Anything but taking an objective look as to the systemic material conditions they effect blowing back at them. The only tool they have is a hammer so every problem looks like a nail. Fucking idiots aren’t going to fix anything and demand more funding of fascism and scare CEOs to jerk off security state lobbies.
“This is the thing to bomb. This is the beginning—from “I” to “we”. If you who own the things people must have could understand this, you might preserve yourself. If you could separate causes from results, if you could know that Paine, Marx, Jefferson, Lenin were results, not causes, you might survive. But that you cannot know. For the quality of owning freezes you forever into “I”, and cuts you off forever from the “we”.”
Anything but taking an objective look as to the systemic material conditions they effect blowing back at them. The only tool they have is a hammer so every problem looks like a nail. Fucking idiots aren’t going to fix anything and demand more funding of fascism and scare CEOs to jerk off security state lobbies.
“This is the thing to bomb. This is the beginning—from “I” to “we”. If you who own the things people must have could understand this, you might preserve yourself. If you could separate causes from results, if you could know that Paine, Marx, Jefferson, Lenin were results, not causes, you might survive. But that you cannot know. For the quality of owning freezes you forever into “I”, and cuts you off forever from the “we”.”
John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
Different killer Grapes of Wrath quote