People have tried all kinds of ways to fix things, like electing Obama and having a debate about decreasing the power of corporations. Then the Supreme Court gives them personhood with the Citizens United decision. You realize that no matter… — Kalle Lasn Copy Share Image
An increasing number of people are growing uncomfortable with the gulf between the world's rich and the poor. Ostentatiously splashing your money around simply… — Kalle Lasn Copy Share Image
It's a measure of the depth of our consumer trance that the death of the planet is not sufficient to break it. — Kalle Lasn Copy Share Image
The commercial media are to the mental environment what factories are to the physical environment — Kalle Lasn Copy Share Image
“Our mental environment is a common-property resource like the air or the water. We need to protect ourselves from unwanted incursions into it, much… — Kalle Lasn Copy Share Image
All of us somehow felt that the next battleground was going to be culture. We all felt somehow that our culture had been stolen from us-by commercial forces, by advertising agencies, by TV broadcasters. It felt like we were no longer singing our songs and telling stories, and generating our culture from the bottom up, but now we were somehow… — Kalle Lasn Copy Share
The global economy is a doomsday machine that must be stopped and reprogrammed. — Kalle Lasn Copy Share Image
“Corporations are not legal “persons” with constitutional rights and freedoms of their own, but legal fictions that we created and must therefore control.” — Kalle Lasn Copy Share Image
Amming a coin into a monopoly newspaper box or liberating a billboard in the middle of the night can be a rather honest and… — Kalle Lasn Copy Share Image
In the Soviet Union you weren't allowed to speak out against the government. In the US you cannot speak out against sponsors. — Kalle Lasn Copy Share Image
Overconsumption is the mother of all environmental problems. For the first time in the history of capitalism, consumption itself has become controversial. — Kalle Lasn Copy Share Image
“Do an overwhelming number of respected scientists believe that human actions are changing the Earth's climate? Yes. OK, that being the case, let's undermine… — Kalle Lasn Copy Share Image
