"Our designed environment is the portrait of the society we dream of. It represents our ideology: that progress starts by creating beauty in order. Thus by pretending we're conquering human flaws, we create an inhumane solitude. We become ghosts in the machine."
" "real social life" itself somehow acquires the features of a staged fake, with our neighbors behaving in "real" life as stage actors and extras..."
Slavoj Zizek (Welcome to the Desert of the Real)
"Most people today think they belong to a species that can be master of its destiny."
John Gray (Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals)
"Nothing; the only perfection, the only absolute. Infinite and eternal nothing."
Aldous Huxley (Point Counter Point)