“They Live”, the Weird Movie With a Powerful Message
"Our impulses are being redirected. We are living in an artificially
induced state of consciousness that resembles sleep. (...) The poor and
the underclass are growing. Racial justice and human rights are
nonexistent. They have created a repressive society, and we are their
unwitting accomplices. Their intention to rule rests with the
annihilation of consciousness. We have been lulled into a trance. They
have made us indifferent to ourselves, to others. We are focused only on
our own gain. Please understand. They are safe as long as they are not
discovered. That is their primary method of survival. Keep us asleep,
keep us selfish, keep us sedated."
"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."
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