Sublime

than be slaves to market forces (Du Bois 1933b).

it is too easy to only blame the eugenic systems out there without also examining how our private thoughts and judgments reflect and reproduce a dominant imagination that values specific lives over others. The first, perhaps most difficult, step toward exorcising eugenic ideas from our institutions is by reckoning with the ways that white

policies.

However, he continues, over the last 50 years the need for people to be “legible” and fit into a standard model of work has merely become “industrially preferable.” This puts government and institutional leaders in a position where they are incentivized to convince people that following rigid paths in their institutions is the correct path for

What a powerful construction race is—powerful enough to consume us. And it comes for us early.

La seule façon de sauvegarder la complexité d’une société, c’est-à-dire ses libertés, avec un minimum d’autorité répressive, ne peut être autre chose que le sentiment vécu d’appartenance à la communauté.

policies, which were chopping the ladder they climbed up and then punishing people for falling.

English economist and writer Barbara Ward, an eminent intellectual and moral leader, whose legacy was rooted in the belief that the environment and development are fundamentally linked. Human beings, she once wrote, had forgotten how to act as good guests on earth and to tread lightly on our planet as other creatures do.