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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.

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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
Paranoia is just having the right information.
I am getting so far out one day I won't come back at all.
I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.
Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse
Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
It is to be remembered that all art is magical in origin - music, sculpture, writing, painting - and by magical I mean intended to produce very definite results. Paintings were originally formulae to make what is painted happen. Art is not an end in itself, any more than Einstein's matter-into-energy formulae is an end in itself. Like all formulae, art was originally FUNCTIONAL, intended to make things happen, the way an atom bomb happens from Einstein's formulae.