All Writers Are Propagandists.

A Very Poor Kid Came Up To Me After A Talk And Said 'i Want To Go Blow Up A Factory.' I Asked How Old He Was And He Said 17. I Said 'have You Ever Had Sex?' He Said 'no.' I Said 'just Remember If You Get Caught You Aren't Going To Have Sex For Twenty Years At Least.' That's Not Saying That One Person Having Sex Is Worth The Salmon. I'm Not Saying It's A Reason Not To Act, I'm Saying Don't Be Stupid.

To Reverse The Effects Of Civilization Would Destroy The Dreams Of A Lot Of People. There's No Way Around It. We Can Talk All We Want About Sustainability, But There's A Sense In Which It Doesn't Matter That These People's Dreams Are Based On, Embedded In, Intertwined With, And Formed By An Inherently Destructive Economic And Social System. Their Dreams Are Still Their Dreams. What Right Do I -- Or Does Anyone Else -- Have To Destroy Them. At The Same Time, What Right Do They Have To Destroy The World?

I Think It's Very Important For Us To Start To Build A Culture Of Resistance, Because What We're Doing Isn't Working, Clearly.

You Can Rarely Prove Something To Someone Who Does Not Want To See It Proven, And Even More To The Point, You Can Almost Never Prove Something To Someone Who Has Financial Or Ideological Reasons To Not See It Proven.

I No Longer See Descartes' Statement As Arbitrary. It Is Representative Of Our Culture's Narcissism. This Narcissism Leads To A Disturbing Disrespect For Direct Experience And A Negation Of The Body.