Grateful Dead

'The sun bleeds on the horizon till the day, like a fallow deer, is bled and the light is devoured and the lake is dead.' - Ronald Duncan

'When winter whips, old men discover their life is a dream they can't remember.' - Ronald Duncan

'Larks are the dance in which the dancer is still.' - Ronald Duncan

"If people think that nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy." -Kurt Vonnegut

'Larks are the sparks torn from the revolving Earth as it turns like a wheel through the night.' - Ronald Duncan

& dispatched as microfilm into the sidereal void! Loves these quotes you are coming up with, Lard!

'Perhaps our eyes are merely a blank film which is taken from us after our deaths to be developed elsewhere and screened as our life story in some infernal cinema or dispatched as microfilm into the sidereal void.' - Jean Baudrillard

The seeming contradiction of a rising accumulation of wealth and a rising amount of poverty is an interesting phenomenon that it is a very central theme. If human beings are basically good, then why don't the more capable share with the less capable? In the Western industrialized countries they do, to a greater or lesser extent. And it is a never-ending debate. Some people say that if he rich are forced to share with the poor then they are less inclined to be productive (and dominate nature so much). Isn't that a good thing? More animals, less global warming and a whole lot more go along with that. I like to believe that human beings are good but this very thing Wallace talks about leads me to believe that, on average,we are selfish and would destroy ourselves and our planet rather than share with the less fortunate. Human beings are the number one bad-ass animal on the planet, no doubt.

'The self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two multiplicities.' - Gilles Deleuze

'Our mastery over the forces of nature has led to a rapid growth of population, and a vast accumulation of wealth; but these have brought with them such an amount of poverty and crime, and have fostered the growth of so much sordid feeling and so many fierce passions, that it may well be questioned, whether the mental and moral status of our population has not on the average been lowered, and whether the evil has not overbalanced the good.' - Alfred Wallace