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Kurt Vonnegut, talking about when he tells his wife he’s going out to buy an envelope:
“Oh, she says well, you’re not a poor man. You know, why don’t you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet? And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I’m going to have a hell of a good time in the process of
... See moreOur understanding of the world is shaped by a hunger for narrative that rises out of our discomfort with ambiguity and arbitrary events. When surprising things happen, we search for an explanation. The urge to resolve ambiguity can be surprisingly potent, even when the subject is inconsequential.
Henry L. Roediger III • Make It Stick
Capitalism, he noted, is not something imposed on us by some outside force. It only exists because every day we wake up and continue to produce it. If we woke up one morning and all collectively decided to produce something else, then we wouldn’t have capitalism anymore.
David Graeber • The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
so so happy with new Sublime. pulling back on UI was exactly what I was wanting
“What does it mean to think of revolution not as destroying capitalism, but as ceasing to create capitalism?”
Stop making Capitalism – John Holloway
https://johnholloway.com.mx/2011/07/30/stop-making-capitalism/
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Stop making Capitalism – John Holloway
https://johnholloway.com.mx/2011/07/30/stop-making-capitalism/
via Instapaper
bangers and on capitalism
This whole piece is just ::chef's kiss::