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Now she sees a forest, spreading across these mountains since before humans left Africa, giving way to second homes. She sees it in one great glimpse of flashing gold: trees and humans, at war over the land and water and atmosphere. And she can hear, louder than the quaking leaves, which side will lose by winning.
The Overstory
Richard Powers
Aristotle observes that the simple accumulation of capital
merits reproach because it concerns only bare life, and not the good life: “So some people believe that this is the task of household management, and go on thinking that they should maintain their store of money or increase it without limit. The reason they are so disposed, however, is that they are preoccupied with living, not with living well. And since their appetite for life is unlimited, they also want an unlimited amount of what sustains it.” Aristotle, Politics, trans. C.D.C. Reeve (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1998), 17 (1257b)
The Burnout Society
Han, Byung-Chul;
The most fundamental thing we fail to appreciate about the world, Heidegger asserts in his magnum opus, Being and Time, is how bafflingly astonishing it is that it’s there at all—the fact that there is anything rather than nothing.
Four Thousand Weeks
Oliver Burkeman
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