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“Mankind was always enslaved, they’ll say. Freedom enslaves us to lust, to greed. Take freedom away, and they give me a life of dreaming. They gave you a life of sacrifice, family, community. And society is stable. There is no famine. No genocide. No great wars. And when the Golds fight, they obey rules. They are … noble about it when the great

Pierce Brown • Red Rising (Red Rising Series Book 1)

But chaos in reality has a structure that produces innovation, and anarchy simply means ‘no boss’. Could it be possible to have structure without bosses?

Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World

Underlying the structural changes was an ideological shift toward reciprocity, an ideal of sharing and balance that undergirded economics, politics, and religion across much of the continent. The Sonoran Desert–living O’odham, for example, developed a himdag , or “way of life,” that taught that people are supposed to share with one another... See more

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Convivial reconstruction demands the disruption of the present monopoly of industry, but not the abolition of all industrial production. It does imply the adoption of labor-intensive tools, but not the regression to inefficient tools. It requires a considerable reduction of all kinds of now compulsory therapy, but not the elimination of teaching,

Ivan Illich • Tools for Conviviality

He knows only that these people—the tiny few immune to consensual reality—have a secret he needs to understand.

Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel

Our fate is decided unless you are made aware of a better path and choose to create, play, and win your own game.

Dan Koe • The Art of Focus: Find Meaning, Reinvent Yourself and Create Your Ideal Future

Deschooling Society

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The most fundamental difference was that in Africa I was a member of a family—of a sort of family that the people of your culture haven’t known for thousands of years. If gorillas were capable of such an expression, they would tell you that their family is like a hand, of which they are the fingers. They are fully aware of being a family but are

Daniel Quinn • Ishmael: A Novel (Ishmael Series Book 1)

Man was born to turn the world into a paradise, but tragically he was born flawed. And so his paradise has always been spoiled by stupidity, greed, destructiveness, and shortsightedness.”