• Maximo Park

All these objects that are supposed to reveal
The hero we are when behind the wheel
I’ve never identified with the kind of masculine drive
That others possess in a speeding car
Yet how do you engage
With the latest craze
When the most obsolete things
Are all the rage?
Yet how do you engage
With the latest craze
When the most obsolete things
Are all the rage?
How can you turn your back on the working class
When you’ve never faced them in the past?
How can you turn your back on the working class
When you’ve never faced them in the past?
The more energy we burn
The freer we become
When work is the model and the core
Please marginalise
The harsh necessities that tend to arise
When work is the model and the core
Please marginalise
The harsh necessities that tend to arise
The more energy we burn
The freer we become
The masters of our own death
The sun mocks the clouds
But he had needs back in his real life

Famous quotes by Jean Baudrillard:

"Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore."

"There is no aphrodisiac like innocence."

"The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence."

"Smile and others will smile back. Smile to show how transparent, how candid you are. Smile if you have nothing to say. Most of all, do not hide the fact you have nothing to say nor your total indifference to others. Let this emptiness, this profound indifference shine out spontaneously in your smile."

"It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are."

"With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost."

"The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism."

"A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy."

"You need an infinite stretch of time ahead of you to start to think, infinite energy to make the smallest decision. The world is getting denser. The immense number of useless projects is bewildering. Too many things have to be put in to balance up an uncertain scale. You can't disappear anymore. You die in a state of total indecision."

"At the heart of pornography is sexuality haunted by its own disappearance"

"With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost."

"The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism."

"A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy."

"You need an infinite stretch of time ahead of you to start to think, infinite energy to make the smallest decision. The world is getting denser. The immense number of useless projects is bewildering. Too many things have to be put in to balance up an uncertain scale. You can't disappear anymore. You die in a state of total indecision."

"At the heart of pornography is sexuality haunted by its own disappearance"

"Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore."

"There is no aphrodisiac like innocence."

"The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence."

"Smile and others will smile back. Smile to show how transparent, how candid you are. Smile if you have nothing to say. Most of all, do not hide the fact you have nothing to say nor your total indifference to others. Let this emptiness, this profound indifference shine out spontaneously in your smile."

"It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are."