Action is pointless; only senseless hope makes sense. Superstition and religion, the first resorts of the helpless, proliferate.

Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is there no alternative?

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Consider also:

  1. “the normalization of crisis produces a situation in which the repealing of measures brought in to deal with an emergency becomes unimaginable”
  2. Capitalist Realism
  3. If thinking doesn’t end with action, it’s useless. Taking action is why we think.
  4. “Yet by-and-by I hope to weave A song of Anti-Christmas Eve And First- and Second-Beast-er Day. There’s one who loves me dearly (vrai!) Who yet believes me sprung from Tophet, Either the Beast or the False Prophet; And by all sorts of monkey tricks Adds up my name to Six Six Six. Retire, good Gallup! In such strife her Superior skill makes you a cipher! Ho! I adopt the number. Look At the quaint wrapper of this book! I will deserve it if I can: It is the number of a Man.”
  5. “These are still Ways back to God—the three mārgas—the way of knowledge, the way of love, and the way of action”