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The corporations and machines that replace them will never be bound to the land by the sense of birthright and continuity, or by the love that enforces care. They will be bound by the rule of efficiency, which takes thought only of the volume of the year’s produce, and takes no thought of the life of the land, not measurable in pounds or dollars, which will assure the livelihood and the health of the coming generations.
The World-Ending Fire
Wendell Berry
The event is radically singular, and thus disrupts, resists, challenges, and exceeds all attempts at describing, theorizing, interpretation, reduction, and objectification. Yet any attempt at setting forth or narrating the event and its meaning, paths, and significance must turn to the already available discursive resources.
Derrida on the Event: Singular/Iterable
https://that-which.com/author/hai-ak/
The leadership dictates sometimes in great detail how members should think, act, and feel (for example: members must get permission from leaders to date, change jobs, get married; leaders may prescribe what types of clothes to wear, where to live, how to discipline children, and so forth).
Effective Altruism Is a Dangerous Cult — Here's Why
Émile P. Torres
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