Pop is the most seductive force the world has ever known; it has more – and more devoted – adherents than all religions put together. It is more deeply loved, more trusted, and a more constant companion in our joys and sorrows than any other art form.
Perry names his avatar of white, middle-class, heterosexual males “Default Man,” observing how, “with their colorful textile phalluses hanging around their necks,” Default Men run the world, taking up 77 percent of seats in the U.K. government, and making up 92 percent of executive directors of British companies.
Men are “conditioned to be something that is no longer needed,” primed for conflict and dominance and aggression in societies that are evolving to prize tolerance and emotional intelligence instead.
Your right to swing your fist ends where my nose begins.
Here are eight body-language hacks that can be tricky to master but will pay off forever once you do:
Look here Vita — throw over your man, and we’ll go to Hampton Court and dine on the river together and walk in the garden in the moonlight and come home late and have a bottle of wine and get tipsy, and I’ll tell you all the things I have in my head, millions, myriads — They won’t stir by day, only by dark on the river. Think of that. Throw over your man, I say, and come.
The Letters of Virginia Woolf: Change of Perspective, 1923-28 vol. 3.
pentheraphobia - n. fear of one’s mother-in-law
School is learning things you don't want to know, surrounded by people you wish you didn't know, while working toward a future you don't know will ever come.
Never memorise what you can look up in a book.
I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.
Life is pain, anyone who says differently is selling something.
Susan Sontag lists her 10 rules for raising a child:
- News organizations are a public trust with the ability to inform and influence the public conversation.
- I know. That’s why I bought one.
Newsroom S01E03
Don’t be deceived when they tell you things are better now. Even if there’s no poverty to be seen because the poverty’s been hidden. Even if you ever got more wages and could afford to buy more of these new and useless goods which industries foist on you and even if it seems to you that you never had so much, that is only the slogan of those who still have much more than you. Don’t be taken in when they paternally pat you on the shoulder and say that there’s no inequality worth speaking of and no more reason to fight because if you believe them they will be completely in charge in their marble homes and granite banks from which they rob the people of the world under the pretence of bringing them culture. Watch out, for as soon as it pleases them they’ll send you out to protect their gold in wars whose weapons, rapidly developed by servile scientists, will become more and more deadly until they can with a flick of the finger tear a million of you to pieces.
Prison is a very expensive way of making bad men worse.
I gotta adhere to the rules of getting kids to listen, which are:
The name, the label, covers the poverty of your inner being; you are petty, shallow, and through identification you hope to escape from your own emptiness. So the name, the country, the idea, become all-important, and for that you are willing to die and to kill.
Negde sam pročitao pitanje i odgovor iz intervjua Vitolda Gombroviča pred kraj njegovog života. – Kakvi su vam planovi u budućnosti? – Grob!
Frugality is not about depriving yourself of what you want. It’s about figuring out what you want and then figuring out how you can achieve that.
Promene ne treba očekivati od drugih, niti ih prizivati pred drugima. Sam čovek treba biti promena.