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The use only of our bodies for work or love or pleasure, or even for combat, sets us free again in the wilderness, and we exult. But a man with a machine and inadequate culture – such as I was when I made my pond – is a pestilence. He shakes more than he can hold.
The World-Ending Fire
Wendell Berry
What if you could actualize the romantic, “buy less, live more” critique of consumerism with a simple pill? Instead of being dumped into the desert of the real, what if the “red pill” took you into a shopping-free paradise? How would you advertise a pill that essentially works as an antidote to advertising?
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Sociologist Jens Beckert notes that finance always needs to craft stories about the steps that will transform the present into a specific financial future. Synthetic, made-up assets are constructed through a process of “narrative transformation”(37) that, in turn, transforms socially the participants in the economic activity related to these assets.
The Ghostchain. (Or taking things for what they are)
paletten.net
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