Corporations, like pieces of art, religions, or other human artifacts, beliefs, or institutions, are manifestations of cultural desire. Any human construct arises in its precise form only within the specific culture that creates it. The music of Jimi Hendrix could not have happened in the 1920s, and the art of Picasso could not have been created and nourished by twelfth-century Normans.... Corporations such as DeBeers, Union Carbide, Freeport McMoRan, and any others you care to name are fruits of our modern, civilized, industrialized society. What cultural desires manifest themselves in these institutions?.... It's not just corporations.... More than half of the U.S. government's discretionary spending goes to the military, to war. This country is the largest exporter of weapons, including weapons of mass destruction. The United States is the largest user of weapons, including, once again, weapons of mass destruction. It is also the largest producer of instruments of torture.

--Derrick Jensen, The Culture of Make Believe (P. 364)

This is the hack: to use the full powers of your awakened, expanded soul in a way which revolves around opening bubbles of alternate reality around yourself and perhaps your magical tribe: giving reality permission to soften, be changed and harden again. To shift local reality in the direction in which your desires are possible, then to experience them. —Ultraculture, P.138

Just because you get to fly around on the astral plane or make bubble worlds where nearly all the confining laws are gone, don’t start thinking of yourself as qualitatively better than other people. You are not. They have collectively willed the mundane world into existence for reasons we may not even be able to guess at, and we exist within or alongside that creation. —Ultraculture, P. 139

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Humor invented seriousness because it's so funny.
— Ran Prieur

I hope, one of these revolutions, instead of killing the rich and burning their houses, we recognize our own embarrassing participation in our exploitation, and we just tell the rich: "Look, we're not going to build your houses anymore, or work in your houses, or make or buy your absurd products, or pay you for the land we live on, or enforce your laws against each other. But we forgive you, and if you're hungry or cold because you never learned to take care of yourself, then we'll let you stay in the houses we built, and eat from the gardens and farms we cultivated, and we'll be patient while you learn to live in an honest, cooperative, subsistence-and-free-time economy."
— Ran Prieur

Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty.
—Anne Herbert