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Daniel Pinchbeck

"As a German philosopher writing in the aftermath of the Nazi regime, Marcuse understood the sleep inducing force of indoctrination, its power to make people forget and forfeit their own real interests. "The fact that the vast majority of the population accepts, and is made to accept, this society does not render it less irrational and less reprehensible," he wrote. "The distinction between true and false consciousness, real and immediate interest still is meaningful.""

Source : Daniel Pinchbeck (2007). “2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl”, p.67, Penguin

Daniel Pinchbeck

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“What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.”
“I'm trying to photosynthesize like a plant. I'm off eating. Although I am making a lot of banana daiquiries in my room in the blender I've got, with lots of powdered vitamins in them. This tour I'm going to get some Afghani hangings and put them in my room, so that my hotel rooms look like mosques.”
“For me, it seems to help me take the pressure off if I don't pay attention to what other people are telling me.”
“I really like to communicate to my fans. I have a fan club president who I've had for over 15 years.”
“Well, Ramadi is a provincial capital of Anbar province. It's a sprawling city west of Baghdad. It's a poor city, endless cinderblock houses and high-rises almost as far as the eye can see.”
“It's a recipe for disaster.”
“For me, when I grew up playing music, I played music in church and people were shouting and having a big time, and church wasn't something where it was subdued. If you played something, you brought it to church with you.”

Source : "Interview with Alabama's Randy Owen". Interview with Scott Ross, www.cbn.com.
“Our everyday, traditional ideas of reality are delusions which we spend substantial parts of our daily lives shoring up, even at the considerable risk of trying to force facts to fit our definition of reality instead of vice versa. And the most dangerous delusion of all is that there is only one reality.”

Source : "How real is real?: Confusion, disinformation, communication".

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