{"author":"Curious George Brigade","author_id":"Curious+George+Brigade","total_quotes":18,"quotes":[{"text":"When faced with unbridled wildness of reality, dinosaurs fall into fevered delusions of grandeur. In fits of madness, they recreate the world in their own overblown image, bull-dozing the wild and replacing it with a wasteland that reflects their own emptiness. Where there was once the incredibly complex diversity of nature, there is now the dead simplicity of asphalt and concrete.","author":"Curious George Brigade","tags":["anarchism","anarchy","asphalt","concrete","crimethinc","delusions","dinosaurs","emptiness","madness","nature","poltics","reality","wasteland"],"id":6294,"author_id":"Curious+George+Brigade"},{"text":"Within a diverse swarm of individuals and small groups, resistance can be anywhere and anytime; everywhere and all the time.","author":"Curious George Brigade","tags":["anarchism","anarchy","crimethinc","resistance"],"id":7041,"author_id":"Curious+George+Brigade"},{"text":"The voices of actual communities are alive in a way no theory could every be even if, for now, it takes the form of tiny acts of resistance. Who doesn't cheat on taxes, avoid cops, or skip class? These acts themselves may not be revolutionary, but they begin to unravel the control from above. Anarchist approaches must be relevant to everyday experiences and flexible enough to address struggles in different situations and contexts. If we can achieve this, then we may thrive in the world after the dinosaurs. We might even be fortunate enough to be in one of the communities that have a hand in toppling them.","author":"Curious George Brigade","tags":["anarchism","anarchy","cops","crimethinc","dinosaurs","resistance","revolution","taxes","theory"],"id":9289,"author_id":"Curious+George+Brigade"},{"text":"Instead of worship or ignorance of the past, we must make our own tools, our own stories, and our own legends.","author":"Curious George Brigade","tags":["anarchism","anarchy","crimethinc","ignorance","worship"],"id":46004,"author_id":"Curious+George+Brigade"},{"text":"We don't need unity in theory, we need solidarity in practice.","author":"Curious George Brigade","tags":["anarchism","anarchy","crimethinc","revolution","solidarity","unity"],"id":170197,"author_id":"Curious+George+Brigade"},{"text":"The rejection of mass organizations as the be-all, end-all of organizing is vital for the creation and rediscovery of possibilities for empowerment and effective anarchistic work.","author":"Curious George Brigade","tags":["anarchism","anarchy","crimethinc","empowerment","mass-organizations","organization"],"id":185128,"author_id":"Curious+George+Brigade"},{"text":"The desire to “do more in less time” is not a neutral force in our culture; it is the handmaiden of miserable experts, specialists, and leaders. Not everyone has rushed to become efficient. Something else exists on the periphery: an inefficient utopia, a culture of consensus, collectives, and do-it-yourself ethics. A place where time is not bought, sold, or leased and no clock is the final arbiter of our worth. For many people in North America, the problem is not just poverty but lack of time to do the things that are actually meaningful. This is not a symptom of personal failures but the consequence of a time-obsessed society. Today, desire for efficiency springs from the scarcity model, which is the foundation of capitalism. Time is seen as a limited resource when we get caught up in meaningless jobs, mass-produced entertainment, and – the common complaint of activists – tedious meanings.","author":"Curious George Brigade","tags":["anarchism","anarchy","capitalism","collective","consensus","crimethinc","efficiency","entertainment","time"],"id":195579,"author_id":"Curious+George+Brigade"},{"text":"No genuine revolutionary challenge to either the State or Capitalism in the United States can fail to ignore racism's importance in maintaining the current system.","author":"Curious George Brigade","tags":["anarchism","anarchy","capitalism","crimethic","race","racism","revolution","united-states"],"id":203538,"author_id":"Curious+George+Brigade"},{"text":"Anarchy has the flexibility to overcome many of the traditional problems of activism by focusing on revolution not as another cause but as a philosophy of living. This philosophy is as concrete as a brick being thrown through a window or flowers growing in the garden. By making our daily lives revolutionary, we destroy the artificial separation between activism and everyday life. Why settle for comrades and fellow activists when we can have friends and lovers?","author":"Curious George Brigade","tags":["activism","anarchism","anarchy","comrades","crimethic","friendshipship","lovers","philosophy","revolution"],"id":232082,"author_id":"Curious+George+Brigade"},{"text":"Within a diverse swarm of individuals and small groups, resistance can be anywhere and anything; everywhere and all the time.","author":"Curious George Brigade","tags":["anarchism","anarchy","resistance"],"id":292970,"author_id":"Curious+George+Brigade"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":18,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}