Discovery is the ability to be puzzled by simple things. Noam Chomsky

There is always room for Gramsci's "optimism of the will."

If current tendencies persist, the outcome will be disastrous before too long. Large parts of the world will become barely habitable affecting hundreds of millions of people, along with other disasters that we can barely contemplate.

My intellectual achievement was retarded when I went to high school. I sort of sank into a black hole because I had to go to the high-achieving, academic public high school.

We're human beings; we're not robots. And face-to-face contact is something totally different than typing a text message and then forgetting about it.

Suppose that we believe what we are taught. . . . destroying the environment and militarizing outer space are rational policies . . . of institutional lunacy.

As long as each individual is facing the television tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege