GOOD MOVIE

"Give your children enough money to do something,
not enough to do nothing"

IGNORANCE BLISS

"Knowledge without follow-through is worse than no knowledge at all. because if you're guessing and it doesn't work out you can just say, shit, the gods are against me. but if you know and don't do, you've got attics and dark halls in your mind to walk up and down in and wonder about. this ain't healthy, leads to unpleasant evenings, too much to drink and the shredding machine."

Bukowski, Notes of a Dirty Old Man (1969)

FRIENDSHIP

If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence. 

Bukowski, Notes of a Dirty Old Man (1969)

YOU SAY YOU WANTED REVOLUTION?

nazi book burnings, 10 may 1933

"...then please be careful of your leaders, for there are many in your ranks who would rather be president of General Motors than burn down the Shell Oil station around the corner. but since they can’t have one, they take the other"
Bukowski, Notes of a Dirty Old Man (1969)

"The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution."
Hannah Arendt 

Godard also examines the role of the revolutionary within western culture. Although he believes western culture needs to be destroyed, it can only be done so by the rejection of intellectualisation. "There is only one way to be an intellectual revolutionary, and that is to give up being an intellectual"  

THE DOS AND DONTS

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"...and pot. they always equate pot with Revolution. pot just isn’t that good. for Christ’s sake, if they legalized pot half the people would stop smoking it. prohibition created more drunks than grandmother’s warts. it’s only what you can’t do that you want to do."
Bukowski, Notes of a Dirty Old Man (1969)

ROCKUMENTARY