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What are so called egalitarian societies should less be about equality per se but should be about autonomy (my possibility of actually doing so and so).
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How did we get stuck? There is no single pattern. The only consistent phenomenon is the very fact of alteration, and the consequent awareness of different social possibilities
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Human thought is inherently dialogic, but it turns out individuals have been considered isolated, rational, self-conscious—as a normal default state of human beings anywhere.
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Their happiness is entirely derived from their inability to imagine things otherwise, or to project themselves into the future in any way at all.
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There is no “original” form of human society. Searching for one can only be a matter of myth-making…
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One must simplify the world to discover something new about it. The problem comes when, long after the discovery has been made, people continue to simplify.
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