“Governance is not measured by the power it holds, but by the quiet difference it makes in everyday lives.”
“So you give them the script. It’s part of the scheme: You say, 'Living the dream, baby. Just living the dream.' And you wink. The wink is the punctuation mark of the lie. It sells the performance. It stops them from asking why.”
Source: Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”
“The more rigid the rules of a society, the more insecure the rulers.”
“I see it everywhere now, this creeping plague of absolute militant indifference. Nonchalant this, nonchalant that. What the fuck is actually going on here?”
Source: Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”
“The social justice barometer is impossible to reconcile for everyone.”
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“We live in a society where we are all acting, even though we are not actors.”
“Nothing is wrong with you. Your environment has quietly changed.”
Source: The Age of Drift: Why Modern Life Feels Fake – and What Reality Drift Reveals About the Modern Mind
“Hrubý národní produkt nebere v úvahu zdraví našich dětí, kvalitu jejich vzdělání nebo radost jejich her. Nezahrnuje krásu naší poezie nebo stabilitu našich manželství, inteligenci veřejné debaty nebo politickou soudržnost... zkrátka měří všechno, jen ne to, co činí život hodnotným.”
“Of course, being crazy can instead be a stubborn expression of self-destructive willfulness. There appear to be many people who choose to go crazy (or become alcoholics, addicts, criminals, suicides) rather than have to bear the pain and ambiguity of a life situation that they have decided that they cannot stand. With such patients, I try to make clear that I cannot prevent their going mad, but that I will not follow their madcap course from home to hospital and back. They may have any crazy feelings and ideas they wish, but in their community they have to act as if they were sane, if they want me to accompany them on their pilgrimage. The irresponsible act of going crazy, in order not to have to face up to the mess they have created in their own lives, is not one to which I wish to be an accomplice.”
Source: If You Meet the Buddha on the Road, Kill Him! The Pilgrimage of Psychotherapy Patients
“At that moment, for the first time ever, I felt I'd become a part in the machine of society. I've been reborn, I thought. That day, I actually became a normal cog in society.”
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