Monthly Archives: April 2007

Viva What Revolution?

30 April 2007 – 3:25 pm

This is why I hate the world: revolution as entertainment for the rich with corporate sponsorship:
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Cycling Upward

28 April 2007 – 7:44 pm

Noam Chomsky, speaking on April 17th’s Democracy Now! when asked about ‘hope for the future’:
I have a slightly more hopeful sense than Howard [Zinn] at least expressed, I suspect he agrees. It’s true that the country, that in terms of institutional structure – government for the wealthy and so on – there hasn’t been much [...]

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I am that thought

25 April 2007 – 5:27 pm

From Traveling in Mark Twain (Richard Bridgman, 1987):
Having long pondered, without resolution, the meaning of what he had observed in his travels through the world, Twain told his old friend and clergyman Joe Twichell, in a letter of July 28, 1904, that at least “a part of each day—or night” the world vanished absolutely for [...]

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A collection of curiosities of the past

7 April 2007 – 8:27 pm

William Morris, writing in 1894, and published July 16th of that year in Justice:
To sum up then, the study of history and the love and practice of art forced me into a hatred of the civilization which, if things were to stop as they are, would turn history into inconsequent nonsense, and make art a [...]

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