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Industrial civilization figured out how to manufacture popular culture and sell it back to the people. You have to marvel at the ingenuity of it!

— Robert Crumb The R. Crumb Handbook by Robert Crumb and Peter Poplaski (2005)

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I’m an outsider. I will always be an outsider.

When I come up against the real world, I just vacillate.

Before industrial civilization, local and regional communities made their own music, their own entertainment.

The R. Crumb Handbook by Robert Crumb and Peter Poplaski (2005)

Killing yourself is a major commitment, it takes a kind of courage. Most people just lead lives of cowardly desperation. It's kinda half suicide where you just dull yourself with substances.

Me, me, me...myself & I...oh no!!! Trapped in my stupid self!

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