Doxi stavrou

“Reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that's being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.”
― Terence McKenna, History Ends in Green: Gaia, Psychedelics and the Archaic Revival

“Most of these students are so conditioned to success that they become afraid to take risks. They have been taught from a young age by zealous parents, schools, and institutional authorities what constitutes failure and success. They are socialized to obey. They obsess over grades and seek to please professors, even if what professors teach is fatuous. The point is to get ahead, and getting ahead means deference to authority. Challenging authority is never a career advancer.”
― Chris Hedges, Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle

“Humans are a dangerously insane and very sick species.”
― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“Capitalism is destroying the planet. The two old tricks that dug it out of past crises--War and Shopping--simply will not work.”
― Arundhati Roy, Capitalism: A Ghost Story