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After supper, when they weren’t too tired, neighbors would walk across the fields to visit each other. They popped corn, my friend said, and ate apples and talked. They told each other stories. They told each other stories, as I knew myself, that they all had heard before.
The World-Ending Fire
Wendell Berry
A handful of entrepreneurs and developers may get very rich off their ideas, but for the most part it’s the same institutional investors and family funds profiting now off Google or Facebook who once profited off Intel and IBM or, before that, GE and AT&T. The media stories about the turnover of tech moguls hides the fact that the same invisible population of rich people behind them are simply getting richer.
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
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