“Where do oligarchs come from? They come from people's shallowness. When people stop being shallow, no oligarch shall get to grow, to spread their life-crushing tentacles.” ShallowMaterialisticOligarchyShallownessEconomic DisparityEconomics PhilosophyOligarchsOligarch Book:Either Right or Human: 300 Limericks of Inclusion Source: Either Right or Human: 300 Limericks of Inclusion
“Way of The Slipper (Bug-Repellent Sonnet) This prehistoric world has an instinctual affinity to black and white, binary concepts. Justice is too grand an exercise to be contained by the binary nonsense of violence and nonviolence. Bullets are an act of violence, silence is an act of bookish nonviolence – but there is a third option – the way of the slipper. Slippers are more effective in fighting bugs, than bullets - slippers strip the bugs of power, while bullets make them martyr. With all your slippers combined, the mightiest of tyrant is bound to fall, be it a state head, court judge or copper, or oligarchs rendering democracy into jungle. When people blow their top, billionaires become bum, and presidents turn tramp. Fetch the household bug-repellent from under your feet, and treat the corrupt and bigoted like your offspring gone bad.” DemocracyRevolutionSocial JusticeActivistNonviolenceNaziHuman Rights ActivistNeonaziDictatorsOligarch Book:Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience Source: Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience
“The surpluses will have to be expended somehow, and trust the oligarchs to find a way. Magnificent roads will be built. There will be great achievements in science, and especially in art. When the oligarchs have completely mastered the people, they will have time to spare for other things. They will become worshippers of beauty. They will become art-lovers. And under their direction and generously rewarded, will toil the artists. The result will be great art; for no longer, as up to yesterday, will the artists pander to the bourgeois taste of the middle class. It will be great art, I tell you, and wonder cities will arise that will make tawdry and cheap the cities of old time. And in these cities will the oligarchs dwell and worship beauty” ArtScienceBeautyWorshipJack LondonOligarchAutocratiaIron Heel Author:Jack London