“
Не от срам,
а никого да не раня,
понякога прикривам бедността си. Понякога
постъпваме така и с истината.
” —Ришард Криницки. (via benikki)January 2012
56 posts
“I’ve often thought there ought to be a manual to hand to little kids, telling them what kind of planet they’re on, why they don’t fall off it, how much time they’ve probably got here, how to avoid poison ivy, and so on. I tried to write one once. It was called Welcome to Earth. But I got stuck on explaining why we don’t fall off the planet. Gravity is just a word. It doesn’t explain anything. If I could get past gravity, I’d tell them how we reproduce, how long we’ve been here, apparently, and a little bit about evolution. I didn’t learn until I was in college about all the other cultures, and I should have learned that in the first grade. A first grader should understand that his or her culture isn’t a rational invention; that there are thousands of other cultures and they all work pretty well; that all cultures function on faith rather than truth; that there are lots of alternatives to our own society. Cultural relativity is defensible and attractive. It’s also a source of hope. It means we don’t have to continue this way if we don’t like it.”
—Kurt Vonnegut (Interview with Playboy, 1973)
December 2011
30 posts
“The West has a plan for (Eastern Europe) - they want to turn large parts of it into a new, easily exploitablepart of the Third World.”
—Noam Chomsky (via noam-chomsky)
“In 2008, the government once again came to the rescue of Wall Street firms presumably too big to fail, with leaders too big to jail.”
—Noam Chomsky - Source (via observers-post)
