“We live in a very special time right now. At no other time in history has there been such mass disillusionment in terms of reliance on governing functions. Most people don’t want to come to terms with that. It’s been proven over and over again that the emperor isn’t wearing any clothes, but most people don’t like to look at naked emperors. In the process of turning around to avert their eyes, they saw the discotheques and a few other things and latched onto them.” PeopleWantLooksEyeProcessTermSawsSpecialRight NowClothesMassFunctionNakedProvenRelianceGoverningEmperorDisillusionmentAvertSpecial Times Author:Frank Zappa
“[T]he democratic principle of "one man, one vote," viewed against a background of voting masses numbering several millions, only serves to demonstrate the pitiful helplessness of the inarticulate individual, who functions at the polls as the smallest indivisible arithmetical (and not always algebraic) unit. He acts in total anonymity, secrecy and legal irresponsibility.” MenIndividualPrinciplesMillionsMassVoteFunctionDemocraticBackgroundsVotingOne ManSmallestUnitsPollsSecrecyHelplessnessAnonymityPitifulIndivisibleIrresponsibilityInarticulate Author:Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
“Because of a mass media more interested in gossip and sensationalism than real issues, I would say a vast majority of the American public doesn't have a clue about how the Congress functions and what goes on.” RealIssuesMediaGoes OnMassFunctionMajorityCongressGossipClueMass MediaSensationalism Author:Bernie Sanders
“I don't think that mass drug taking is a good idea. But I think that we must have a deputized minority, a shamanic professional class if you will, whose job is to bring ideas out of the deep black water and show them off to the rest of us and perform for our culture some of the cultural functions that shaman perform in pre-literate cultures.” IfsThinkingIdeasShowsJobsCultureBlackWaterClassDrugMassFunctionMinoritiesGood IdeasDrug Taking Author:Terence McKenna
“The function of a bourgeois democracy is to secure the consent of the masses to their own exploitation and oppression.” DemocracyMassFunctionOppressionSecureExploitationConsentBourgeois Author:Tariq Ali
“Mass society has displaced real community, where people function together and account for their own lives.” PeopleRealTogetherCommunityMassAccountsFunction Author:John Zerzan
“There are thousands of proteins in the cells, some of them very large chains of molecules. And the cell doesn't function if one of those chains of molecules isn't there, and you start looking at the complexity of life and the mystery of life, and then start thinking about things like the twenty universal constants, that if any one of them from Plank's minimum to the mass of a proton, if one of them is the tiniest bit off, there would be no life or possibility of it in the universe.” IfsThinkingWould BeUniverseBitsMysteryPossibilityMassUniversalFunctionTwentiesChainsCellsComplexityMinimumMoleculesProteinMystery Of LifeProton Author:Dean Koontz
“People are obscenities. Would rather be music than be a mass of tubes squeezing semisolids around itself for a few decades before becoming so dribblesome it'll no longer function.” PeopleBecomingMassFunctionDecadesTubesObscenitySqueezing Book:Cloud Atlas: A Novel Source: Cloud Atlas: A Novel
“For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty would become literate and would learn to think for themselves; and when once they had done this, they would sooner or later realise that the privileged minority had no function, and they would sweep it away. In the long run, a hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance.” IfsThinkingHumansLongDoneRunningHuman BeingsPovertySecurityIgnoranceMassFunctionBasesEnjoyedMinoritiesRealisingLeisureLong RunsSooner Or LaterPrivilegedIgnorance In 19841984 Important Book:Animal Farm and 1984 Source: Animal Farm and 1984
“Once upon a time ... the only autonomous intelligences we humans knew of were us humans. We thought then that if humankind ever devised another intelligence that it would be the result of a huge project ... a great mass of silicon and ancient transistors and chips and circuit boards ... a machine with lots of networking circuits, in other words, aping-if you will pardon the expression-the human brain in form and function. Of course, AIs did not evolve that way. They sort of slipped into existence when we humans were looking the other way.” IfsWayHumansWould BeFormCoursesResultsExistenceBrainExpressionHugeProjectsMassMachinesFunctionAncientEvolveBoardsHumankindChipsNetworkingPardonOnce Upon A TimeCircuitsHuman BrainSiliconAutonomousTransistors Author:Dan Simmons
“The English masses are lovable: they are kind, decent, tolerant, practical and not stupid. The tragedy is that they are too many of them, and that they are aimless, having outgrown the servile functions for which they were encouraged to multiply. One day these huge crowds will have to seize power because there will be nothing else for them to do, and yet they neither demand power nor are ready to make use of it; they will learn only to be bored in a new way.” WayKindUsePowerStupidReadyHugeOne DayDemandMassFunctionTragedyCrowdsPracticalsBoredDecentNew WaysLovableNot Stupid Author:Cyril Connolly
“It has become obligatory to fulfil a function which shall in some way be regarded as useful to the masses...Even an articulated mass always tends to become unspiritual and inhuman. It is life without existence, superstition without faith. It may stamp all flat; it is disinclined to tolerate independence and greatness, but prone to constrain people to become as automatic as ants.” PeopleWayMayExistenceGreatnessMassFunctionIndependenceFlatsSuperstitionsTolerateStampsAntsInhumanConstrain Author:Karl Jaspers
“The basic function of the government everywhere in all times, whatever title it adopts and whatever its origin and organisation may be, is always that of oppressing and exploiting the masses, of defending the oppressors and the exploiters: and it's principal, characteristic and indispensable instruments are the police agent and the tax-collector, the soldier and the gaoler - to whom must be invariably added the trader in lies, be he priest of schoolmaster, remunerated or protected by the government to enslave minds and make them docilely accept the yoke.” MindMayGovernmentLyingAcceptingTaxesMassFunctionPoliceInstrumentsSoldierAll TimeAgentsTitlesCharacteristicsPriestsProtectedPrincipalIndispensableOrganisationCollectorsOppressorsYokeTraders Author:Errico Malatesta