Uke 08

Hierarkiets tyranni

Noen sitater fra Murray Bookchin (1921-2006):

“There are no hierarchies in nature other than those imposed by hierarchical modes of human thought, but rather differences merely in function between and within living things.”

 “Until society can be reclaimed by an undivided humanity that will use its collective wisdom, cultural achievements, technological innovations, scientific knowledge, and innate creativity for its own benefit and for that of the natural world, all ecological problems will have their roots in social problems.”

"The most critical function of modern technology must be to keep the doors of the revolution open forever!"

 "Power to the people can only be put into practice when the power exercised by social elites is dissolved into the people."

 "What we find today is a totally immoral economy and society which has managed to unearth the secrets of matter and the secrets of life at the most fundamental level. This is a society that, in no sense, is capable of utilizing this knowledge in any way that will produce a social good. Obviously there are leavings from a banquet that fall from the table but my knowledge and my whole experience with capitalism and with hierarchical society generally is that almost every advance is as best a promise and at worst utterly devastating for the world."

"I feel that we are confronted with a revolution of monumental importance and while this revolution is in the hands of capital and the state, its impacts upon society could very well be devastating. I cannot foresee that it will benefit human society or the ecology of our planet as much as is will be utilized for domination and hierarchy, which is what all technological innovation, to one extent or another, has always been utilized for."

“The assumption that what currently exists must necessarily exist is the acid that corrodes all visionary thinking.”

Credo for Internet:

“We reject: kings, presidents and voting.

We believe in: rough consensus and running code.”

―David D. Clark