“The very secret of life for mewas to maintain in the midst of rushing events an inner tranquility. I had picked a life that dealt with excitement, tragedy, mass calamities, human triumphs and suffering. To throw my whole self into recording and attempting to understand these things, I needed an inner serenity as a kind of balance.” HumansKindSelfWholeSufferingSecretEventsNeededBalanceMassTragedyTriumphExcitementMidstSerenityTranquilityAttemptingCalamityRushingSecret Life Author:Margaret Bourke-White
“Because systems of mass communication can communicate only officially acceptable levels of reality, no one can know the extent of the secret unconscious life. No one in America can know what will happen. No one is in real control.” KnowsLifeRealWisdomRealityHappensAmericaAbilityLevelsSecretKnowledgePowerAcceptanceCommunicationMassCommunicateUnconsciousAcceptableMass Communication Book:The Essential Ginsberg Source: The Essential Ginsberg
“but art is not relative to perfection in any tangible sense. It is our coarse antennae trembling blindly as it traces the form of Origin, tastes the ephemeral glue welding us, yearning after the secret of ineluctable evolution, and wonders what this transformation will mean. In my mind, here was the best kind of art-the kind hoarded by rich and jealous collectors in their locked galleries; hidden from the eyes of the heathen masses, waiting to be shared with the ripe few” MindKindMeanArtEyeFormWaitingSecretWonderRichEvolutionTasteMassArt IsPerfectionTransformationJealousRelativeYearningLockedGalleryTangibleRipeCollectorsTremblingEphemeralGlueCoarseHeathenWelding Author:Laird Barron
“The American government has been harvesting the Middle Eastern grapes of wrath for a generation and not making a secret of it, either. As lousy as the mass media may be, there was enough news about what was transpiring, year after year, to get the gist of what was happening... No American can truthfully say that they could not find out what was going on.” YearsMayHas BeensEnoughGovernmentSecretGenerationsMiddleMediaNewsMassHappeningsEasternWrathGrapesMass MediaAmerican GovernmentGist Author:Nicholas von Hoffman
“If the ruler wants to play the game by himself and follow secret policies, he must present a decoy to the masses. He cannot escape the mass; but he can draw between himself and that mass an invisible curtain, a screen, on which the mass will see projected the mirage of some politics, while the real politics are being made behind it.” IfsWantMadeRealPlayGamesSecretBehindsPolicyMassDrawsScreensInvisibleRulersCurtainsMiragesReal Politics Author:Jacques Ellul