“And that is what is behind the abrupt rise in climate change denial among hardcore conservatives: they have come to understand that as soon as they admit that climate change is real, they will lose the central ideological battle of our time—whether we need to plan and manage our societies to reflect our goals and values, or whether that task can be left to the magic of the market.” NeedsRealValuesLeftGoalLosesBehindsPlansMagicBattleTasksClimateClimate ChangeManageDenialOur TimeOur SocietyIdeologicalHardcoreClimate Change Denial Book:This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs. The Climate Source: This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs. The Climate
“Man ever talks, and Man ever dreams Of better days that are yet to be, After glittering goal, that distant gleams, Running and racing untiringly. The worldly may grow old and young as it will, But the Hope of man is Improvement still. Hope bears him into life in her arms, She flutters around the boy's young bloom, The soul of youth with her magic warms, Nor rests with age in the silent tomb; For ends man his weary course at the grave, There plants he Hope o'er his ashes to wave.” MenMayStillsSoulEndsDreamRunningAgeYoungCoursesHopeGrowsGoalBoysMagicYouthArmsBearsPlantSilentWaveImprovementGravesRacingAshesWearyWorldlyTombsGleamBetter Days Author:Friedrich Schiller
“Suddenly creativity is the popular goal. Ironically, a quality dissonant with our conventional education process is greatly in demand in adults - and those who survive the system without losing their creative integrity are richly rewarded. The magic word in a book's title almost ensures sales: Creative Stitchery, Creative Cookery, Creative Gardening. ... Perhaps we are trying to develop something that was innately ours.” TryingBookProcessGoalQualityCreativityCreativeMagicIntegrityDemandLosingAdultsTitlesGardeningConventionalCookeryMagic Words Author:Marilyn Ferguson
“The 'civil rights' revolutionary groups are a case in point. Their goal is not equality but power. The background of Negro culture is African and magic, and the purposes of magic are control and power. . . Voodoo or magic was the religion and life of American Negroes. Voodoo songs underlie jazz, and old voodoo, with its power goal, has been merely replaced with revolutionary voodoo, a modernized power drive.” Has BeensPurposeReligionSongCultureGoalCasesRightsMagicGroupsJazzBackgroundsCivil RightsRevolutionaryReplacedVoodoo Author:R.J. Rushdoony
“A powerful tool in the early stages of developing scenarios is to pretend the interface is magic. If your persona has goals and the product has magical powers to meet them, how simple could the interaction be? This kind of thinking is useful to help designers look outside the box.” IfsThinkingLooksKindHelpingGoalSimplePowerfulMagicStageProductsToolsBoxesDevelopingDesignerInteractionScenariosPersonaInterfacesOutside The Box Book:About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design Source: About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design
“Obviously, therefore, we must be able to transcribe what is in us into our mental and objective consciousness, by establishing a relationship between the life in us and observation of that life in Nature. This we find supremely well expressed by the ancient Egyptians. It is a knowledge of magic, pure and sane, which can lead rapidly toward the spiritual goal of our lives, owing to the fact that we can evoke, by means of the sympathy of analogues in our surroundings, the consciousness of the heart latent in us.” WellsHeartMeanFactsAbleSpiritualGoalConsciousnessOur LivesMagicPureAncientObjectivesObservationSaneSurroundingsEvokeLatentOwingAnalogueAncient Egyptian Author:R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz
“Let us tread upon this path to this supreme Godhead practically and step by step, beginning from the lowest sphere, to arrive at the true realization of God in ourselves. Let us praise the happy man who will reach this still in his earthly existence. Us banish fear of the pains, for all of us will reach this goal.” MenStillsPainGoalExistenceStepsPathMagicPraiseSupremeRealizationMysticismSpheresLowestHappy Man Author:Franz Bardon
“It turns out most of the conclusions that I've come to in life have equally valid contradictions. I think it's true you need to make a plan, set a goal and stick to it, but I would also advise: Don't keep your eyes so fixed on your goal that you miss what sneaks up to surprise you, because magic will come from unexpected places.” ThinkingNeedsEyeTurnsGoalPlansMagicMissingSticksSurpriseConclusionFixedUnexpectedContradictionAdviseSneakTrue YouUnexpected Places Author:Paul Reiser
“The goal of all my work is essentially the same: demonstrating that magic is real or that reality is magic, by paying attention, and finding compensation or consolation for what is essentially a tragic existence.” RealRealityGoalExistenceAttentionMagicFindingsPay AttentionTragicConsolationCompensationDemonstrating Author:Peter Blegvad