‘we become as the machines willingly reaching to another rung on the ladder of material artifice called by some achievement hanging like the carrot strung up over our heads to affect our decisions in ways yet more agreeable with our forsaken authorities holding all of the dealer’s keys in their hands… the cataract of capable acts is slowly opening and closing as the stars sway in a strange motion in overlay of the vegetable mindset…’
~J G Ballard on that which is provided by the aMerikan dReam…
out of Context;
‘Money satisfies our instinct for more, whether for this or that or the other things, but always more pointedly back toward greed. Greed for the shiny and overprotected individual state that we have raised to mythical proportions because we have no other gods around us but us, and we must feel that there is a need to become these things’
“The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation.”
~John Cage; american composer, music theorist and author.