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Some of the wealthiest and most powerful among us, however, have come to accept the insulation equation as a fundamental principle of our world. Amazingly, it works well enough to make them billionaires in the process, confirming the validity of their convictions to themselves and to their growing legions of acolytes. They become our society’s heroes. Cherry-picking compatible ideas from science, economics, and philosophy, they have assembled a mindset that actually encourages them to build a highly technologized society capable of supporting denial at scale.
Survival of the Richest
Douglas Rushkoff
The result is that songs about the land, animals and plants contain the sounds of those things directly too: the call of the raven, the cry of the wolf, the wind in the forest, or the running of the sea. When sung in this way, the joik is an expression of the land itself: the world singing through the singer.
Ways of Being
James Bridle
And as any mixed-race person will tell you—to be half of two things is to be whole of nothing.
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin
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