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This is the Age of Anxiety for the reason of the electric implosion that compels commitment and participation, quite regardless of any "point of view." - Marshall McLuhan

Faced with anything foreign, the Established Order knows only two types of behaviour, which are both mutilating: either to acknowledge it as a Punch and Judy show, or to defuse it as a pure reflection of the West. In any case, the main thing is to deprive it of its history. - Roland Barthes

The first phase of the domination of the economy over social life brought into the definition of all human realization the obvious degradation of being into having. The present phase of total occupation of social life by the accumulated results of the economy leads to a generalized sliding of having into appearing. - Guy Debord

To provide the coming globalization with relief, with optical density, it is necessary not merely to connect up to the cybernetic networks, but, most important, to split the reality of the world in two. As with stereoscopy and stereophony, which distinguish left from right, bass from treble, to make it easier to perceive audiovisual relief, it is essential today to effect a split in primary reality by developing a stereo-reality, made up on the one hand of the actual reality of immediate appearances and, on the other, of the virtual reality of media trans-appearances. - Paul Virilio

The masses are rushing, running, charging through the age. They think they are advancing, but they are simply running on the spot and falling into the void, that is all. - Franz Kafka

The mythologist is condemned to live in a theoretical sociality; for him, to be in society is, at best to be truthful: his utmost sociality dwells in his utmost morality. His connection with the world is of the order of sarcasm. - Roland Barthes

The effectiveness of deterrence hinges on US ability to influence the perceptions of others. Psychological operations (PSYOP) are planned operations to convey selected information and indicators to foreign audiences to influence their emotions, motives, objective reasoning, and ultimately the behavior of foreign governments, organizations, groups, and individuals. The purpose of PSYOP are to induce or reinforce foreign attitudes and behavior favorable to the originator’s objectives. - Psychological Operations Manual of the US Defence Science Board

More than any other art form, rock music appears to have made evident the fact that now there is room for the non-specialist, the non-virtuoso, the amateur. It is possible that this could only happen in a particular form that refused to be analysed into stasis and self consciousness, and where novelty for its own sake is acceptable. - Brian Eno

There’s a lot of work to be done this week on, you know, on these...all these architectural type cakes. And, the week won’t be that bad if I kind of pace myself well. I do like to sit down and just kind of think about the day. In the sporting world they call it visualizing. It could also be called procrastinating. - Geof Manthorne from Charm City Cakes

The psychological dimension affects those fighting the battle, their military leaders and staffs, the political leaders, and the civilian population. Within the battlespace, US forces want to face an adversary that is both unsure about its cause and capabilities and sure about its impending defeat — an adversary who, even if unwilling to surrender, has little will to engage in combat. - Psychological Operations Manual of the US Defence Science Board

With visual (audiovisual) continuity progressively taking over from the territorial contiguity of nations, which has now declined in importance, the political frontiers were themselves to shift from the real space of geopolitics to the 'real time' of the chronopolitics of the transmission of images and sounds. Two complementary aspects of globalization have, then, to be taken into account today: on the one hand, the extreme reduction of distances which ensuees from the temporal compression of transport and transmissions; on the other, the current general spread of tele-surveillence. A new vision of a world that is constantly 'tele-present' twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, thanks to the artifice of this 'transhorizon optics' which puts what was previously out of sight on display. - Paul Virilio

Once I actually managed to score a hole in one, though by a sheer fluke. Otherwise I was less interested in the actual putting as I was by the vintage-looking yellow score card that came with the putter and ball. Sport was baffling; stationery divine. - Dickon Edwards

The Global War on Terrorism replaced the Cold War as a national security meta narrative. Governments, media, and publics use the terrorism frame for cognitive, evaluative, and communication purposes. For political leaders, it is a way to link disparate events; identify priorities, friends, enemies, victims, and blame; and shape simple coherent messages. For journalists and news consumers the terrorism frame conflates and appears to make sense of diverse national security stories – Al Qaeda, Jihadists, Iraq, Afghanistan, Israel, Iran, Chechnya, Indonesia, Kashmir, the Philippines, Kenya, Spain. - American Defense Science Board

Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country. - Bertrand Russell

A cause isn’t necessarily correct because people die for it. — Oscar Wilde

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