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What seems worst of all, though, is that even the leaders don't recognize this. The greatest danger of the whole mess is that all this Western-American conditioning has been on autopilot for centuries. Nobody is in control of it anymore. It's a mindless goliath wandering the Earth, devouring lives, erasing potential, and following its every whim—regardless of how irrational, obscene, uneducated, enslaving, or backwards its actions are. The American Dream has become a death sentence of drudgery, consumerism, and fatalism: a garage sale where the best of the human spirit is bartered away for comfort, obedience and trinkets. It's unequivocally absurd.


Zoltan Istvan


#transhumanism #death

The American Dream has become a death sentence of drudgery, consumerism, and fatalism: a garage sale where the best of the human spirit is bartered away for comfort, obedience and trinkets. It's unequivocally absurd.


Zoltan Istvan


#absurdism #american-dream #culture #modern-society #society

Like it or not, we are trendsetters. Just as every fashion model ever to strut the runway, we affect the minds of others by what we wear. With usch power it's vital to question ourselves: 'Am I an example of Christ-centeredness? Or have I just gotten comfortable in the "Christian routine" and forgotten why I've chosen to live this way?


Hannah Farver


#influence #modesty #love

Cursed,” he once cried in a fit of rage. His temper has always been as restless and unpredictable as the sea itself. But his words had power behind them and I felt the effects instantly. Too late to take it back.


Jennifer Silverwood


#love-story #modern-myth #paranormal-romance #sea-stories #stay

I had not particularly liked the way in which he wrote about literature in Beginnings, and I was always on my guard if not outright hostile when any tincture of 'deconstruction' or 'postmodernism' was applied to my beloved canon of English writing, but when Edward talked about English literature and quoted from it, he passed the test that I always privately apply: Do you truly love this subject and could you bear to live for one moment if it was obliterated?


Christopher Hitchens


#edward-said #literary-criticism #literature #postmodernism #love

They decided to establish a museum of modern art where works by contemporary artists would be shown. Mother was viewed as a very progressive person, and not everybody liked the paintings she bought.


David Rockefeller


#artists #bought #contemporary #decided #establish

The machines men are so intent on making have carried them very far from the old sweet things.


Sherwood Anderson


#modernity #nostalgia #men

Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.


Logan P. Smith


#cell #chained #every #his #however

Life is too precious to waste any of it regretting the past.


Gordon Savage


#inspirational #life #role-model #inspirational

Women that can work a camera with ease often work men just as effortlessly for both require the same commitment to vanity and manipulation.


Tiffany Madison


#men #model #photography #relationships #vanity