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Warning that a slippery slope may lead to ruin does not imply believing in historical fate, or in the futility of political action. It is an argument of *conditional inevitability*: __if we do nothing, then such is the fate that awaits us, but we can still act to evade it.__
The Ungovernable Society
Grégoire Chamayou
Development will only ever make sense if we begin to change the rules that produce poverty in the first place – if we begin to dismantle the architecture of upward redistribution that defines the world system.
The analytic experience has to be used by the patient to create something of her own with a view to future growth. Again, as with Freud, new possibilities are envisaged by the individual. The destination, the cure, is the individual’s new-found possibilities.
On Getting Better
Adam Phillips
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