“In Russia no one is surprised when an official accepts a bribe while at the same time portraying the state as some sacred entity to which the bourgeois should pay homage. This all sounds absurd. But for Russians it is completely normal.” ShouldStatesSoundPayAcceptingNormalSacredRussiaAbsurdOfficialsEntityBourgeoisHomageBribePortraying Author:Vladimir Sorokin
“I don't take so-called "vacations" often. In fact vacations are more stressful than the lives my wife and I worked hard to set up for ourselves in New York. It seems like being on vacation is like normal living, which is not very satisfying. It means we're figuring out what to make for lunch today, and that seems like such an absurd way to live. The issue of dealing with that doesn't seem to be so prominent back home. It sounds so silly and ridiculous, but it's really the way it is. We love what we do, so I prefer being in the studio; that's really living for me.” WayMeanHardFactsHomeSeemsTodaySoundIssuesWifeNew YorkNormalStudiosMy WifeRidiculousSillyAbsurdLunchSatisfyingVacationStressfulBack HomeWay To LiveProminentReally Living Author:Ryan McGinness
“One of my central approaches to writing speculative fiction is to take an absurd situation, which we presently feel is normal, and then push it to an even further absurdity. It's only in this light that we can see the reflection of the disturbing state of our present-day affairs.” FeelsWritingStatesLightFictionSituationNormalApproachReflectionAffairAbsurdAbsurdityDisturbingPresent DaySpeculative Fiction Author:Alexander Weinstein
“The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of one’s mind, is the condition of the normal man. Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed perhaps 100,000,000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years.” MenYearsMindChildrenLastsValuesLosesLearningConditionsNormalFellowsSocial JusticeAbsurdFiftyUnconsciousEducateAlienationSchooledUnschoolingEducated ManProblems In School Book:The Politics of Experience Source: The Politics of Experience