What's it all about? ... Alfie.
As a group of individuals, we had this unwritten social
contract. We agreed to do our part in the community in order to solve problems
that we couldn't individually.
...
Problem being, when we're expected at work, being free,
we might just decide to go down to the beach, write a poem or something. "That's
the damn problem with these freedom seekers."
...
It's why we agreed to obey certain rules, codes of
conduct and behaviour. In the process we've committed to a bound behaviour, get
up at certain times to go to work, etc. In the safety of the city, the Green
Man of the myth has no place.
...
Rich Russians who buy football teams are not the only
oligarchs. An oligarchy, although preferable to a dictatorship like Hitler's, is
any government run by just a few individuals who've found that they can gain
power by outwitting the others. Because power corrupts, instead of remembering
the ultimate goal of freedom — perfect, intelligent co-operation inter-function
— they have said, "All these beings
who are subject to our educational commands, can be used as if they were oxen.”
...
Oligarchs have said, "all these potentially human
beings can be kept at a sub-human level with the appropriate methods of
indoctrination, and then we can be free, we can be human, but only at the
expense of most human beings being analysed, reduced to the level of an intensive
farm with locked up chickens and locked up pigs and cattle."
...
Anyone who's undergone state education will find it very,
very difficult, without external help, to find true freedom of thought ... the
state has taught the teachers.
[abridged excerpt from the talk "The Divine
Hermaphrodite"]
