"So let them come, the gay incendiaries with charred fingers! Here they are! Here they are!... Come on! set fire to the library shelves! Turn aside the canals to flood the museums!...Oh, the joy of seeing the glorious old canvases bobbing adrift on those waters, discoloured and shredded!...Take up your pickaxes, your axes and hammers and wreck the venerable cities, pitilessly!"
Marinetti, F. T. (1676-1994) 'The Foundation and Manifesto of Futurism' (from Art in Theory 1900-2000, p. 149)
This quote from an essay on futurism struck me as fascinating. It really captures anarchy (although I don't believe it) and the implications of what anarchy can do.
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