damnedenglish

“…It’s the new kind of Democracy, where we vote at the cash counter, not at the ballot box.
Consumerism is the greatest device anyone has invented  for controlling  people…for some peculiar reason they call it shopping. But it’s really the purest kind  of politics…
There is no message. Messages belong to the old politics…
Madness is the key to everything…Now and then slip in a hint of madness, a little raw psychopathology.

Remember, sensation and psychopathology are the only way people make contact with each other today …It’s mood music of the future. People want discipline, and they want violence. Most of all they want structured violence…And in their hearts they’re convinced that psychopathology is close to sainthood.

[So the suburbs dream of violence]

Encourage people to go a little mad -  it makes shopping and love affairs more interesting…  madness is the only freedom left.”

J G Ballard R.I.P
Kingdom Come 2006

“The tendancy of liberals is to create bodies of men and women of all classes, detached from tradition, alienated from religion, and susceptible to mass suggestion, mob rule. And a mob will be no less a mob if it is well fed, well clothed, well housed, and well disciplined.”

*Draft document awaiting publication.