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Book cover for No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters
We think we wish to join the wild animals in the jungle but will not tolerate the wild animals in our kitchens. There are too many ants, we think, reaching for the spray, when it is equally true that there are too many humans.
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Ursula K. Le Guin
“Artists are people who are not at all interested in the facts—only in the truth. You get the facts from outside. The truth you get from inside.”
Ursula K. Le Guin, The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy
tags: art, truth

David Graeber
“Max Planck once remarked that new scientific truths don’t replace old ones by convincing established scientists that they were wrong; they do so because proponents of the older theory eventually die, and generations that follow find the new truths and theories to be familiar, obvious even. We are optimists. We like to think it will not take that long.

In fact, we have already taken a first step. We can see more clearly now what is going on when, for example, a study that is rigorous in every other respect begins from the unexamined assumption that there was some ‘original’ form of human society; that its nature was fundamentally good or evil; that a time before inequality and political awareness existed; that something happened to change all this; that ‘civilization’ and ‘complexity’ always come at the price of human freedoms; that participatory democracy is natural in small groups but cannot possibly scale up to anything like a city or a nation state.

We know, now, that we are in the presence of myths.”
David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

David Graeber
“If something did go terribly wrong in human history – and given the current state of the world, it’s hard to deny something did – then perhaps it began to go wrong precisely when people started losing that freedom to imagine and enact other forms of social existence, to such a degree that some now feel this particular type of freedom hardly even existed, or was barely exercised, for the greater part of human history.”
David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

Ursula K. Le Guin
“Thinking is one way of doing, and words are one way of thinking”
Ursula K. Le Guin, The Birthday of the World and Other Stories

John  Green
“We cannot do the hard work of imagining a better world into existence unless we reckon honestly with what governments and corporations want us to believe, and why they want us to believe it.”
John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

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