What a country calls its vital… interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war. Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat. – Simone Weil, Ecrits historiques et politiques, 1960

The things that inform student culture are created and controlled by the unseen culture, the sociological aspects of our climbing culture, our me generation, our yuppie culture, our SUVs, or, you know, shopping culture, our war culture. – Gus Van Sant