Raoul Vaneigem
The Kingdom of God is not just pie in the sky bye and bye—it starts here and now in how we see ourselves and how we treat each other, in what we seek and what we avoid, in what we allow and what we reject, in what we assume and what we deny.
Karl Stern
It would be nursing a great illusion if the man of our times were to think that, having attained a fuller understanding of himself and of the world, he had no further need of religion. There has been a multiplication of systems in which the existence of religion has been interpreted as a psychological phenomenom associated with the childhood of mankind. At its maximum when civilization is beginning, it should gradually fade away, giving place to more positive constructions, from which God (particularly a personal and transcendent God) would be excluded. In reality, for those who can see, the great conflict from which we have escaped will only consolidate in the world the necessity of faith. Having reached a higher degree of self-mastery, the Spirit of Earth will experience an increasingly vital need to adore; out of universal evolution God emerges in our consciousness as greater and more necessary than ever.
Building the Earth, Teilhard de Chardin, 1965
Society is a carnivorous flower.
Scrawled on wall, Paris, May 1968.
Muzak Nation.
Where the Ambience Never Ends.
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