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Nuclear power, if we are to believe its advocates, is presumably going to be well used by the same mentality that has egregiously devalued and misapplied man- and womanpower. If we had an unlimited supply of solar or wind power, we would use that destructively, too, for the same reasons.
The World-Ending Fire
Wendell Berry
It follows, then, that encouraging people to use generative models for feats of pseudo-creation can be a way of preventing them from experiencing freedom, from experiencing the specific kind of pleasure that Kant links to aesthetic judgment — the mind’s awareness of its own conceptualizing activity and how this capability authorizes a shared understanding of the world, a common sense.
Epic Forgetting
Rob Horning
As privatisation reforms in the National Health Service continued apace, and as the Blair regime raised (and threatened to further raise) the university tuition fees they had first introduced in 1998, there was a strong sense of decline and fall in British culture — especially among younger people — which was nonetheless offset and obscured by a housing-market bubble and a seemingly robust economy which guaranteed a decent standard of living for many older professionals (though not, as we will see, those in the increasingly besieged public sector).
Capitalist Realism
Mark Fisher
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