“Personal deconditioning IS pro-democracy work because authoritarianism thrives when people are disconnected from their inner authority and follow external programming without question. I also march and protest. The resistance is internal and external.”
“We adore ourselves, even in our own self-loathing, which is an ability unique to us among all creatures. We relish our power to subdue, to arrange, calculate, store up and tear down. But perhaps the most distinctive trait we possess is our ability to blame. Human history reads like a very long petition for divorce that is never adjudicated, is only ever endlessly litigated.
We don’t listen. We just scream and scream and cling to people whose screaming sounds like ours, like tumor cells binding together, stupidly killing the host. We metastasize every time we breathe.”
“Productivity and discipline speaks to human shame and human degradation. Creativity and commitment speaks to the human spirit and human dignity. The former preserves enslavement. The latter inspires freedom.”
