“The success of most films in Hollywood these days, I think, is down to the fact [that] they’re comforting, they tie things into nice little bows, give you answers–even if the answers are stupid.” -Terry Gilliam
Monthly Archives: January 2020
“Musicians make music because they feel the need to make music and they are expressing their feelings through music…”
“…But at the end of the process, what really creates the sounds that comes out of the instruments is the movement that they make.”
-Uri Vardi (from the video)
What if we’re being conditioned in such a way that we can no longer read anything in depth? What if the way we read influences the way we think?
“In the world of 2001, people have become so machinelike that the most human character turns out to be a machine. That’s the essence of Kubrick’s dark prophecy: as we come to rely on computers to mediate our understanding of the world, it is our own intelligence that flattens into artificial intelligence.” (from the article)
Click here to read Nicholas Carr’s insightful article in the Atlantic on how technology has changed and continues to change the way we live and think.
Charles Eisenstein on Sacred Economics
Charles Eisenstein‘s seminal work, Sacred Economics, played a pivotal role in inspiring both Slowing Down to Run Faster and The Mass Psychology of Fittism. In the following video by Ian McKenzie, Charles talks about the role that a debt-based money economy has played in fundamentally promoting political oppression, poverty, inequality, war, environmental destruction, anomie, and the severing of deep social ties.