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This is to my mind the essence of right-wing thought: a political ontology that through such subtle means allows violence to define the very parameters of social existence and common sense.
David Graeber • The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
“In any given situation, how might you increase the amount of freedom that’s available to you?” Sophie Scott-Brown’s version of anarchism — THE ALTERNATIVE
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The point is rather that we should be highly suspicious of people and movements that depict themselves as escaping human nature's self-serving and competitive instincts or propose societal transformations that rely on our collective ability to escape them. And more generally, we should be sceptical of any narrative endorsed by those on the left or ... See more
Dan Williams • On becoming less left-wing (Part 1)
We live in a time where, in the words of social theorist Roberto Unger, we are governed by people who ‘confuse conformism with realism’.6
Rob Hopkins • From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
-It lets workers reclaim their agency.
Rex Woodbury • What People Misunderstand About The Creator Economy
Futures where we move past tired promises of “freedom from”—from established institutions, from regulation, from responsibility—and towards the shared capacity for building “freedom to”—to create, to learn, to struggle, to strengthen collective institutions, to ensure shared security.
Michael Lewkowitz • Towards a Digital Pluriverse
The social group is broken down into atomized individuals who fight for their right to fulfillment via professional advancement or personal consumption. This system is often sold to us as freedom. Those competing individuals never find true autonomy, however, because they lack the social fabric in which to exercise it.
Douglas Rushkoff • Team Human
Without socially positive opportunities to exercise our autonomy, we tend toward self-promotion over self-sacrifice and fixate on personal gain over collective prosperity.