Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
splashing in a bog of hesitation
Gabriel Garcia Marquez • One Hundred Years of Solitude
He has what he fancies is a new idea; and he is going to apply it to everybody. As a fact it is simply a false generalisation; but he is really trying to make it general.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
human complexities
Aminah Camara • 2 cards
Public confidence in the existence of shared procedures has been shaken because these procedures are constantly misused. They have become tools to support unlimited production through converging arguments that alternately take a moral, a political, or a legal character.
Ivan Illich • Tools for Conviviality
Random stuff
On the other hand—and I think this the crux of the matter and the revolutionary new departure—we have to take what useful work remains and transform it into a pleasing variety of game-like and craft-like pastimes, indistinguishable from other pleasurable pastimes except that they happen to yield useful end-products.
Bob Black • The Abolition of Work
inscrutability
Haruki Murakami • 1Q84: Books 1 and 2
And this leads me to the second thing that occurs to the mind when it is exposed to the word bureaucracy and that is “red tape,” or what in more dignified terms is called “regulations.”