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The conviviality for which noted social philosopher Ivan Illich is arguing is one in which the individual’s personal energies are …
A great view into how the UK is failing it's poor - who are on the brink on turning from the working poor to the working homeless, under an ongoing cost-of-living crisis and a continuous string of failing governments.
As always, she does a great job in combining documentary photography, scrapbooking and relevant texts (e.g. from parliamentary debates). Well worth your time if you can get your hands on it!
In this fiery, theoretical tour de force, Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Artie Vierkant offer an overview of life and death under …
Zelda es, junto con Mario, la gran creación del legendario Shigeru Miyamoto. Si Mario es la diversión pura, Zelda es …
Zelda es, junto con Mario, la gran creación del legendario Shigeru Miyamoto. Si Mario es la diversión pura, Zelda es …
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Following in the footsteps of the explorers Gene Savoy and Hiram Bingham, Thomson set off into the jungle …
From Goodreads:
Following in the footsteps of the explorers Gene Savoy and Hiram Bingham, Thomson set off into the jungle …
But the notion that individuals who walk away might find common cause, might use that cause to build something that, if not entirely separate from the system, is at least not completely aligned with it, reads to the system to any system of empire as fantasy. For someone fortunate enough to be born wearing the boot, the capacity for mercy may well extend only to how hard one chooses to step on the neck. That anyone should take the shoe off entirely, walk from the site of the trampling, is unthinkable
— One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad (duplicate) (Page 117)
If the system to which I am forced to appeal responds only to attacks on its self-interest, what is there to hope for but that the next glaringly obvious injustice just happens to not quite perfectly intersect with that self-interest? What is the ethical legitimacy of any system in which one has to hope the most privileged sliver of global society decides, in large enough numbers, that a sufficient number of children have been murdered to warrant choosing a different brand of couscous? That enough migrants have been caged or drowned to make a particular vacation spot unappealing? That the well-being of Congolese children outranks the desire for ever more powerful smartphones?
— One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad (duplicate) (Page 113)
Every morning countless well-paid, well-educated foot soldiers in the employ of the Democratic Party wake up and decide on the day's talking points. Every morning a small army of spokespeople step to the lecterns and deliver statements about how much the president cares for innocent lives, or the immense effort the United States makes to minimize unnecessary suffering. or whatever it is that needs to be said that day so as to launder the evil done between the last press conference and this one. A growing number of people ask a different question; the world asks a different question. The world, full of people who factor not one iota in the calculus of those morning meetings, looks upon this and asks, simply: Beyond self-interest, what do you believe in? And every morning the answer, dressed up in anesthetic euphemism and dependent on our collective capacity for resignation to the lesser of two evils, is: Nothing
— One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad (duplicate) (Page 84)
This is so depressingly accurate
