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If tools are not controlled politically, they will be managed in a belated technocratic response to disaster. Freedom and dignity will continue to dissolve into an unprecedented enslavement of man to his tools.
Tools for Conviviality
Ivan Illich
We tend to spend our whole lives looking for a way to fix the past so we can have permission to enter the present, only to find out that we didn’t need permission at all. The whole paradoxical catastrophe is tragically ridiculous.
Can't Stop Thinking
Colier, Nancy
It’s a book-length case that intellectual inequality is demonstrably innate, therefore merit is a lie, therefore socialism is good. And of course, I agree that “merit” is a lie and socialism is good but since the first point is false for very clear reasons, those “therefores” never get to carry us logically to the egalitarian utopia.
We Don’t Know Our Potential ❧ Current Affairs
currentaffairs.org
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