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Upton Beall Sinclair è stato uno scrittore, saggista, giornalista, drammaturgo ed attivista statunitense. Wikipedia  

✵ 20. Settembre 1878 – 25. Novembre 1968   •   Altri nomi Upton Beall Sinclair
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“Lo strillo fu seguito da un altro, ancor più sonoro e agonizzante, perché una volta cominciato quel viaggio il maiale non tornava più indietro. Uno dopo l'altro, gli uomini appendevano i maiali e gli aprivano la gola. C'era una fila di maiali che strillavano mentre il sangue sgorgava via. Poi alla fine sparirono tutti in una vasca immensa piena di acqua bollente (alcuni ancora vivi). I maiali erano così ingenui. Pieni di fiducia. Erano davvero molto umani con quelle loro grida di protesta. Non avevano fatto niente per meritarsi tutto ciò.”

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Origine: Da La giungla; citato in Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, Chi c'è nel tuo piatto? Tutta la verità su quello che mangi, traduzione di Nello Giugliano, Cairo editore, Milano, 2009, p. 170. ISBN 978-88-6052-218-4

“[Descrivendo le condizioni dei mattatoi di Chicago] Tutte le volte che avanzava carne troppo guasta da poter essere utilizzata altrimenti, era uso comune inscatolarla o trasformarla in salsicce… Non c'era la minima attenzione per quel che veniva tritato per essere insaccato come salsiccia: dall'Europa, tornavano indietro vecchie salsicce rifiutate da quei paesi, ormai bianchicce e muffite, che – trattate con borace e glicerina, e rovesciate nei recipienti – venivano riciclate per finire sulla tavola di migliaia di famiglie americane. S'usava la carne caduta per terra, su quel pavimento pieno di sporcizia e segatura, su cui i lavoratori camminavano e sputavano miliardi di bacilli di tubercolosi; s'usava la carne ammucchiata negli stanzoni, sulla quale non aveva smesso un attimo di gocciolare l'acqua dal soffitto pieno di crepe, su cui centinaia di topi non avevano smesso un attimo di correre. Era troppo buio per riuscire a vedere bene, in quegli stanzoni, ma bastava passare una mano sui mucchi di carne per raccogliere manciate d'escrementi secchi di topo. I topi erano una grossa scocciatura e i conservieri avevano dato disposizione perché venissero sparsi bocconi avvelenati: gli animali li mangiavano, morivano e poi le carcasse dei topi, il pane avvelenato e la carne finivano tutti insieme nei recipienti per la triturazione.”

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Origine: Da La giungla; citato in Jeremy Rifkin, Ecocidio: ascesa e caduta della cultura della carne, traduzione di Paolo Canton, Oscar Mondadori, Milano, 2014, cap. XX https://books.google.it/books?id=aAakAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT137.

“Sono andato a vedere l'ultimo film di Charlie ieri sera. Le scene nella fabbrica erano molto interessanti e affascinanti, ma il resto ripete semplicemente il vecchio materiale di Chaplin.”

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“The great corporation which employed you lied to you, and lied to the whole country—from top to bottom it was nothing but one gigantic lie.”

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Upton Sinclair libro The Jungle

Origine: The Jungle

“If we are the greatest nation the sun ever shone upon, it would seem to be mainly because we have been able to goad our wage-earners to this pitch of frenzy.”

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Origine: The Jungle

“To do that would mean, not merely to be defeated, but to acknowledge defeat- and the difference between these two things is what keeps the world going.”

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Origine: The Jungle

“An event of colossal and overwhelming significance may happen all at once, but the words which describe it have to come one by one in a long chain.”

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Section 2
100%: the Story of a Patriot (1920)

“It was cold and clammy in the stone cell; they called it the "cooler," and used it to reduce the temperature of the violent and intractable. It was a trouble-saving device; they just left the man there and forgot him, and his own tormented mind did the rest.”

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Section 4
100%: the Story of a Patriot (1920)

“Journalism is one of the devices whereby industrial autocracy keeps its control over political democracy; it is the day-by-day, between-elections propaganda, whereby the minds of the people are kept in a state of acquiescence, so that when the crisis of an election comes, they go to the polls and cast their ballots for either one of the two candidates of their exploiters.”

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Upton Sinclair libro The Brass Check

The Brass Check (1919)

“The first thing brought forth by the study of any religion, ancient or modern, is that it is based upon Fear, born of it, fed by it — and that it cultivates the source from which its nourishment is derived.”

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Upton Sinclair libro The Profits of Religion

Book One : The Church of the Conquerors, "The Great Fear"
The Profits of Religion (1918)

“There would be dreamers of dreams and seers of visions and hearers of voices; readers of the entrails of beasts and interpreters of the flight of birds; there would be burning bushes and stone tablets on mountain-tops, and inspired words dictated to aged disciples on lonely islands. There would arise special castes of men and women, learned in these sacred matters; and these priestly castes would naturally emphasize the importance of their calling, would hold themselves aloof from the common herd, endowed with special powers and entitled to special privileges. They would interpret the oracles in ways favorable to themselves and their order; they would proclaim themselves friends and confidants of the god, walking with him in the night-time, receiving his messengers and angels, acting as his deputies in forgiving offenses, in dealing punishments and in receiving gifts. They would become makers of laws and moral codes. They would wear special costumes to distinguish them, they would go through elaborate ceremonies to impress their followers, employing all sensuous effects, architecture and sculpture and painting, music and poetry and dancing, candles and incense and bells and gongs.”

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Book One : The Church of the Conquerors, "The Priestly Lie"
The Profits of Religion (1918)

“I discover that hardly a week passes that some one does not start a new cult, or revive an old one; if I had a hundred life-times I could not know all the creeds and ceremonies, the services and rituals, the litanies and liturgies, the hymns, anthems and offertories of Bootstrap-lifting.”

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Introductory, "Bootstrap-lifting"
The Profits of Religion (1918)

“The reader will understand that I despise these "yellows"; they are utterly without honor, they are vulgar and cruel; and yet, in spite of all their vices, I count them less dangerous to society than the so-called "respectable" papers, which pretend to all the virtues, and set the smug and pious tone for good society — papers like the "New York Tribune" and the "Boston Evening Transcript" and the "Baltimore Sun," which are read by rich old gentlemen and maiden aunts, and can hardly ever be forced to admit to their columns any new or vital event or opinion. These are "kept" papers, in the strictest sense of the term, and do not have to hustle on the street for money. They serve the pocketbooks of the whole propertied class — which is the meaning of the term "respectability" in the bourgeois world. On the other hand the "yellow" journals, serving their own pocketbooks exclusively, will often print attacks on vested wealth, provided the attacks are startling and sensational, and provided the vested wealth in question is not a heavy advertiser.”

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Upton Sinclair libro The Brass Check

The Brass Check (1919)

“Wherever there was a group of people, and a treasure to be administered, there Peter knew was backbiting and scandal and intriguing and spying, and a chance for somebody whose brains were "all there."”

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Section 2
100%: the Story of a Patriot (1920)

“In the course of my twenty years career as an assailant of special privilege, I have attacked pretty nearly every important interest in America. The statements I have made, if false, would have been enough to deprive me of a thousand times all the property I ever owned, and to have sent me to prison for a thousand times a normal man's life. I have been called a liar on many occasions, needless to say; but never once in all these twenty years has one of my enemies ventured to bring me into a court of law, and to submit the issue between us to a jury of American citizens.”

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Upton Sinclair libro The Brass Check

The Brass Check (1919)

“The supreme crime of the church to-day is that everywhere and in all its operations and influences it is on the side of sloth of mind; that it banishes brains, it sanctifies stupidity, it canonizes incompetence.”

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Book Two : The Church of Good Society, "The Canonization of Incompetence"
The Profits of Religion (1918)

“Now and then it occurs to one to reflect upon what slender threads of accident depend the most important circumstances of his life; to look back and shudder, realizing how close to the edge of nothingness his being has come.”

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Section 1
100%: the Story of a Patriot (1920)

“The methods by which the "Empire of Business" maintains its control over journalism are four: First, ownership of the papers; second, ownership of the owners; third, advertising subsidies; and fourth, direct bribery. By these methods there exists in America a control of news and of current comment more absolute than any monopoly in any other industry.”

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The Brass Check (1919)

“Let us redeem our great words from base uses. Let that no longer call itself Love, which knows that it is not free!”

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Love's Pilgrimage (1911)

“I wrote with tears and anguish, pouring into the pages all that pain which life had meant to me. Externally the story had to do with a family of stockyard workers, but internally it was the story of my own family. Did I wish to know how the poor suffered in winter time in Chicago? I only had to recall the previous winter in the cabin, when we had only cotton blankets, and had rags on top of us. It was the same with hunger, with illness, with fear. Our little boy was down with pneumonia that winter, and nearly died, and the grief of that went into the book.”

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On his writing of The Jungle, in American Outpost: A Book of Reminiscences (1932)

“He was burning with a sense of outrage. He had been tricked and made a fool of; he had been used and flung aside. And now there was nothing he could do — he was utterly helpless. What affected him most was his sense of the overwhelming magnitude of the powers which had made him their puppet; of the utter futility of the efforts that he or any other man could make against them. They were like elemental, cosmic forces; they held all the world in their grip, and a common man was as much at their mercy as a bit of chaff in a tempest.”

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Metropolis (1908)

“When Mr. John P. Gavit, managing editor of the New York Evening Post, wrote to Mr. Melville E. Stone, general manager of the Associated Press, that I had a reputation "as an insatiable hunter of personal publicity," what Mr. Gavit meant was that I was accustomed to demand and obtain more space in newspapers than the amount of my worldly possessions entitled me to.”

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Upton Sinclair libro The Brass Check

The Brass Check (1919)

“Private ownership of tools, a basis of freedom when tools are simple becomes a basis of enslavement when tools are complex.”

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p10, 3rd principle of the 12 Principles of EPIC
I, Governor of California and How I Ended Poverty (1933)

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