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Movies, Music, Baseball, Drums, Philosophy, Politics, Justice, Swimming, Reading, Writing, NOT Counting, Saving worlds, (Re- + De-)Educating, Chill-------------------------------------------------------------- ''There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need, but not for man's greed.'' - Mohandas K. Gandhi ''Cutting the space budget really restores my faith in humanity. It eliminates dreams, goals, and ideals and lets us get straight to the business of hate, debauchery, and self-annihilation...'' - Johnny Hart RANDOM ROUSSEAU RANTS ''I know that [civilized men] do nothing but boast incessantly of the peace and repose they enjoy in their chains.... But when I see [barbarous man] sacrifice pleasures, repose, wealth, power, and life itself for the preservation of this sole good which is so disdained by those who have lost it; when I see animals born free and despising captivity break their heads against the bars of their prison; when I see multitudes of entirely naked savages scorn European voluptuousness and endure hunger, fire, the sword, and death to preserve only their independence, I feel it does not behoove slaves to reason about freedom.'' - Jean-Jacques Rousseau ''In reality, the difference is, that the savage lives within himself while social man lives outside himself and can only live in the opinion of others, so that he seems to receive the feeling of his own existence only from the judgement of others concerning him. It is not to my present purpose to insist on the indifference to good and evil which arises from this disposition, in spite of our many fine works on morality, or to show how, everything being reduced to appearances, there is but art and mummery in even honour, friendship, virtue, and often vice itself, of which we at length learn the secret of boasting; to show, in short, how abject we are, and never daring to ask ourselves in the midst of so much philosophy, benevolence, politeness, and of such sublime codes of morality, we have nothing to show for ourselves but a frivolous and deceitful appearance, honour without virtue, reason without wisdom, and pleasure without happiness.'' - Jean-Jacques Rousseau ''Tranquility is found also in dungeons; but is that enough to make them desirable places to live in? To say that a man gives himself gratuitously, is to say what is absurd and inconceivable; such an act is null and illegitimate, from the mere fact that he who does it is out of his mind. To say the same of a whole people is to suppose a people of madmen; and madness creates no right. Even if each man could alienate himself, he could not alienate his children: they are born men and free; their liberty belongs to them, and no one but they has the right to dispose of it. Before they come to years of judgment, the father can, in their name, lay down conditions for their preservation and well-being, but he cannot give them irrevocably and without conditions: such a gift is contrary to the ends of nature, and exceeds the rights of paternity. It would therefore be necessary, in order to legitimize an arbitrary government, that in every generation the people should be in a position to accept or reject it; but, were this so, the government would be no longer arbitrary. To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. For him who renounces everything no indemnity is possible. Such a renunciation is incompatible with man's nature; to remove all liberty from his will is to remove all morality from his acts. Finally, it is an empty and contradictory convention that sets up, on the one side, absolute authority, and, on the other, unlimited obedience.'' - Jean-Jacques Rousseau ; I, Ch. 4 ''Seeing without feeling is not knowledge.'' - Jean-Jacques Rousseau ----------------Childhood is the sleep of reason.'' - Jean-Jacques Rousseau ''I feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting, as it were, into the system of beings, in identifying myself with the whole of nature.'' - Jean-Jacques Rousseau ''Living is not breathing but doing.'' - Jean-Jacques Rousseau ''Watch a cat when it enters a room for the first time. It searches and smells about, it is not quiet for a moment, it trusts nothing until it has examined and made acquaintance with everything.'' - Jean-Jacques Rousseau ''When the people shall have nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich.'' - Jean-Jacques Rousseau ---------------------------------------------

THE CORPORATION, Zeitgeist, Spin, Loose Change 9/11, Bastards of the Party, V for Vendetta, Free Rainer, Waking Life, (Ani-)Matrix, Blueberry, Butterfly Effect, Lock, Stock + Two Smokin Barrels, Snatch, Requiem for a Dream, Pi, Thursday, Reservoir Dogs, The Big Lebowski, Stranger Than Fiction; Undercover Brother, Starsky and Hutch, Dogma, Unterwegs in die Nächste Dimension, Bang Boom Bang, Lammbock, Das Weiße Rauschen, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hustle + Flow, Dead Man, Natural Born Killers, K-PAX, Léon, Pulp Fiction, The Blair Witch Project, Lost in Translation, Dances With Wolves, The Money Pit, Major League, The Lord of the Ring Trilogy, Finding Nemo, The Awful Truth, V for Vendatta, Stranger Than Fiction, Training Day, The Last Samurai, 2001, Clockwork Orange, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, They Live, Ice Age, The Incredibles, Toy Story 1 + 2, A Bugs Life, Supersize Me, Braveheart, Apocalypse Now - Redux, Full Metal Jacket, Platoon, Good Morning Vietnam, Ghostbusters 1 + 2, Pirates of the Caribbean I, Beverly Hills Cop II, Constantine, Donny Darko, The Thin Red Line, Good Fellas, Ed Wood, Fever Pitch, Wasabi, Old Boy...---------------------------------------- ''Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts.'' - Daniel Patrick Moynahan „It's difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.'' - Al Gore ''The greatest TRIUMPHS OF PROPAGANDA have been accomplished NOT BY DOING something, BUT BY REFRAINING from doing. Great IS TRUTH, but EVEN GREATER from a practical point of view IS SILENCE ABOUT TRUTH. By SIMPLY NOT MENTIONING CERTAIN SUBJECTS, SUCH FACTS OR ARGUMENTS as the local political bosses REGARD AS UNDESIRABLE, totalitarian propagandists HAVE INFLUENCED OPINION MUCH MORE EFFECTIVELY than they could have done by the most eloquent denunciations, the MOST compelling of logical rebuttals.'' - Aldous Huxley, 1946 Foreword Brave New World

FUNK, Hip Hop, Reggae + DUB, Soul, R+B, Drum+Bass, Jazz, Swing, Classic--------------------- „We are apt to SHUT OUR EYES against a PAINFUL TRUTH, and LISTEN to the song of that siren till she TRANSFORMS US into BEASTS. Is this the part of WISE men, engaged in a great and arduous STRUGGLE for LIBERTY ? Are we disposed to be of the number of those who, having eyes, SEE NOT, and, having ears, HEAR NOT, the things which so nearly concern THEIR temporal salvation? For my part, WHATEVER anguish of spirit IT MAY COST, I AM WILLING TO KNOW THE WHOLE TRUTH; to KNOW the WORST, and to PROVIDE for it.'' - Patrick Henry

Mostly Non-Fiction: We've Had a Hundred Years of Psychotherapy--And the World's Getting Worse by James Hillman and Michael Ventura (Paperback - May 14, 1993); The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order by Michel Chossudovsky (Paperback - Sep 10, 2003); Ismael - Daniel Quinn; Machtwahn - Wie eine mittelmäßige Führungselite uns zugrunde richtet - Albrecht Müller; Der Deutschland Clan - Jürgen Roth; Lone-Wolf-Series (Dever+Chalk); María Sabina and her Mazatec Mushroom Velada (Ethno-mycological studies) by María Sabina (Paperback - 1974); Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock 'N' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood by Peter Biskind (Paperback - April 4, 1999); Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent Film by Peter Biskind (Paperback - Dec 21, 2004); Story - Robert McKee... Der Deutschland Clan (Jürgen Roth)-------------------------------------------------- PAST/PASSED PRESIDENT'S PRIVATE PARLOR -- PLEASE PERCEIVE PASSIONATELY! ''Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.'' - John F. Kennedy. ''When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people there is liberty.'' - Thomas Jefferson -------------------------''The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants!'' - Thomas Jefferson „You can fool all of the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time!" - Abraham Lincoln --------------------------------------------- ''To ACHIEVE world government, IT IS necessary TO REMOVE from the minds of men THEIR INDIVIDUALISM, LOYALTY TO FAMILY TRADITION, NATIONALISM, and RELIGIOUS dogmas...If it cannot be done gently, it may have to be done...violently.'' - G. Brock Chisholm, The Re-Establishment of Peacetime Society -----------------------------------------------''A handful of people CONTROL THE WORLD'S MEDIA. At this time there are only about six such people, soon there will be ONLY four left - and IT WILL INCLUDE EVERYTHING THEN: ALL newspapers, ALL magazines, ALL movies, ALL television, ALL music. There was once a time when the media represented DIFFERENT OPINIONS and VIEWS. TODAY THERE IS ONLY ONE OPINION, which it takes four or five days to form - and then it's EVERYONE'S OPINION.'' - Mike Nichols, Nation und Europa, July/Aug 99 p.16