
“Politics is pointless if it does nothing to enhance the beauty of our lives.”
Source: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times
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2000s, Promises to Keep (2008)
“Politics is pointless if it does nothing to enhance the beauty of our lives.”
Source: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times
Cory Doctorow on the Open Rights Group (Time: 3:25) https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Cory_Doctorow_on_the_Open_Rights_Group.webm
Context: As someone once said, "Just because you're not interested in politics does not mean that politics won't be interested in you." And staying away from politics either because you think tech will make laws irrelevant or because there's no good way to influence laws just opens the field for people who don't cherish either of those illusions to make things very bad indeed.
Interview with William Warren Bartley, cited in [Bartley, William Warren, w:William Warren Bartley, Werner Erhard: the Transformation of a Man: the Founding of est, Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., 1978, New York, 302, 0-517-53502-5]
Creation seminars (2003-2005), Lies in the textbooks
“Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.”
Variant: Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living out fears.