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Jeremy Seabrook quotes

Ocupation: Journalist

Life: b. 1939

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To provide its happy people with perpetual fun is now the deepest purpose of Western civilization.

Topics: Fun, Civilization, People, Western Civilization

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The only chance of satisfaction we can imagine is getting more of what we have now. But what we have now makes everybody dissatisfied. So what will more of it do -- make us more satisfied, or more dissatisfied?

Topics: Satisfaction, Chance, Imagine, Dissatisfied

It is impossible to restore the sustainable societies of indigenous and aboriginal peoples. But the values they embodied - careful stewardship of the earth, modest use of its riches, safeguarding the future of the generations to come, restraint and as high a degree of self-provisioning as possible - can reanimate ancient and still unrealized dreams of a secure sustenence for all.

Topics: Dream, Self, Degrees, Safeguarding, Unrealized Dreams

There is one rule for the G-7 (richest countries) and another for the South. The G-7 now preaches open economies and liberalization, as well as 'good governance' and 'transparency'. Yet none of these things was conspicuous when the West grew rich.

source: - Jeremy Seabrook (2003). “The No-nonsense Guide to World Poverty”, p.70, Verso

Topics: Country, West, Rich

Human rights are particularly cherished by the West, which has never acknowledged economic rights. Human rights mean freedom from politcal oppression, tyranny and abuse, while economic oppression, tyranny and abuse are built into the very structures of globalization.

Topics: Mean, Rights, Abuse

Since felons are subsequently disfranchised, the US now has 1.75 million people disqualified from voting because of their criminality- 1.4 million black men have forfeited their right to vote, almost 15 per cent of the black male population.

source: - Jeremy Seabrook (2003). “The No-nonsense Guide to World Poverty”, p.14, Verso

Topics: Men, People, Voting, Felons, Black Males

A sense of self has to be sought in the parade of images and products; and this culture becomes the main determinant upon morality, beliefs, and purpose, usurping more and more territory that formerly belonged to parents, teachers, community, priests, and politics alike.

source: - Jeremy Seabrook (1978). “What Went Wrong?: Why Hasn't Having More Made People Happier?”, Pantheon

Topics: Teacher, Self, Community

The individual is denuded of everything but appetites, desires, and tastes, wrenched from any context of human obligation or commitment. It is a process of mutilation; and once this has been achieved, we are offered the consolation of reconstituting the abbreviated humanity out of the things and the goods around us, and the fantasies and vapors which they emit.

Topics: Commitment, Humanity, Desire, Mutilation

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