Katie Lucas
@katielu
Katie Lucas
Highly recommend Rules of the Game (1939) but it's weird for what it doesn't mention: what underwrites all that wealth, how the charaters can be bored and unhappy in luxury.
One clue is the "Romantic Negress" music box. And the table piled high with bananas from Martinique & Guadeloupe plantations.
One clue is the "Romantic Negress" music box. And the table piled high with bananas from Martinique & Guadeloupe plantations.
Bluesky
In the three or four decades that millennials like me have been alive, young people have been reckoning with the brutal truth that democracy works for the few, not the many. In the years following the 2008 financial crisis, quality of life declined for the most of us while the billionaires got richer. At the same time, politicians have been... See more
Alec Leach • The invisible philosophy that’s destroying the world
9 Life Lessons by Tim Minchin
You don’t have to have a dream. Be micro-ambitious, work with pride on whatever is in front of you. Be careful on long term dreams, if you focus too far in front of you, you won’t see the shiny thing out the corner of your eye.
Don’t seek happiness. Keep busy and aim to make someone else happy and you might find you get
You can’t really be in favour of both democracy and billionaires, because democracy requires equal opportunity in order to participate, and extreme wealth gives its holders unfathomable advantages with little accountability.
Rebecca Solnit • In the Shadow of Silicon Valley
How You Can Protect Democracy
protectdemocracy.org