my interests are illumination, skill, benevolence, and using those to overcome the naturally occurring inefficiencies and tragedies in our relations to each other. I believe our lack of knowledge of each other is the most central nexus of civilization's perennial inability to satisfy its constituting element: all of us as individuals. thus our highest rational activity is to learn and teach (to accelerate the effectiveness of teaching) and to open the way to rationality that omnipotently satisfies our desires without reference to self-preservation. in forgetting small-mindedness and territorial-based and small-group-based ration, we can access the higher ration of universal approaches to wisdom and happiness. best quotes 'Politics is the art of the possible' - Bismarck 'Marxism is the effort to learn the art of government' - Gramsci 'every facsism is the index of a failed revolution' - Benjamin 'Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent ones inevitable.' - John F Kennedy 'what if the particular malfunctionings of capitalism are not accidental disturbances, but structurally necessary? what if the progressive utopian potential in capitalism is an image that omits what is in reality its non-negotiable symptoms and critical points? a dream in which its, as it were, 'repressed truth' articulates itself?' - Zizek
'it took the pretentiousness of youth to stand up to the stone face of an even more pretentious establishment'