the normalization of crisis produces a situation in which the repealing of measures brought in to deal with an emergency becomes unimaginable

Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is there no alternative?

Hermetic quote Fisher Capitalist crisis

Consider also:

  1. “Time to stand down, maybe.” “Nope. Just because there’s no government doesn’t mean our oaths are over. We’ll keep doing what we were tasked to do. Save civilians.”
  2. “The so-called war on terror has done inestimable damage to the world, including the intensification of anti-Muslim racism in the United States, Europe, and Australia. As progressives in the Global North, we certainly have not acknowledged our major responsibilities in the continuation of military and ideological attacks on people in the Arab world.”
  3. “Aleister Crowley added a battery of gnostic power techniques culled from diverse cultural sources”
  4. ‘I am not out of breath,’ I said between gasps. ‘I appear to be out of breath because you assume that I should be but in fact I have no breath to be out of. You see, although you imagine my form, I exist independently from it. Although I appear to be a postman, I am not a postman. I have taken a form that is appropriate for this meeting but I can take any form. My form is meaningful; it is symbolic of my nature. Like a postman, I am a messenger.
  5. Overtime