Red II

"Those who suffer from historical amnesia, the belief that we are unique in history and have nothing to learn from the past remain children."

     CHRIS HEDGES

(Thoughts on education & culture)

Red

"One of the signs of a dying civilisation is that its language breaks down into exclusive dialects which prevent communication."

     JOHN RALSTON SAUL

(Thoughts on "higher education")

Ewa

""The political and economic forces fuelling such crimes against humanity -whether they are unlawful wars, systematic torture, practiced indifference to chronic starvation, and disease or genocidal acts- are always mediated by educational forces," Giroux says. "Resistance to such acts cannot take place without a degree of knowledge and self reflection. We have to name these acts and transform moral outrage into concrete attempts to prevent such human violations from taking place in the first place."
     But we do not name them. We accept the system handed to us and seek to find a comfortable place within it. We retreat into the narrow, confined ghettos created for us and shut our eyes to the deadly superstructure of the corporate state."

     (Fragment from the book "Empire Of Illusion, The End Of Literacy And The Triumph of Spectacle" by CHRIS HEDGES)

Crash IV

Crash III

"The elite universities disdain honest intellectual inquiry, wich is by its nature distrustful of authority, fiercely independent, and often subversive. They organize learning around minutely specialised disciplines, narrow answers and rigid structures designed to produce such answers. The established corporate hierarchies these institutions service -economic, political, and social- come with clear parameters, such as the primacy of an unfettered free market, and also with a highly specialised vocabulary. This vocabulary, a sign of the specialist and, of course, the elitist, thwarts universal understanding. It destroys the search for the common good. It dices disciplines  faculty, students, and finally experts into tiny, specialised fragments. It allows students and faculty to retreat into these self-imposed fiefdoms and neglect the most pressing moral, political, and cultural questions."

     (Fragment from the book "Empire Of Illusion, The End Of Literacy And The Triumph of Spectacle" by CHRIS HEDGES)

Crash II

Crash

Sheer

"... most elite schools, do only a mediocre job of teaching students to question and think. They focus instead, through the filter of standardised tests, enrichment activities, AP classes, high-priced tutors, swanky private schools, entrance exams and blind deference to authority, on creating hordes of competent system managers. Responsibility for the collapse of the global economy runs in a direct line from the manicured quadrangles and academic halls in these institutions."

     CHRIS HEDGES

Water

Ewa III

Ewa II

Ewa

IV

Almost Away v3

Almost Away v2

Almost Away

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MWNP v6

MWNP v5

MWNP v4

"What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture... In short, Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us."

     NEIL POSTMAN

(Thoughts on media and culture)

"Capitalism originally sought to police play and pleasure, because any attempt to replace work as the central life interest threatened the economic survival of the system. The family, the state, and religion engendered a variety of patterns of moral regulation to control desire and ensure compliance with the system of production. However, as capitalism developed, consumer culture and leisure time expanded. The principles that operated to repress the individual in the workplace and the home were extended to the shopping mall and recreational activity."

     CHRIS ROJEK

(Thoughts on media and consumerism)

MWNP

MWNP v3

MWNP v2

Rat

ZKM v2

ZKM

Dr.

Juancho

Sinking

Ornella

Alex IV

Alex III

Alex II

Alex

Marcelita II

Marcelita

Burnt Out

Knight Guard Alarm

Forgiveness