It is not just material substances, including nuclear ones, which pose a waste problem but also the defunct ideologies, bygone utopias, dead concepts and fossilized ideas which continue to pollute our mental space. Historical and intellectual refuse pose an even more serious problem than industrial waste. Who will rid us of the sedimentations of centuries of stupidity?

Jean Baudrillard, The Illusion of the End (Polity Press, 1994) p.26

The beam of memory bends, and makes every event a black hole.

Jean Baudrillard, The Illusion of the End (Polity Press, 1994) p.20

Det var icke en lögn men det har blivit. När du var ung, moder, hade du rätt, när jag blir gammal, ja, då har jag kanske orätt! Man växer inte i kapp med tiden!

August Strindberg, Mäster Olof (Albert Bonniers Förlag, 1949) p. 70