#narc

Beginning with Santa Claus as a cognitive exercise, a child is encouraged to share the same idea of reality as his peers. Even if that reality is patently invented and ludicrous, belief is encouraged with gifts that support and promote the common cultural lies. The greatest consensus in modern society is our traffic systems. The way a flood of strangers can interact, sharing a path, almost all of them traveling without incident. It only takes one dissenting driver to create anarchy. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#conditioning #dissent #santa #anarchy

There are times when the law jeopardizes those who obey it. ↗

— Kathy Acker

#anarchy

I am waiting for the war to be fought which will make the world safe for anarchy ↗

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#poetry #anarchy

There, did you think to kill me? There's no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill. There's only an idea. Ideas are bulletproof. Farewell. ↗

— Alan Moore

#idea #independence #anarchy

Dead anarchists make martyrs, you know, and keep living for centuries. But absent ones can be forgotten. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#martyrdom #anarchy

Against inebriation – and for drunkenness! Burn down the liquor stores, and replace them with playgrounds! ↗

— CrimethInc.

#inebriation #liquor #play #playgrounds #anarchy

The leather community is largely anarchistic and shares a healthy distrust of power and arrogance. ↗

— Geoff Mains

#bdsm #leather #anarchy

Jelly beans! Millions and billions of purples and yellows and greens and licorice and grape and raspberry and mint and round and smooth and crunchy outside and soft-mealy inside and sugary and bouncing jouncing tumbling clittering clattering skittering fell on the heads and shoulders and hardhats and carapaces of the Timkin works, tinkling on the slidewalk and bouncing away and rolling about underfoot and filling the sky on their way down with all the colors of joy and childhood and holidays, coming down in a steady rain, a solid wash, a torrent of color and sweetness out of the sky from above, and entering a universe of sanity and metronomic order with quite-mad coocoo newness. Jelly beans! ↗

— Harlan Ellison

#candy #grape #jelly-beans #jellybeans #licorice

Sometimes the rules don't work. Sometimes the rules cause the anarchy. ↗

— Susan Beth Pfeffer

#young-adult #anarchy

It can't drag on this way much longer," she said to herself. "One evening he'll whistle under my window, I'll go down by a ladder or a knotted rope and he will carry me away on a motorcycle, off to a den where his subjects will be assembled. He'll say: 'Here is your new Queen.' And... and... it will be terrible!" viii. Their Queen is away and anarchy reigns! The Journal said so! How grand to be Queen, with a red ribbon and a revolver... ↗

— Colette

#anarchy