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The democracy of riot squads, corrupt politicians, magnate-controlled newspapers and the surveillance state looks as phony and fragile as East Germany did thirty years ago.
PostCapitalism
Paul Mason
For some time now, we have increasingly accepted the idea that we are not the kind of people who can act. This isn’t a failure of will any more than an individual depressed person can ‘snap themselves out of it’ by ‘pulling their socks up’.
Good for Nothing - Mark Fisher
libcom.org
As a [metaphor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphor), the tragedy of the commons should not be taken too literally. The "tragedy" is not in the word's conventional or theatric sense, nor a condemnation of the processes that lead to it. Similarly, Hardin's use of "commons" has frequently been misunderstood, leading him to later remark that he should have titled his work "The Tragedy of the Unregulated Commons".[[22]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons#cite_note-22)[[23]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHardin1998-23)
Tragedy of the Commons
wikipedia.org
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