To live a radically different life we need to change not only our way of thinking but also our body’s way of feeling. We need to train ourselves in new modes of perception, new sensibilities to the world that enables us to feel so disgusted by the dull familiar actions of daily life that reproduce capitalism that we are unable to carry them out anymore. A trip to the supermarket with its industrial toxic foods will feel like being a tourist in Auschwitz, taking a flight on a plane and pouring tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere will feel like we are dropping cluster bombs on the poor. Buying cheap clothes from H&M will feel like having child slaves crouching in the corner of our bedrooms. We need a new sensitivity where we become so shocked by the banal horrors of this system that puts economics ahead of life, that we are prepared to leave it, prepared to say goodbye.
John Jordan, How to hold up a bank: On riots and flamenco dancing
