“If someone like Karl Rove had wanted to neutralize the most creative, intelligent, and passionate members of his opposition, he'd have a hard time coming up with a better tool than Burning Man. Exile them to the wilderness, give them a culture in which alpha status requires months of focus and resource-consumptive preparation, provide them with metric tons of psychotropic confusicants, and then... ignore them. It's a pretty safe bet that they won't be out registering voters, or doing anything that might actually threaten electoral change, when they have an art car to build.” IfsMenGivingArtHardMightWantedCultureCreativeFocusCarMonthsSafeMembersResourcesToolsIntelligentPassionateBurningPreparationHard TimesOppositionWildernessVotersExileAlphasMetricsBurning Man Author:John Perry Barlow
“I cannot significantly improve on the assertion that it simply is proper for us, as intelligent members of the universe, to try to look after our fellow creatures, and evil for us to do otherwise.” TryingLooksUniverseEvilCreaturesMembersIntelligentFellowsAssertion Book:Last Animals at the Zoo: How Mass Extinction Can Be Stopped Source: Last Animals at the Zoo: How Mass Extinction Can Be Stopped
“You've a very important, early decision to make in your life: are you going to be alone, or are you going to be with somebody else? Are you going to be sane, or not lonely? A couple is a strange thing; it's an organism that's half as intelligent as the most intelligent member. And you both know who it is!” KnowsImportantHumorFunnyDecisionHalfStrangeCoupleMembersLonelyIntelligentSaneOrganismsStrange Things Author:Dylan Moran