By Jill Greenberg
"The exemplary figures of evil today are not the ordinary consumers who pollute the enviroment and live in a violent word of desintegrating social links, but those who, while fully engaged in creating conditions for such a universal devastation and pollution, buy their way out of their own activity, living in gated communities, eating organic food, taking holidays in wildlife preserves, and so on."Zizek. Violence
"Man is a self-adoring egotist, but an egotist who often feels
an intense distate for the object of his idolatrus worship".
Huxley, Aldous. History of Tension.
“Because our world is not the same as Othello’s world. You can’t make
flivvers without steel – and you can’t make tragedies without social
instability. The world’s stable now. People are happy; they get what they want,
and they never want what they can’t get. They’re are well off; they’re safe;
they’re never ill; they’re not afraid of death; they’re blissfully ignorant of
passion and old age; they’re plagued with no mothers or fathers; they’ve got no
wives, or children, or lovers to feel strongly about; they’re so conditioned
that they practically can’t help behaving as they ought to behave. And if
anything should go wrong, there’s soma…”
“Our Ford himself did a great deal to shift the emphasis
form truth and beauty to comfort and happiness. Mass production demanded the
shift. Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning; truth and beauty
can´t.”