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A postindustrial society must and can be so constructed that no one person’s ability to express him-or herself in work will require as a condition the enforced labor or the enforced learning or the enforced consumption of another.

Tools for Conviviality

Ivan Illich

The toxins you are ingesting are your own thoughts. The present moment is usually okay, but you are actively injecting it with discontent.

Can't Stop Thinking

Colier, Nancy

Félix Ravaisson, the vitalist philosopher whose Of Habit remains one of the most in-depth treatises on the phenomenon, deems habit a form of grace, one that allows humans, who are burdened with consciousness and will, to take part in the spontaneity of the natural world.

Routine Maintenance, by Meghan O’Gieblyn

harpers.org

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