Top Twenty Semi-Context Free Concepts Purloined from John Berger

 

1. Political resistance often begins in a meanwhile.
2. The consumer is essentially somebody who feels, or is made to feel, lost, unless he or she is consuming.”
3. Once, long ago, a future existed.
4. HOW MUCH LONGER GLOBAL POWER IN D NUMB HAND OF DOSE WHO KNOW NUTHIN?
5. The Eternal is meow.
6. AND NOW A WORD FROM OUR SPONSORS

The most beautiful sea

hasn’t been crossed yet.

The most beautiful child

hasn’t grown up yet.

Our most beautiful days

We haven’t seen yet.

And the most beautiful words I wanted to tell you

I haven’t said yet. – Hikmet

7. One was born into this life to share the time that repeatedly exists between moments: the time of Becoming, before Being risks to confront one yet again with undefeated despair.
8. In the war the dark is on nobody’s side; in love the dark confirms that we are together.
9. Spray. Paint. The. Walls.
10. Illuminated moments arrive by way of tenderness and love.
11. Political resistance often begins in a meanwhile.
12. The consumer is essentially somebody who feels, or is made to feel, lost, unless he or she is consuming.
13. Are we approaching disconnections which amount to what can be called madness when found in the minds of those who believe they can rule the planet?
14. Where do birds go when it rains?
15. The wind got up in the night and took our plans away (Chinese proverb).
16. There is a very direct relationship today between the minutes of meetings and minutes of agony.
17. Happiness is what pierces grief.
18. Spay/Neuter
19. The memory of the dead existing in timelessness may be thought of as a form of imagination concerning the possible, the imagination is close to (resides in) God; but I do not know how.

i.)             God is an astronaut

ii.)            God is an anachronism

iii.)           God is a frozen goat’s milk yogurt honey lavender popsicle 

 

20. Purchase a large 20’ x 10’ strip of painting canvas from local hardware store. Add one of the above quotes using can of Krylon. Display barely legible banner from freeway overpass. Try not to die while hanging banner.

a.)  Feel more alive

b.)  Feel less dead

c.)  Feel between breaths

 

 *1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 16, 17, 19 from John Berger’s Hold Everything Dear.