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The system that envelopes us becomes normal by its mere mass, its
ubiquitous messages, its sheer noise. Our society faces what William
Burroughs called a biologic crisis -- "like being dead and not knowing
it." The unwitting dead -- universities, newspapers, publishing houses,
institutes, councils, foundations, churches, political parties -- reach
out from the past to rule us with fetid paradigms from the bloodiest and
most ecologically destructive century of human existence. What should be
merely portraits on the wall of our memories run our lives still, like
parents who retain perpetual hegemony over the souls of their children -
Sam Smith
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The system that envelopes us becomes normal by its mere mass, its
ubiquitous messages, its sheer noise. Our society faces what William
Burroughs called a biologic crisis -- "like being dead and not knowing
it." The unwitting dead -- universities, newspapers, publishing houses,
institutes, councils, foundations, churches, political parties -- reach
out from the past to rule us with fetid paradigms from the bloodiest and
most ecologically destructive century of human existence. What should be
merely portraits on the wall of our memories run our lives still, like
parents who retain perpetual hegemony over the souls of their children -
Sam Smith
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