Online report of the Progressive Review. Since 1964, the news while there's still time to do something about it.
October 21, 2014
Pocket paradigms
The system that envelops us becomes normal by its mere mass, its ubiquitous
messages, its sheer noise. Our society faces what William Burroughs
called a biologic crisis -- "like being dead and not knowing
it." The unwitting dead -- universities, newspapers, publishing
houses, institutes, councils, foundations, churches, political
parties -- reach out from the past to rule us with fetid paradigms
from the bloodiest and most ecologically destructive century
of human existence. What should be merely portraits on the wall
of our memories run our lives still, like parents who retain
perpetual hegemony over the souls of their children. - Sam Smith
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