Quotes About Awareness

The more you learn, the more you realize the less you know. You think you're approaching some kind of horizon, but in fact the horizon is receding, and the more you learn, the more you see that horizon is very far away

Those who are advantaged by the status quo are continually at work to make us understand that the way things are is the way things should be. And thus, the ways in which we understand the world are very much connected to the ways in which we interact with the world.

As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome." ? Noam Chomsky

On almost all issues, citizens could not identify the stands of the candidates--as intended.

The U.S. media do not function in the manner of the propaganda system of a totalitarian state. Rather, they permit indeed encourage spirited debate, criticism, and dissent, as long as these remain faithfully within the system of presuppositions and principles that constitute an elite consensus, a system so powerful as to be internalized largely without awareness

I started with reading Chomsky and slowly became very interested in anything that had to do with Israel/Palestine. Reading Edward Said, Mahmoud Darwish, Ghassan Kanafani, John Berger, Tanya Reinhart, Ilan Pappé, Norman Finkelstein, Noam Chomsky, Kurt Vonnegut, Arundhati Roy, Naomi Klein . . . all became part of my daily routine.

but unless Western populations can rise to the level of Egyptians they're going to remain victims.

Las personas educadas bajo un modelo domesticador no son capaces de interconectar las piezas y distinguir dos dimensiones.

Global warming has an abstract feel. Who understands the difference between 1.5ºC and 2ºC (2.7ºF and 3.6ºF respectively)—in contrast to having food to put on the table for your children tomorrow?

This is a very important kind of step, to think about the fact that much of behavior is rule-bound, and this is what Giddens is thinking about when he says that practical consciousness works for most everyday situations, but there are circumstances in which we begin to become aware that we have internalized a whole number of rule-governed behaviors (1984).

Dotar a los alumnos de instrumentos críticos que les permitan extraer el contenido ideológico de los mitos.

Consciousness is some kind of peripheral thing which picks up some of what's going on in our head.

lo que debemos hacer es tratar de entender la verdad acerca del mundo. Y la verdad acerca del mundo es generalmente bastante fea.

They all know exactly what they're doing, not just the reporters and the editors of the major press, but also the CEOs of the energy and financial corporations. And, of course, also the political leaders. They're not illiterate.

It doesn't matter what we cover, it matters what you discover

Show me a woman who cries when the trees lose their leaves in autumn and I'll show you a real asshole.

On some level, my life has been wasted on me. After all, if I can't remember it, who can? The past is slipping away and the present is a constant affront. I can't possibly keep up.

I discovered then that the world I was living in was so much more interesting than the world I was capable of conceiving.

conciencia para que encaje en el molde de estos años».

Oímos montones de historias a lo largo de la infancia y, cuando nos hacemos mayores, de repente descubrimos algo que no pasa la prueba olfativa. En cierto modo, son demasiado redondas.

Make your days count. Don't invest all your efforts in the future. You miss too much of the now.

Why don't you put your ego down for a while, Justin. It must be getting heavy.

Memories are nice little possessions. As long as you don't ignore the present when you take them out to play.

I promised myself that no matter where I went, what I did, I'd never take anything for granted again.