the majority
of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible."

Bertrand Russell

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The most violent element in society is ignorance.