{"author":"Merlyn Gabriel Miller","author_id":"Merlyn+Gabriel+Miller","total_quotes":18,"quotes":[{"text":"A living culture is a progressive culture. It not only allows change, but actively encourages it.","author":"Merlyn Gabriel Miller","tags":["change","culture","progressive"],"id":12393,"author_id":"Merlyn+Gabriel+Miller"},{"text":"Culture is a fibreglass condom suit - highly restrictive, uncomfortable and itchy as hell.","author":"Merlyn Gabriel Miller","tags":["condom","culture","hell","priviledge"],"id":25528,"author_id":"Merlyn+Gabriel+Miller"},{"text":"Do unto others' is a boomerang. Whatever you decide to throw out there will return to you. If you do not like what comes back - change your output.","author":"Merlyn Gabriel Miller","tags":["boomerang","golden-rule","morality"],"id":58685,"author_id":"Merlyn+Gabriel+Miller"},{"text":"Maybe it is not the 'mad' people who should be fixed in order to function in our society, but our society that needs to be fixed so that we do not interfere with their function.","author":"Merlyn Gabriel Miller","tags":["function","mad","madness","society"],"id":98641,"author_id":"Merlyn+Gabriel+Miller"},{"text":"The problem with mad people is not that they are mad, but that they are suffering from a particular brand of madness that the majority are not.","author":"Merlyn Gabriel Miller","tags":["madness","majority"],"id":110289,"author_id":"Merlyn+Gabriel+Miller"},{"text":"Instead of using drugs to create system friendly humans, perhaps we should be creating human friendly systems that do not require people to take drugs to function.","author":"Merlyn Gabriel Miller","tags":["drugs","function","humans","medication","systems"],"id":131849,"author_id":"Merlyn+Gabriel+Miller"},{"text":"The answer to the drug problem is not criminalisation and incarceration, but education, regulation and treatment.","author":"Merlyn Gabriel Miller","tags":["addiction","drugs","regulation"],"id":155883,"author_id":"Merlyn+Gabriel+Miller"},{"text":"Normality is an illusion, created by a conservative culture to control behaviour.","author":"Merlyn Gabriel Miller","tags":["behaviour","conservative","control","culture","illusion","normality"],"id":166792,"author_id":"Merlyn+Gabriel+Miller"},{"text":"So, what is the right way to look at death? Do we see death as life's expiration date and the point of no return? Or is it simply a threshold to be crossed, on the way to another dimension, or another life? Do you want to know what the right answer is?Whatever makes you feel more comfortable about dying.","author":"Merlyn Gabriel Miller","tags":["death-and-dying"],"id":175862,"author_id":"Merlyn+Gabriel+Miller"},{"text":"Oddly enough you can get married and live happily ever after without spawning. Spawning is optional.","author":"Merlyn Gabriel Miller","tags":["children","marriage","procreation","spawning"],"id":195959,"author_id":"Merlyn+Gabriel+Miller"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":18,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}