Source: The Politics of Experience (1967), p. 1 of Introduction
Context: Few books today are forgivable. Black on canvas, silence on the screen, an empty white sheet of paper are perhaps feasible. There is little conjunction of truth and social "reality". Around us are pseudo-events, to which we adjust with a false consciousness adapted to see these events as true and real, and even as beautiful. In the society of men the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not. Our social realities are so ugly if seen in the light of exiled truth, and beauty is almost no longer possible if it is not a lie. What is to be done? We who are still half alive, living in the often fibrillating heartland of a senescent capitalism — can we do more than reflect the decay around and within us? Can we do more than sing our sad and bitter songs of disillusion and defeat? The requirement of the present, the failure of the past, is the same: to provide a thoroughly self-conscious and self-critical human account of man.
“Socializing on the internet is to socializing, what reality TV is to reality.”
Aaron Sorkin (1961) American screenwriter, producer, playwright
The Colbert Report http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/360641/september-30-2010/aaron-sorkin at 7m35s. Aired 2010/09/30, retrieved 2010/10/16. <br class="br">said whilst promoting The Social Network in an interview with Stephen Colbert on The Colbert Report in defense of not having a Facebook account.
L. K. Samuels (1951) American writer
“No Truth in Socialism: Why the ‘Crisis of Marxism’ Matters” https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/08/no_truth_in_socialism_why_the_crisis_of_marxism_matters.html American Thinker (Aug. 7, 2021)
Michael Oakeshott (1901–1990) British philosopher
Chap. 2 : Experience and Its Modes
Experience and Its Modes (1933)
“Man keeps looking for a truth to fit his reality. Given our reality, the truth doesn't fit.”
Werner Erhard (1935) Critical Thinker and Author
[Adelaide Bry, 1976, est, 60 Hours that Transform Your Life, New York, Avon, 17]
Attributed
Ilana Mercer South African writer
"Faking History To Make The Black Kids Feel Good" http://dailycaller.com/2017/01/16/faking-history-to-make-the-black-kids-feel-good/ The Daily Caller, January 13, 2017 <br class="br">2010s, 2017
Roberto Mangabeira Unger (1947) Brazilian philosopher and politician
Source: Democracy Realizedː The Progressive Alternative (1998), p. 15
“…the reality of society involves the socialization of certain unrealities.”
Jean Paul Sartre book Saint Genet
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Saint Genet, Actor and Martyr (1952)
“Socialism will become reality when the Fatherland is free.”
Joseph Goebbels (1897–1945) Nazi politician and Propaganda Minister
1930s, Die verfluchten Hakenkreuzler. Etwas zum Nachdenken (1932)
Eugene J. Martin (1938–2005) American artist
Direct Art Magazine, "In Memoriam - Eugene James Martin", Fall-Winter 2006, Vol. 13, p. 87; also http://www.artnet.com/awc/eugene-j-martin.html and http://morayeel.louisiana.edu/ejMARTIN/ejMARTIN-artist.html
“The difference between reality and unreality is that reality has so little to recommend it.”
Allan Sherman (1924–1973) American comedian
A Gift of Laughter http://books.google.com/books?id=sFJBAQAAIAAJ&q=%22The+difference+between+reality+and+unreality+is+that+reality+has+so+little+to+recommend+it%22&pg=PA47#v=onepage (1965), p. 47.
