* Our obedience is the goal of rulers. * Enclosure is their process to gain obedience… when murder quits working. * Commodification is their method to accomplish enclosure. * Ideology is the disguise that conceals and reproduces their power inside our minds. * Epistemology is the constructed "knowledge" of which the disguise is assembled. * Independence is the precondition of effective and active resistance. * Independence of action facilitates independence of mind, and independence of mind facilitates independence of action.
"America was never innocent. We popped our cherry on the boat over and looked back with no regrets. You can't ascribe our fall from grace to any single event or set of circumstances. You can't lose what you lacked at conception.
"Mass-market nostalgia gets you hopped up for a past that never existed. Hagiography sanctifies shuck-and-jive politicians and reinvents their expedient gestures as moments of great moral weight. Our continuing narrative line is blurred past truth and hindsight. Only a reckless verisimilitude can set that line straight."
--James Ellroy, American Tabloid
Ensure a Free and Fair Election (Ban Paperless Voting Machines
"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words."