"Emotions are becoming commercialized. In the future, consumers will no longer buy products but rather lifestyles and the stories, experiences, and emotions that products convey."
— Grant Leach, managing director of The Revo Group advertising agency, 2001.

If you lie at the base of a tree and look up, it look like a road into the sky.

Direct vs. Representative Democracy

          "Everywhere people are faced with a situation in which it doesn't matter anymore who they vote for, because the economic policies will be the same as long as our so-called "democratic" structures remain the same. 

          Occupy signifies a political impasse at which we all stand whether we know it or not―an historical moment that is defined by the inability of existing democratic structures to fulfil the democratic values we have come to expect: equality, the ability to meet our most basic needs, and a way to have a political voice in determining the most important decisions that affect our lives."

— Marianne Maeckelbergh

     "Horizontal Decision-Making across Time and Place."
     In Hot Sports — Occupy, Anthropology, and the 2011 Global Uprisings.