Technology will save the world from technology.
Violence will save the world from violence.
Aggression will save the world from aggression.
Inequality will save the world from inequality.
Hate will save the world from hate.
Dominance will save the world from dominance.
Toxins will save the world from toxins.
Weapons will save the world from weapons.
Starvation will save the world from starvation.
Crime will save the world from crime.
Devastation will save the world from devastation.
Despair will save the world from despair.
Poverty will save the world from poverty.
Hunger will save the world from hunger.
Homelessness will save the world from homelessness.
Disease will save the world from disease.
Lies will save the world from lies.
Hopelessness will save the world from hopelessness.
Distractions will save the world from distractions.
Imperialism will save the world from imperialism.
Murder will save the world from murder.
Rape will save the world from rape.
Division will save the world form division.
Politicians will save the world from politicians.
Bankers will save the world from bankers.
Bureaucrats will save the world from bureaucrats.
Doctors will save the world from doctors.
Scientists will save the world from scientists.
Silence will save the world from silence.
Deceit will save the world from deceit.
Information will save the world from information.
Abuse will save the world from abuse.
Leaders will save the world from leaders.
Thieves will save the world from thieves.
Paranoia will save the world from paranoia.
War will save the world from war.
“Our Lords and Knights, and Gentry too, doe mean old fashions to forgoe:
They set a porter at the gate, that none must enter in thereat.
They count it a sin, when poor people come in.
Hospitality it selfe is drown'd.
Yet let's be content, and the times lament, you see the world turn'd upside down."
-1643 English ballad, “The World Turned Upside Down”
“Not everyone hears the voices of hopelessness and conformity. Not everyone is carried away by hopelessness. There are millions of people who continue on without hearing the voices of the powerful and the indifferent. They can't hear; they are deafened by the crying and blood that death and poverty are shouting in their ears. But, when there is a moment of rest, they hear another voice. They don't hear the voice that comes from above, they hear the voice that is carried to them by the wind from below, a voice that is born in the Indigenous heart of the mountains. This voice speaks to them about justice and freedom, it speaks to them about hope… the only hope that exists in the world.”
-Subcomandante Marcos, Zapatista Army for National Liberation, “Chiapas: The Southeast in Two Winds: A Storm and a Prophesy”
“I dreamt all men were equal and there were no starving poor
And nations never did quarrel, nor never went to war
I thought all men were angels and women ne'er wore a frown
Old maids they had large families as the world turned upside down”
-1870s English ballad, “The World Turned Upside Down”
"War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength. The terms of political discourse typically have two meanings. One is the dictionary meaning, and the other is a meaning that is useful for serving power – the doctrinal meaning.”
-Noam Chomsky, What Uncle Sam Really Wants
“Obedience to the law is freedom.”
-A sign above the entrance to a US army base in 1960s Germany
“Down is up. Black is white.”
-The Dane, Miller’s Crossing, Joel and Ethan Coen
