“He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.” George Orwell 1984 “A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.” Robert Heinlein In 1916 Hugo Ball and Emmy Hennings launched Café Voltaire and the Dada movement in Zurich in
“We have changed the atmosphere, and that will change the weather. The temperature and rainfall are no longer to be entirely the work of some separate, uncivilized force, but instead in part a product of our habits, our economies, our ways of life.” Bill McKibben, The
Sometimes words fail us. They cannot contain the depth of our grief, the many shades of our sorrow, or the complexities of conflicting emotions. They cannot convey all the permeations of anxiety that inhabit our bodies in the face of what is beyond our control. But
“Ground Control to Major Tom, Take your protein pills and put your helmet on. This is Major Tom to Ground Control, I'm stepping through the door, And I'm floating in the most peculiar way, And the stars look very different today.” David Bowie, Space Oddity 1969 “I was
“Time is the essential ingredient, but in the modern world there is no time.” Rachel Carson “Humanity has managed collaterally to decimate the natural environment and draw down the nonrenewable resources of the planet with cheerful abandon. We thereby accelerated the erasure of entire ecosystems and the
