#mentat

Something must be radically wrong with a culture and a civilisation when its youth begins to desert it. Youth is the natural time for revolt, for experiment, for a generous idealism that is eager for action. Any civilisation which has the wisdom of self-preservation will allow a certain margin of freedom for the expression of this youthful mood. But the plain, unpalatable fact is that in America today that margin of freedom has been reduced to the vanishing point. Rebellious youth is not wanted here. In our environment there is nothing to challenge our young men; there is no flexibility, no colour, no possibility for adventure, no chance to shape events more generously than is permitted under the rules of highly organised looting. All our institutional life combines for the common purpose of blackjacking our youth into the acceptance of the status quo; and not acceptance of it merely, but rather its glorification. ↗

— Harold Edmund Stearns

#adventure #america #civilization #desertion #emigration

There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its breaking point and becomes an actual failure, a mere experimentation. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#art #becomes #beyond #boundaries #breaking

I don't think about the styles. I write whatever comes out and I use whatever kind of instrumentation works for those songs. ↗

— Lenny Kravitz

#comes #i #i write #instrumentation #kind

I never in my wildest imagination dreamed that I would somehow become a sports commentator. ↗

— Joe Rogan

#commentator #dreamed #i #imagination #never

Please be assured that as we move along through the implementation of health insurance reform, making sure that we find efficiencies within the existing system, is foremost on the President's mind. ↗

— Valerie Jarrett

#assured #efficiencies #existing #find #foremost

The horror genre is important because it promotes experimentation in filmmaking. ↗

— Richard King

#experimentation #filmmaking #genre #horror #important

I reverted easily to my wild state, that is experimentation. ↗

— Jack Steinberger

#experimentation #i #state #wild

We only have a Plan A. The acceptance and full implementation of the existing plan, the so-called Plan A, is the best solution for Greece, for the euro zone and also for creditors and holders. ↗

— Evangelos Venizelos

#also #best #creditors #euro #existing

Those who speak of progression but are afraid of change are self-repressed and therefore unable to reach any further than their eyes can already see. ↗

— Criss Jami

#afraid #change #cognition #experimentation #eyes

At first, they'll only dislike what you say, but the more correct you start sounding the more they'll dislike you. ↗

— Criss Jami

#argumentation #avoidance #challenge #challenger #contempt