This Is The Beginning Of The Healing From The Addiction – The Addiction To Oil, The Addiction To Consumerism,

Open mouth, already big mistake. - Zen Saying

Comprehension declines as the number of hyperlinks in a document increases. - Rolf Dobelli https://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/apr/12/news-is-bad-rolf-dobelli

Illustration by John Holcroft

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” - Anais Nin

“We have to explore to survive. As soon as we have traces of life, if you don’t diversify your environment, if as a little bacteria you don’t jump to the next rock, you don’t give yourself the best chance to survive. Staying put means death. It is true physically, spiritually and intellectually.” - Astrobiologist Nathalie Cabrol, The SETI Institute

Photography by Linden Gledhill 

"If you don't become the ocean, you will be seasick every day." - Leonard Cohen

“The 2008 bank bailout cost more than has been spent on NASA since it was started in 1959.” - Chris Impey

Collage by Felipe Posada.

“From out there on the moon, politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out, and say - Look at that, you son of bitch.” - Astronaut Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14

NASA photo of Mitchell getting lost on the moon, as we learned that our perceptions change out there!

Teenagers have been deformed by social media. There's a sense they fit, but not as agents, not as full human beings who are making a future for themselves. They fit as human fodder that has been sucked into a machine and molded to what the machine wants out of them, which is their attention. — Jonathan Haidt from Our Kids Are the Least Generation Flourishing We Know Of

Image by Bill Watterson

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-jonathan-haidt.html

Bill Moyers Question: Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt is a tough book. It’s not Dispatches from Disneyworld. It paints some very stark portraits of poverty, despair, destructive behaviour. What makes you think people want to read that sort of thing these days?

Chris Hedges Answer: That’s not a question that Joe Sacco and I ever asked. It is absolutely imperative that we begin to understand what unfettered, unregulated capitalism does – the violence of that system.

Painting by Paco Pomet in Banksy’s Dismaland.

"Oh Shut Up, You Silly Man [sic]!" - Oscar Brown 

Illustration by Waldemar Kazak.

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