Opting Out Quotes

• Americans are opting out of public venues like the playground and the sidewalk for private venues like the healthclub and the mall. We're living our lives inside one form of corporation or another.

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  Robert D. Kaplan

  Corporations   Form   Malls  

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• Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going to be the stuff out there, but the stuff inside your head. It's going to be commercial and nasty at the same time.

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  J. G. Ballard

  Reality   Migration   Stuff  

  Heavy Metal Interview, April 1982.

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• Since we can't count on the meat, egg, and dairy industries to protect animals from the most egregious forms of cruelty, what can we, as consumers, do? Opting out of paying someone to allow animals to die in a barn fire or at the slaughterhouse seems pretty reasonable.

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  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal   Fire   Eggs  

  "Here’s a Recipe for Roast Chicken Everyone Should Find Objectionable" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 23, 2012.

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• When opting out from partnership is so easy, every minor disagreement is perceived as a major catastrophe and irreparable disaster.

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  Zygmunt Bauman

  Partnership   Easy   Disaster  

  Interview with Marcelo Dimentstein, Alberto Senderey, Andy Spokoiny and Shira Shnitzer, leatid.org. February 2009.

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• Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about opting out of this world, but about enabling us to live more intensely within it.

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  Karen Armstrong

  Technology   Enabling   World  

  Karen Armstrong (2004). “A Short History Of Myth”, p.3, Canongate Books

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