We get off track. Capitalism takes us off track. You get off the "real" and get on the "wheel." The "wheel" becomes the winning and losing, the succeeding and failing, the "I will achieve." All that stuff becomes so preoccupying, particularly if you're born with low self-esteem, or no sense of yourself, or even if you're just born in the consumer culture. It's very powerful.
Eve EnslerI think one of the problems with the capitalist mainstream is this: no matter what you create to respond or resist it they will buy it.
Eve EnslerWhy don't we bring everyone up to be caring and compassionate, to believe that we are connected with everyone and everything around us?
Eve EnslerDance is holy, sexual, and it's a way of being very powerful and a little dangerous without being violent.
Eve Ensler