A Quote About Individuals
I was reading the thoroughly confusing and wonderful book, The Illuminatus! Trilogy, today when I came across a quote from a fictious book that I found rather nifty. It's not necessarily profound, and could probably fit nicely in a bit of anarchist propaganda, but nevertheless, I dig it.
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"The most thoroughly and relentlessly Damned, banned, excluded, condemned, forbidden, ostracized, ignored, supressed, repressed, robbed, brutalized and defamed of all Damned Things is the individual human being. The social engineers, statisticians, psychologists, sociologists, market researchers, landlords, bureaucrats, captains of industry, bankers, governors, commissars, kings and presidents are perpetually forcing this Damned Thing into carfully prepared blueprints and perpetually irritated that the Damned Thing will not fit into the slot assigned to it. The theologians call it a sinner and try to reform it. The governor calls it a criminal and tries to punish it. The psychotherapist calls it a neurotic and tries to cure it. Still, the Damned Thing will not fit into their slots."
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Nicely put.
Posted by Mr. Eff on 03/21/2006 || link
