The most complete paragraph I’ve ever read is (technically, the quote below is just a part of a paragraph):

But the general movement of isolation, which is the reality of urbanism, must also include a controlled reintegration of workers depending on the needs of production and consumption that can be planned. Integration into the system requires that isolated individuals be recaptured and isolated together: factories and halls of culture, tourist resorts and housing developments are expressly organized to serve this pseudo-community that follows the isolated individual right into the family cell. The widespread use of receivers of the spectacular message enables the individual to fill his isolation with the dominant images–images which derive their power precisely from this isolation.

from The society of the spectacle written by Guy-Ernest Debord in 1967, the most insightful book I read yet.

And, while I am at the “the most” chapter:

The most complete book I’ve ever read was : The Neverending story by Michael Ende.

The most insightful literature author I’ve ever read: Aldous Huxley (I’m not talking just about the Brave new world which is the package served to you by the commodity-culture stores and the only mentioned by the commodity-culture people).

The most noble book on homo religiosus: A History of Religious Ideas (3 volumes) by Mircea Eliade.

The lamest attempt at cheating people: institutionalized religion.

The most helpful philosophy I encountered: buddhism.

The most insightful way of living I’ve ever known: yoga.

The most insightful contemporary music artist: Pete Namlook.

The best rock album I’ve ever listened: 666, commited in 1972 by Aphrodite’s Child.

The most insidious type of society organization I’ve ever encountered: unregulated or opaque capitalism.

The most insidious and ill-defined economic concepts I learned about: private property and money.

The shows which were the most worthy of my time: The meaning of life by Monty Python’s Flying Circus, Life is worth losing by George Carlin, and Idiocracy by Mike Judge et al.

Ever above means about 4 decades of contemporary mechanical time.

Perhaps you’re wondering why there are no links to commercial sites selling the stuff above: it’s because these resources should have been public domain in a humanist society. They were available to me because of the classical library. They should be available at no further cost to anybody, now, on the Internet.

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