Join 📚Jof’S Book Highlights
A batch of the best highlights from what Jophin's read, .
So keep this refuge in mind: the back roads of your self. Above all, no strain and no stress. Be straightforward. Look at things like a man, like a human being, like a citizen, like a mortal. And among the things you turn to, these two: i. That things have no hold on the soul. They stand there unmoving, outside it. Disturbance comes only from within—from our own perceptions. ii. That everything you see will soon alter and cease to exist. Think of how many changes you’ve already seen. “The world is nothing but change. Our life is only perception.”
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
Legislatures and executive branches transformed bureaucracies basically into policing bodies, whose role became to oversee service provision rather than to provide it themselves. This abandonment provoked a response among organizations that advocated on behalf of certain categories of state clients: the elderly, mothers, children, and so forth. It also encouraged the formation of new groups that, lacking an advocacy past, were designed solely to get contracts and the jobs that came with them. __To do business with the state, the organizations had to be formally incorporated, so they became non-profits. Thus, for different reasons, non-profits stepped up to fill a service void.__
The Revolution Will Not Be Funded
Incite!
Lauderdale argued that scarcity does not necessarily arise from the
exhaustion of natural resources. It is often intentionally created by constructing
gates and by forcefully expelling people from the land. In other words, __land,
water and food are artificially made scarce so that they can function to
augment the ‘private riches’ of their owners expressed in monetary terms (as ... well as the wealth of nation that comprises the sum total of individual riches).__
Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism
Kohei Saito
...catch up on these, and many more highlights
Readwise