Noses and elephants

“As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much mon- ey will it bring in?     —Alexis de Tocqueville, letter to Ernest de Chabrol, June 9, 1831       

 “An idea is something you have; an ideology is something that has you” ― Morris Berman

 “We live in a collective adrenaline rush, a world of endless promotional/commercial bullshit, that masks a deep systemic emptiness, the spiritual equivalent of asthma.” ― Morris Berman, The Twilight of American Culture

“If you doubt for a moment that there is a “vast, right-wing conspiracy” in this country, you must be living on another planet.” 
― Morris Berman, Dark Ages America: The Final Phase of Empire

 “Mankind today is still making history without having any conscious idea of what it really wants or under what conditions it would stop being unhappy; in fact what it is doing seems to be making itself more unhappy and calling that unhappiness progress.” ― Norman O. Brown, Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History

 “For two thousand years or more man has been subjected to a systematic effort to transform him into an ascetic animal. He remains a pleasure-seeking animal.” ― Norman O. Brown, Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History

 Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone. John Maynard Keynes

In reality, climate change is actually the biggest thing that's going on every single day. Bill McKibben