"Its basically [about] having to make a decision whether to do nothing or try to engage with it in some way, knowing that its flawed. Its convenient to project that back on to someone personally and say theyre a hypocrite. Its a lot easier to do that than actually do anything else. And yeah, that stresses me out, because I am a hypocrite. As we all are."
Thomas Edward Yorke is an English musician who is the singer and main songwriter of the rock band Radiohead. He plays guitar, bass, keyboards and other instruments, and is noted for his falsetto. Rolling Stone described Yorke as one of the greatest and most influential singers of his generation.
"Were at a time when we are being presented with undeniable changes in the global climate and fundamental issues that affect every single one of us, and its the time were listening to the most hokey shite on the radio and watching vacuous bullshit celebrities being vacuous bullshit celebrities and desperately trying to forget about everything. Which is fine, you know, but personally speaking, I cant do that." source"
"My big problem with corporate structure is this bizarre sense of loyalty youre supposed to feel -- towards what is basically a virus. It grows or dies, like any virus. And you use it for your own selfish ends." - source"
"Theres nothing more boring than a rocknroll star, someone who has been on the road for 10 years, expecting attention wherever he goes, drinking himself stupid, who is obnoxious, incoherent, uncreative and has a massive ego. Theres nothing more pointless." - source"
"I havent done enough. I dont have solar panels on my house yet. I havent sorted out the heating, my cars not a Prius, I f---ing fly all the time for my job and I hate it but at the moment I havent really got a choice, you know, and all these things. The job Im in is a job that wastes energy left, right and centre. Its madness." source"
"Its like a supply and demand thing. Its like Well, this is what they want me to do, this is what they want to hear. So Ill do more of this, cuz this is great... and they love me. Suddenly people start giving you money as well. So then youve got money and you get used to this lifestyle. And you dont wanna take any risks cause theyve got you by the balls, and youve got all these little things that youve bought, or youre attached to. And you start spending all this money... And thats how they get ya!" - source"
"The sad thing is, if an issue is laughed at and patronised by mainstream media, then its up against it big-time. I read some journalist recently lecturing the anti-globalisation lobby, saying, This is the way capitalism works, all capitalism is exploitation and to make it try and do something else, its never gonna happen. And its like, yeah, but where does that leave us? This is somehow Gods will? All this? Its Gods will that we sit in traffic? Its Gods will that millions of people are gonna die this year because of some outmoded economic policies? No, its not! Its like some deranged sacrificial altar, the high priests of the global economy holding up these millions of children each year, like (Arms aloft) We wish to please you! Oh Gods of free trade! Its like... give us all a fucking break! If there is a Devil at work, then he rests in institutions and not in individuals. Because the beauty of institutions is that any individual can abdicate responsibility. The assumption that were all utterly powerless, thats the Devil at work.""
"As long as you keep getting born, it’s okay to die sometimes."
"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that theres free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate."
"History is a strange experience. The world is quite small now; but history is large and deep. Sometimes you can go much farther by sitting in your own home and reading a book of history, than by getting onto a ship or an airplane and traveling a thousand miles. When you go to Mexico City through space, you find it a sort of cross between modern Madrid and modern Chicago, with additions of its own; but if you go to Mexico City through history, back only 500 years, you will find it as distant as though it were on another planet: inhabited by cultivated barbarians, sensitive and cruel, highly organized and still in the Copper Age, a collection of startling, of unbelievable contrasts."
"As soon as a thought or word becomes a tool, one can dispense with actually ‘thinking’ it, that is, with going through the logical acts involved in verbal formulation of it. As has been pointed out, often and correctly, the advantage of mathematics—the model of all neo-positivistic thinking—lies in just this ‘intellectual economy.’ Complicated logical operations are carried out without actual performance of the intellectual acts upon which the mathematical and logical symbols are based. … Reason … becomes a fetish, a magic entity that is accepted rather than intellectually experienced."
"Our feminist culture at the present moment is completely dependent on capitalism. My grandmother was still scrubbing clothes on the back porch on a washboard!"
"A word of the faith that never balks, Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely. It alone is without flaw, it alone rounds and completes all, That mystic baffling wonder alone completes all. (23)"