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“You didn’t drink alcohol until you were eighteen, never did drugs, because you had to be more pure, had to have something over the other people. And now your moral authority is doubled, tripled. And you use it any way you need to. That twenty-nine-year-old, for instance, you’ll break up with her after a month because she smokes…you want her to feel like a pariah, like a lower form of life, because that’s what, deep down, you feel she is, what you feel anyone tethered to any addiction is. And now you feel that you have the moral authority to pass judgment on these people.”
“How many of you do you think are so self-obsessed?
All the good ones. Or rather, there’s actually two ways the self-obsession manifests itself: those that turn it inward, and those that turn it outward…My feeling is that if you’re not self-obsessed you’re probably boring.”
“That’s the crucial part, that at any time, someone could be watching me. I know this.
How do you know this?
Because I’m always watching people. When I watch people I too look through them…to glance is not enough…I know everything about people when I look at them for only a moment. I can tell from their clothes, their walks, their hair and hands, I know all the bad things that they’ve done. I know how they’ve failed and how they will fail and how miserable they are.”
“I have no idea how people function without near-constant internal chaos. I’d lose my mind.”
” ‘I don’t want you to feed yourself to me. And I don’t want to devour you. I don’t want to use you as fuel. I don’t want anything from you…not everyone wants to eat each other all the time, not everyone wants to-‘
‘We are all feeding from each other, all the time, every day…That’s what we do, as people.’ “
- Quotes from A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
good:
Ben & Jerry’s: crass corporate PR move, or genuine?
Some might see a crass corporate attempt to latch onto a movement that fits well with the company’s branding. We see a progressive company showing its pre-corporate roots. (via Percolate)
Why don’t these companies set up a job fair at each one of the Occupy sites?
