January 27, 2012
January 25, 2012
“ According to my (unscientific) data collection efforts, the average parking space occupies (conservatively) 90 square feet (6 feet wide by 15 feet long). So you’d need to repurpose 484 on-street spots to gain an acre of farmland – or 288,464 spots to get 596 acres.
January 20, 2012
November 29, 2011
“ [Palantir]’s grand, patriotic mission is to ‘protect the Shire.’
November 2, 2011
October 31, 2011
October 30, 2011
October 27, 2011
“ The protesters should fall in love with hard and patient work – they are the beginning, not the end. Their basic message is: the taboo is broken; we do not live in the best possible world; we are allowed, obliged even, to think about alternatives.
October 21, 2011
“ Rather than killing the disease, we strengthen the body. People are confused and they say “What’s the disease, how do we kill it?” But it’s about, “How do we build an economy and promote commerce that is consonant with human culture rather than destructive of it?
Douglas Rushkoff, Occupy Wall Street and Reclaiming the Internet from Corporations
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October 18, 2011
“ The Occupy movement — like so many movements around the world now — is using general assemblies as its form of protest and process. Its members are not facing the authorities, but each other, coming to know themselves, trying to give rise to the democracy they desire on a small scale rather than merely railing against its absence on a large scale.
“ The important thing is not just to make demands upon our rulers, but to build up the power to realize our demands ourselves. If we do this effectively, the powerful will have to take our demands seriously, if only in order to try to keep our attention and allegiance. We attain leverage by developing our own strength.
October 17, 2011
“ One of the things that revolutionaries have learned over the course of the 20th century is that the idea of the ends justifying the means is deeply problematic. You can’t create a just society through violence, or freedom through a tight revolutionary cadre. You can’t establish a big state and hope it will go away. The means and ends have to be the same.
August 23, 2011
“ When I bought these parcels at the New York City auction, the description of them that always excited me the most was ‘inaccessible.’ What I basically wanted to do was designate spaces that wouldn’t be seen and certainly not occupied. Buying them was my own take on the strangeness of existing property demarcation lines.
