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He who cherishes a beautiful vision, a lofty ideal in his heart, will one day realize it.
James Allen • As a Man Thinketh
Building something new would be “a worldmaking project, aimed at building and rebuilding actual structures of social connection and movement, rather than the mere critique of ones we already have.” In other words, we can’t just rearrange the furniture inside rooms we don’t like the shape of; we have to build entirely new rooms in better shapes.
Cydney Hayes • The elite capture of Substack
to arrive at this vision, we must have a global conversation about the world we want to live in.
cameronwiese.com • It's time to build: A New World's Fair
Everything we'd been told for the last decade turned out to be a lie. Markets did not run themselves; creators of financial instruments were not infallible geniuses; and debts did not really need to be repaid – in fact, money itself was revealed to be a political instrument, trillions of dollars of which could be whisked in or out of existence
... See moreDavid Graeber • Occupy Wall Street Rediscovers the Radical Imagination
Our heart beats, but we do not “do” the beating of our hearts — it just happens. Taoism says “wu-wei er wu bu-wei” — by non-doing, nothing is left undone.
George Yancy • How to Die (Without Really Trying)
I often like to talk about feminism not as something that adheres to bodies, not as something grounded in gendered bodies, but as an approach—as a way of conceptualizing, as a methodology, as a guide to strategies for struggle. That means that feminism doesn’t belong to anyone in particular.
Angela Y. Davis • Freedom Is a Constant Struggle
“The culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn’t work, don’t buy it.”