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It would be a massive cultural and behavioural shift to radically recast the automobile as a symbol not of freedom, but of restriction.
Medium • There Are No Cars in Wakanda
We’ve reached what Tocqueville described: downright egotism. It’s the ideological wall I find impossible to scale: I don’t know how to make you care about other people.
The Dark Heart of Individualism
She told me that twenty years from now, she thinks work will look like waking up in the morning, opening a device, and deciding the character and length of work that you’d like to do: a quick, day’s long project, a year-long commitment, whatever works for you, the worker, in that moment. Everyone a freelancer, everyone in control of the work
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Wenn man sich die Welt so ansieht, dann fällt auf, dass seit mindestens fünf Jahren jede größere Politik-Entscheidung von Straßenprotesten begleitet wird. Ich glaube, das ist ein Symptom für die Delegitimation unserer Politik. Für das Gefühl, dass irgendetwas in der Welt aus den Spuren geraten ist.
"Rituale Des Trauerns Um Bessere Zeiten"
Among the many challenges in a capitalist society, it’s hard to imagine a way to profit from a car-free future. Governments don’t profit from providing public transportation to citizens. It’s a service, a reflection of our commitment to the social good. Private transportation — cars — are a different animal: hundreds of industries profit from it,... See more
Medium • There Are No Cars in Wakanda
Do not waste the remainder of your life in thoughts about others, when you are not thinking with reference to some aspect of the common good. —Meditations 3.4
“Seven social sins: politics without principles, wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, and worship without sacrifice.” — Mahatma Gandhi
Maybe all the talking about the bad influence of smartphones and social media having a bad influence on young people is heavily exaggerated - and just an excuse to not bother much about making their living and learning conditions better, and caring more about the future world they gonna have to live in