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Vile as the atrocities on 9/11 were, one can easily imagine worse. Suppose that al-Qaeda had been supported by an awesome superpower intent on overthrowing the government of the United States. Suppose that the attack had succeeded: al-Qaeda had bombed the White House, killed the president, and installed a vicious military dictatorship, which killed some fifty thousand to one hundred thousand people, brutally tortured seven hundred thousand, set up a major center of terror and subversion that carried out assassinations throughout the world, and helped establish neo-Nazi “National Security States” elsewhere that tortured and murdered with abandon. Suppose further that the dictatorship brought in economic advisers—call them “the Kandahar boys”—who within a few years drove the economy to one of its worst disasters in U.S. history while their proud mentors collected Nobel Prizes and received other accolades. That would have been vastly more horrendous than 9/11.
And as everyone in Chile knows, it is not necessary to imagine, because it in fact did happen, right here: on “the first 9/11,” September 11, 1973. The only change above is to per capita equivalents, an appropriate measure. But the first 9/11 did not change history, for good reasons: the events were too normal.

Noam Chomsky, Hopes and Prospects (via melancholicbeauty)

When, in order to concentrate exclusively on God, we cut ourselves
off from nature, we destroy our own roots. There must be in us a circuit
between heaven and earth, not a one-way flow, draining us of all vitality.
It is not enough that we draw up the Kundalini from the base of the
spine; we must also draw down the divine light through the
Thousand-Petalled Lotus. Equally, it is not enough for our mental health
and spiritual development that we draw down the Divine Light, we must
also draw up the earth forces. Only too often mental health is sacrificed
to spiritual development through ignorance of, or denial of, this fact.
Nature is God made manifest, and we blaspheme Her at our peril.

Dion Fortune. (1987). Applied Magic. p. 35 (via veneficadreams)

The genius of American politics has been to marginalize and isolate people. In fact, one of the main reasons behind the passionate effort to destroy unions is that they are one of the few mechanisms by which ordinary people can get together and compensate for the concentration of capital and power. That’s why the United States has a very violent labor history, with repeated efforts to destroy unions anytime they make any progress.

Noah Chomksy, Imperial Ambitions (via popkiller)

Your head’s like mine, like all our heads; big enough to contain every god and devil there ever was. Big enough to hold the weight of oceans and the turning stars. Whole universes fit in there! But what do we choose to keep in this miraculous cabinet? Little broken things, sad trinkets that we play with over and over. The world turns our key and we play the same little tune again and again and we think that tune’s all we are.

Grant Morrison, The Invisibles, Volume 1: Say You Want a Revolution (via rosecroix)

Action carried out through will and love will dissolve all other actions. Will combined with true pure love shall assuage all else. Follow your hearts like children. This will lead to odd situations that cause evolution and correct action. Many will attempt to stop you from doing this. Acting like children upsets “adults” yet this is what we must do. Sin is created out of complacency and “adult” idealism.

LIBER
000 (via liber000)

The people in the public relations industry aren’t there for the fun of it. They’re doing work. They’re trying to instill the right values. In fact, they have a conception of what democracy ought to be: It ought to be a system in which the specialized class is trained to work in the service of the masters, the people who own the society. The rest of the population ought to be deprived of any form of organization, because organization just causes trouble. They ought to be sitting alone in front of the TV and having drilled into their heads the message, which says, the only value in life is to have more commodities or live like that rich middle class family you’re watching and to have nice values like harmony and Americanism. That’s all there is in life. You may think in your own head that there’s got to be something more in life than this, but since you’re watching the tube alone you assume, I must be crazy …

Media Control – Noam Chomsky (via noam-chomsky)

The bewildered herd is a problem. We’ve got to prevent their roar and trampling. We’ve got to distract them. They should be watching the Superbowl or sitcoms or violent movies. Every once in a while you call on them to chant meaningless slogans like “Support our troops.” You’ve got to keep them pretty scared, because unless they’re properly scared and frightened of all kinds of devils that are going to destroy them from outside or inside or somewhere, they may start to think, which is very dangerous, because they’re not competent to think. Therefore it’s important to distract them and marginalize them.

Noam Chomsky – Propaganda and the Public Mind (via noam-chomsky)

Democratic societies can’t really work like that, because the state can’t control behavior by force. It can to some extent, but it’s much more limited in its capacity to control by force. Therefore, it has to control what you think. And again, democratic theorists have understood this for 50 or 60 years and have been very articulate about it. If the voice of the people is heard, you’d better control what that voice says, meaning you have to control what they think … One of the ways you control what people think is by creating the illusion that there’s a debate going on, but making sure that that debate stays within very narrow margins. Namely, you have to make sure that both sides in the debate accept certain assumptions, and those assumptions turn out to be the propaganda system. As long as everyone accepts the propaganda system, then you I can have a debate.

Noam Chomsky (via noam-chomsky)

‘Bollocks to Yoga..’

Austin Osman Spare –Logomachy of Zos

full quote-

‘bollocks to Yoga: ‘concentration’ on one object is another ‘illusion’. I’ve never managed it for more than a minute; perhaps morons are more successful’

(direct as ever!;-)lol

(via iseesigils)

I don’t totally agree with this, but it’s funny shit.

Anyone who has had any dealings with children knows that they’re curious and creative. They want to explore things and figure out what’s happening. A good bit of schooling is an effort to drive this out of them and to fit them into a mold, make them behave, stop thinking, not cause any trouble. It goes right from kindergarten up … People are supposed to be obedient producers, do what they’re told, and the rest of your life is supposed to be passive consuming. Don’t think about things. Don’t know about things … Just do what you’re told, pay attention to something else and maximize your consumption. That’s the role of the public.

Propaganda and the Public Mind – Noam Chomsky (via noam-chomsky)