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The conservationists who are merely organized function as specialists who have lost sight of basic connections.
Wendell Berry • The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture
Here too, there has seemed a radical choice to be made: either fiery, unpredictable and brilliant; or meek, conventional and in bed by nine.
The School of Life • On Being Nice (The School of Life Library)
What Brown opposes to this neoliberal conversion of education – what she calls ‘the saturation of higher education by market rationality [which has] converted higher education from a social and public good to a personal investment in individual futures, futures construed mainly in terms of earning capacity’ – is egalitarianism, social mobility, bro
... See moreAdam Phillips • On Wanting to Change
As the foremost spokesperson for the view that abrupt climate change will result in near-term human extinction (NTHE), he was the Dark Prince of Climate.
Andrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
Whether we like it or not, uncertainty seems to be ingrained in the nature of the universe, and it is why we can never predict the impact on a human life of events at its earliest or subatomic level.
Richard Holloway • Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
a key aspect of what is entailed by being different from the majority: you become accountable, you have to explain yourself.
Vincent Deary • How We Break
Authoritarians are people who think they know how the rest of us should live and how we should be governed. Never how we might learn to govern ourselves. They have the prescription that the rest of us just have to swallow. More potently, they know precisely what we should never be allowed to swallow, especially if they are euphoric substances that
... See moreRichard Holloway • Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
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