"You don’t look for no sense when lightnin’ kills a cow, or it comes up a flood. That’s jus’ the way things is. But when a bunch of men take an’ lock you up four years, it ought to have some meaning."
“there ain’t no sin and there ain’t no virtue. There is just stuff people do.”
"Before I knowed it, I was sayin’ out loud, ‘The hell with it! There ain’t no sin and there ain’t no virtue. There’s just stuff people do. It’s all part of the same thing.’… I says, ‘What’s this call, this sperit?’ An’ I says, ‘It’s love. I love people so much I’m fit to bust, sometimes.’… I figgered, ‘Why do we got to hang it on God or Jesus? Maybe,’ I figgered, ‘maybe it’s all men an’ all women we love; maybe that’s the Holy Sperit-the human sperit-the whole shebang. Maybe all men got one big soul ever’body’s a part of.’ Now I sat there thinkin’ it, an’ all of a suddent-I knew it. I knew it so deep down that it was true, and I still know it."
Week 11
Aslıhan : The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Hazal : Creators: From Chaucer and Durer to Picasso and Disney by Paul Bede Johnson
"Why was that old fellow such a marvelous propaganda technician? Because he had so many insane, excruciating things to get excited about. You’ve got to be hurt and upset; otherwise you can’t think of the really good, penetrating X-rayish phrases.."
aldous huxley-brave new world
"Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak."
John Berger - Ways of Seeing
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Ending is better than mending. The more stitches, the less riches.
A government slogan encouraging people to throw away old possessions and buy new ones, thus theoretically keeping the global economy strong.
"brave new world-aldous huxley
"And that,” put in the Director sententiously, “that is the secret of happiness and virtue— liking what you’ve got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny."
aldous huxley-brave new world
"Imagine the folly of allowing people to play elaborate games which do nothing whatever to increase consumption. It’s madness. Nowadays the Controllers won’t approve of any new game unless it can be shown that it requires at least as much apparatus as the most complicated of existing games."
a brave new world- aldous huxley
