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“Star Wars was designed to be a modern myth.”

— George Lucas

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I thought this country was built by
Europeans, escaping living under the rule of a King, to establish a New World governed by the people.
Currently we have a president who calls Himself.
Our King
If this is a joke,
I’m not laughing pic.twitter.com/SKblEYiRo1

— Madonna (@Madonna) February 21, 2025

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“I really like my quiet life and I really like putting paint on canvas and I really love my spiritual life and I feel like —and this is something you might never hear another celebrity say as long as time exists — I have enough.”

— Jim Carrey

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“When corporate power controls the marketplace, human beings themselves become products to be exploited.”

— Naomi Klein

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This also has a tie to his suicide note where he feels that his daughter
Frances B. Cobain would grow up to be like him, his worst fear. He says
to Boddah (His imaginary friend) that she,

“Reminds me too much of what I used to be, full of love and joy, kissing
every person she meets because everyone is good and will do her no harm.
And that terrifies me to the point to where I can barely function. I
can’t stand the thought of Frances becoming the miserable,
self-destructive, death rocker that I’ve become.“

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“These blind slaves are told they are “free” and “highly educated” even as they march behind signs that would cause any medieval peasant to run screaming away from them in panic-stricken terror. The symbols that modern man embraces with the naive trust of an infant would be tantamount to billboards reading, ‘This way to your death and enslavement,’ to the understanding of the traditional peasant of antiquity.”

– Michael A. Hoffman II, Secret Societies and Psychological Warfare

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Impersonal forces over which we have almost no control seem to be pushing us all in the direction of the Brave New Worldian nightmare; and this impersonal pushing is being consciously accelerated by representatives of commercial and political organizations who have developed a number of new techniques for manipulating, in the interest of some minority, the thoughts and feelings of the masses.

— Aldous Huxley, Preface to A Brave New World

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La Belle Noiseuse 1991 (Edited for An Experiment in Life Drawing 2015)
 

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