The Moorish Republic of Sale in Pirate Utopias by Hakim Bey

“They began to look for some means to restore their pristine state of total independence, which by now had come to take on all the aura of an ancient and revered tradition.” [via]

Consider also:

  1. “a victory for corporations and a disaster for everyone else”
  2. “there is no word which can accurately be translated as ‘Sin’ or ‘Evil,’ in the sense in which these words are generally understood in the religious systems of the West”
  3. “A moral critique of capitalism, emphasizing the ways in which it leads to suffering, only reinforces capitalist realism. Poverty, famine and war can be presented as an inevitable part of reality, while the hope that these forms of suffering could be eliminated easily painted as naive utopianism. Capitalist realism can only be threatened if it is shown to be in some way inconsistent or untenable; if, that is to say, capitalism’s ostensible ‘realism’ turns out to be nothing of the sort.”
  4. “They’re a bunch of medieval religious fanatics,” Steve said. “They don’t need a GP. They need a barber-surgeon.”
  5. “The religion of humanity is a grand, a noble belief. To remember that each and every one has some claim to consideration, that the way to restrain from wrong-doing is through the human heart.”