Kary
28⟡358
Zea Pou
1480
Gregorian 2024-12-31
Khayyamian 976/10/11
Shamsi 1403/10/11
Quotes & Excerpts

No definite answers when thinking, no way in hell there are answers in not thinking.

KHASHAYAR DANESH

[...] I think that the problem actually is more of the fact that people don't really mind that they don't know what they are doing. The open source software, that enables them to do anything without knowing anything about it is only an enabler.

KHASHAYAR DANESH

The spectacle presents itself simultaneously as society itself, as a part of society, and as a means of unification. As a part of society, it is ostensibly the focal point of all vision and all consciousness. But due to the very fact that this sector is separate, it is in reality the domain of delusion and false consciousness: the unification it achieves is nothing but an official language of universal separation.

The doctrine, designed within the intellectual tradition, that human mentality is perfectly plastic and that humans can learn anything is a mistake. Human mentality is highly constrained. It can develop in some directions and not others.

JOHN MAHER & JUDY GROVES

In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, life is presented as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has receded into a representation.

The images detached from every aspect of life merge into a common stream in which the unity of that life can no longer be recovered. Fragmented views of reality regroup themselves into a new unity as a separate pseudo-world that can only be looked at.

Day's Context