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Tragedy, he perceived, belonged to the ancient time, to a time when there were still privacy, love, and friendship, and when the members of a family stood by one another without needing to know the reason.

America will never complete the work of reconstruction—will never even get close to being a more perfect union—until we are honest about her past and the politics of rejection.

The internet as we know it is quietly/rapidly changing—and not necessarily for the better. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is quietly taking over much of the digital world, and soon, we may find ourselves living in a reality where almost everything we see online is artificially generated.

Humans? Some of us are surviving, following, flocking—but some of us are trying to imagine where we are going as we fly. That is radical imagination

The point is this: we all must give a fuck about something, in order to value something. And to value something, we must reject what is not that something. To value X, we must reject non-X.

“One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.”

The changing economy was ignored, plans for the change ignored; and only means to destroy revolt were considered, while the causes of revolt went on.

The remedy to alienation, a state that often keeps people cooperative and docile in the face of injustice, is belonging

We forget that, although freedom of speech constitutes an important victory in the battle against old restraints, modern man is in a position where much of what “he” thinks and says are the things that everybody else thinks and says; that he has not acquired the ability to think originally