We've bought into the idea that education is about training and "success," defined monetarily, rather than learning to think critically and challenge. We should not forget that the true purpose of education is to make minds, not careers. A culture that does not grasp the vital interplay between morality and power, which mistakes management techniques for wisdom, which fails to understand that the measure of a civilization is its compassion, not its speed or ability to consume, condemns itself to death.
Chris HedgesIt is one of the great ironies of corporate control that the corporate state needs the abilities of intellectuals to maintain power, yet outside of this role it refuses to permit intellectuals to think or function independently.
Chris HedgesOne needs solitude and quiet to think. The cacophony of modern culture is designed to make that impossible.
Chris HedgesBecoming vegan is the most important and direct change we can immediately make to save the planet and its species.
Chris Hedges