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Jan 29
    And here is the place to say that the mass of the populations, the average individual, were, was, infinitely better, more sane, than those who ruled them: most would have been appalled at what was being done by ‘their’ representatives. It is safe to say that if even a part of what was being kept from them had came to their notice, there would have been mass risings across the globe, massacres of the rulers, riots … unfortunately, when peoples are helpless, betrayed, lied to, they possess no weapons but the (useless) ones of rioting, looting, mass murder, invective. Doris Lessing, “Re: Colonised Planet 5, Shikasta

Jan 28
Nearly all political people were incapable of thinking in terms of interaction, of cross-influences, of the various sects and ‘parties’ forming together a whole, wholes — let alone of groups of nations making up a whole. No, in entering the state of mind where ‘politics’ was ruler, it was always to enter a crippling partiality, a condition of being blinded by the ‘correctness’ of a certain viewpoint. And when one of these sects or ‘parties’ got power, they nearly always behaved as if their viewpoint could be the only right one. Doris Lessing, “Re: Colonised Planet 5, Shikasta

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Alan Martin, Ashley Wood, Rufus Dayglo, “Tank Girl: The Gifting”

Alan Martin, Ashley Wood, Rufus Dayglo, “Tank Girl: The Gifting


Nov 9
    The same happened to Einstein’s theory which was widely used in the United States as an excuse for social inequality. ‘Everything is relative, as Einstein says’, became the chant. Not so. The most interesting thing that Einstein sayd is that some things, notably the speed of light, are not relative. Ian Stewart, quoted from “Chaos: A Graphic Guide” by Ziauddin Sardar & Iwona Abrams

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Oct 11
    Школу жизни он прошёл в шестнадцать лет — сперва у Достоевского, потом у проституток Нового Орлеана. Ричард Бротиган, «Рыбалка в Америке»

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