“In the face of this, I have come to believe that the role of cultural workers like myself—in education, publishing, the arts, even entertainment—is to generate and maintain an arena where alternative viewpoints may at least be articulated. Not in the name of some abstraction called Freedom, a word prostituted like so many others in the service of Power. Rather—just as certain biologists argue for the maintenance of species diversity among plants in order to preseve them for potential use by future generations—we should battle on the side of the obscure, the small, the powerless, the marginalized in order to maintain bio-diversity of memes, of ideas and aesthetic and imaginary realms.”
@This Is Yesterday
Intelligence must become self-conscious, realise its own power, and, on a global scale, transcending functions that are no longer appropriate, dare to exercise it. History will not overthrow national governments; it will outflank them. The cultural revolt is the necessary underpinning, the passionate substructure of a new order of things. — Alexander Trocchi
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