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Ništa se nije dogodilo u svetu dok se nije prvo dogodilo u glavama.


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Demokratski izborni procesi, u odsustvu demokratske kulture i jake srednje klase, neizbežno doprinose jačanju nedemokratskih snaga.


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Each, according to his own inclination follows his own purpose, often in opposition to others; yet each individual and people, as if following some guiding thread, go toward a natural but to each of them unknown goal; all work toward furthering it, even if they would set little store by it if they did know it.


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Unless the worker's share of GDP reverses its downward trend, and capital's share peaks, then populists worldwide will reject establishment parties in almost every future election.


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Before it was called slack we just called it IRC with a webinterface. Re-inventing and centralising the wheel, a recipe for great success.


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Anarchists are simply people who believe human beings are capable of behaving in a reasonable fashion without having to be forced to. It is really a very simple notion. But it’s one that the rich and powerful have always found extremely dangerous.


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I'm always amazed that progressive young millennials will picket a grocery chain for not buying fair-trade coffee but will go home and do drugs that are brought to them by the killers, torturers, and sadists of the cartels.


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Economics is notorious for its ability/attempts to seem like hard science when, in reality, it's far closer to a social science.


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Stallman's Law: While corporations dominate society and write the laws, each advance or change in technology is an opening for them to further restrict or mistreat its users.


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Remember, perhaps the most important commodity in politics is attention: mass media failed us this election by focusing on trivia while not doing enough to follow and correctly report huge stories. Our attention was diluted into trivia and gossip and unjustified mass hacks that were actually political sabotage, not whistleblowing, and in some cases misinformation.


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We are all sufferers from history, but the paranoid is a double sufferer, since he is afflicted not only by the real world, with the rest of us, but by his fantasies as well.


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How to MLM:

  • Agree to everything
  • Sound super excited
  • Get free food
  • When signups start, say you need to get the money togeather and invite someone
  • Invite a friend
  • Both be super excited
  • Say you want them to take your friend to dinner too to convince him
  • Get another free dinner
  • Convince your friend to invite another friend
  • Final free dinner before getting the hell out
  • You pyramid schemed the pyramid scheme

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Brandolini’s law (also known as the Bullshit Asymmetry Principle): the amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it.


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If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember.