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“Apathetic people sit back and wait for things to get better before they move. Radical people make things get better, by how they move.”
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“Your problem is that you're passive. You wait around for things to change, and they never will.”
― My Year of Rest and Relaxation
― My Year of Rest and Relaxation

“The retreat into sameness鈥攁ssimilation for those who can manage it鈥攊s the most passive and debilitating of responses to political repression, economic insecurity, and a renewed open season on difference.”
― Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence
― Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence

“We haven't been too bad, have we?'
'No, nor enormously good. I suppose that's the trouble--we haven't been very much of anything except us, while a big part of the world was busy being lots of quite awful things.”
― The Illustrated Man
'No, nor enormously good. I suppose that's the trouble--we haven't been very much of anything except us, while a big part of the world was busy being lots of quite awful things.”
― The Illustrated Man

“Time after time, the villain in Hollywood films will turn out to be the 'evil corporation'. Far from undermining capitalist realism, this gestural anti-capitalism actually reinforces it. Take Disney/ Pixar's Wall-E (2008). The film shows an earth so despoiled that human beings are no longer capable of inhabiting it. We're left in no doubt that consumer capitalism and corporations - or rather one mega-corporation, Buy n Large - is responsible for this depredation; and when we see eventually see the human beings in offworld exile, they are infantile and obese, interacting via screen interfaces, carried around in large motorized chairs, and supping indeterminate slop from cups. What we have here is a vision of control and communication much as Jean Baudrillard understood it, in which subjugation no longer takes the form of a subordination to an extrinsic spectacle, but rather invites us to interact and participate 鈥� But this kind of irony feeds rather than challenges capitalist realism. A film like Wall-E exemplifies what Robert Pfaller has called 'interpassivity': the film performs our anti-capitalism for us, allowing us to continue to consume with impunity.”
― Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
― Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

“I鈥檓 a sucker for trends. I don鈥檛 have much in the way of agency. I always want to try whatever鈥檚 popular.”
― Terminal Boredom: Stories
― Terminal Boredom: Stories

“We throw away our consciousness, our ability to be present, just
creating a heartless and disconnected world
that we do not even want to be in.
We want more
because there is more, but
we are too passive to fight for it.”
― Push and Pull
creating a heartless and disconnected world
that we do not even want to be in.
We want more
because there is more, but
we are too passive to fight for it.”
― Push and Pull

“I realize I've sometimes raced over the years like an ice skater fleeing the devil on a frozen river.”
― What Is Left the Daughter
― What Is Left the Daughter
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