Charles Eisenstein Quotes
I'll start with where we are right now. The map that I'll use is this birthing process, this kind of profound transition that we're going through, where the old narratives, the old story, the old mythology is wearing thin, beginning to fall apart. And as it does so, people hold on to it even more tightly. They haven't let go and won't let go until it becomes simply impossible to hold on to it anymore. And we're nearing that time, but not yet. Right now you can still pretend everything's normal, even though it's greatly hollowed out.
Quotes to Explore
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We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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So at the end of the day, our number 1 goal, our top priority, is to motivate American youngsters to reject the abuse of illegal drugs, tobacco and alcohol. All three of them are illegal behaviors.
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I'm actually not on Twitter.
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My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska.
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AIDS is a plague - numerically, statistically and by any definition known to modern public health - though no one in authority has the guts to call it one.
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I'm proud to be here as a man that has played first base more than anybody in the game of baseball.
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I can only try to keep the characters interesting; it's up to the readers to decide whether they're still relevant.
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As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.
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It is now clear that major irregularities did not occur.
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For me, being a writer was never a choice. I was born one. All through my childhood I wrote short stories and stuffed them in drawers. I wrote on everything. I didn't do my homework so I could write.
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If it was just me and Elvis one on one, which only happened once or twice in the times that I did see him, it was a really comfortable. He was a cool guy. Easy laugh, nice guy.
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I'm going to be shaking my booty when I'm 55.
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It's interesting how some songs really lend themselves to performance in a big public venue and performance by a band and so on, and so they're even more successful in that context than they were on the record.
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I understood jazz, I understood how it worked. That's what I apply to everything.
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I think wealthy conservatives are busy investing in profit and job creation and enterprise, and wealthy liberals, many of them either from the media industry themselves or from - they recognize the value of communications and are more ready to put money into a less profitable enterprise, namely the media.
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I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
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The enemy of liberal capitalism today is not so much socialism as nihilism.
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Go on, have a pasty," said Harry, who had never had anything to share before or, indeed, anyone to share it with. It was a nice feeling, sitting there with Ron, eating their way through all Harry's pasties, cakes, and candies (the sandwiches lay forgotten).
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Art is the ultimate luxury good, but one that can make you think, give a you a blast of beauty and enhance your life. Even if the work's made of plasticine.
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Everything's borne out of human experience, of course - rejection, humiliation, poverty, whatever. People aren't born bad, no matter how harsh the circumstances. There is a person in there, and that person is not made of ice.
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Certainly, we didn't have the crowds we would have had if we'd had weather like last year. This year we had two crummy days.
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I'll start with where we are right now. The map that I'll use is this birthing process, this kind of profound transition that we're going through, where the old narratives, the old story, the old mythology is wearing thin, beginning to fall apart. And as it does so, people hold on to it even more tightly. They haven't let go and won't let go until it becomes simply impossible to hold on to it anymore. And we're nearing that time, but not yet. Right now you can still pretend everything's normal, even though it's greatly hollowed out.
