The real ugliness lies in the relationship between people who produce the technology and the things they produce, which results in a similar relationship between the people who use the technology and the things they use.

So round and round you go, spinning mental wheels and nowhere finding anyplace to get traction. What the hell...is it?

The most moral activity of all is the creation of space for life to move around.

If your mind is truly, profoundly stuck, then it might be much better off than when it was loaded with ideas

When somebody goes outside the cultural norms, the culture has to protect itself.

That's the classical mind at work, runs fine inside but looks dingy on the surface.

It's normal at this point for the fear-anger syndrome to take over and make you want to hammer on that side plate with a chisel, to pound it off with a sledge if necessary. You think about it, and the more you think about it the more you're inclined to take the whole machine to a high bridge and drop it off. It's just outrageous that a tiny little slot of a screw can defeat you so totally.