- No one wants to admit we’re addicted to music.That’s just not possible.No one is addicted to music and television and radio.we just need more of it. More channels, a larger screen,more volume.We can’t bear to be without it,but no, nobody’s addicted.
George Orwell got it backwards. Big Brother isn’t watching. He’s singing and dancing.He’s pulling rabbits out of a hat.Big Broters is busy holding ypur attention every moment you’re awake.It’s worse then being watched.With the world always filling you,no one has to worry about what’s in your mind.With everyone’s imagination atrophied,noone will ever be a threat to the world.
- Experts in Ancient Greek culture say that people back then didn’t see their thoughts as belonging to them.When ancient Greeks had a thought,it occurred to them as a god or godess giving an order.Apollo was telling them to be brave. Atena was telling them to fall in love.
Now people hear a commercial for sour cream chips and rush out to buy.but now they call this free will.
Here in your mind you have complete privacy. Here there's no difference between what is and what could be.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK, Choke
It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK, Fight Club
The first step — especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money — the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK, online lecture, Dec. 5, 2004
