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attentive to the deceitful machinations of those who fancy themselves the self-appointed stewards of humanity.
Ruha Benjamin • Imagination: A Manifesto (A Norton Short)
from a social vantage point, everything seems to have been done to prevent such innovations becoming markers of rank or individual distinction – in other words, to prevent the emergence of obvious differences in status, both within and between villages. Intriguingly, it is possible that we are witnessing the birth of an overt ideology of equality i
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CHAPTER 8 EMPOWER THE POOR
Matthew Desmond • Poverty, by America
The gaze of the state intensifies—but the state may find, to its surprise, that its subjects command many of the same capabilities, and are gazing right back upon it.
Adam Greenfield • Radical Technologies
The tropes of "training" and "political maturation," basic components of the European mission civilisatrice, had been deployed by Britain, the United States, and
Gardner Bovingdon • The Uyghurs: Strangers in Their Own Land
advocating regime changes implies also advocating slavery or some similar degradation of the country (since these have been typical outcomes).
Nassim Nicholas Taleb • Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
No one (except perhaps a tyrant) has a private life that can survive public exposure by hostile directive.
Timothy Snyder • On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
“belittlement” is the inevitable lot of human beings in a social world,