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There's a faint stirring of recognition latent and inherent in the fantasy, a sort of loose and loosely politicized sense of being betrayed or simply abandoned by the systems or institutions that might have prevented the bad thing from happening, and so kept you from having to enter Vigilante Mode.
How Will the Golden Age of “Making It Worse” End?
defector.com
Becoming a parent and engaging in the grueling work of caring for another human has brought me to the visceral realization that what this world is lacking — what we actually need most — is each other. It sounds hippie-ish and obvious, but as McKibben hints at, it’s going to become ever more serious and tangible. We are relational creatures designed to live with the physical, practical support and fellowship of other people, be it family, friends, built villages and communities, and chosen families.
The Friendship Problem
Rosie Spinks
The disaster of history is the incessant pacification of all that resists. In fact, we have no interest in producing something that would only be a new program to police straying bodies, proliferate “proper” images of thought, or peddle updated categories of surveillable subjects. Philosophy, as we understand it, is the conceptual proliferation of theoretical weapons aimed at the order of things. Anything else is mere collaboration.
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