There's a hollowness to civilized life. It doesn't appeal to people, and some people react with extreme violence.

Never before have people been so infantalized, made so dependant on the machine for everything; as the earth rapidly approaches its extinction due to technology, our souls are shrunk and flattened by its pervasive rule. Any sense of wholeness and freedom can only return by the undoing of the massive division of labour at the heart of technological progress. This is the liberatory project in all its depth.

If we once, and for so long, lived in balance with nature and each other, we should be able to do so again.

We don't need more stupid ideas.

The more the society becomes a technological society, the less it has to hold itself together.

Everyone can feel the nothingness, the void, just beneath the surface of everyday routines and securities.

The largely hidden key to the symbolic world is time; indeed it is at the origin of human symbolic activity. Time thus occasions the first alienation, the route away from aboriginal richness and wholeness.