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If there is one thing we can draw from where we are now and where we were then, it is that the unimaginable is ordinary, that __the way forward is almost never a straight line you can glance down but a convoluted path of surprises, gifts, and afflictions you prepare for by accepting your blind spots as well as your intuitions.__
Hope in the Dark
Rebecca Solnit
The concepts of powers, drives, consciousness, and how they interconnect and interact give us the basic building blocks we need to understand the ability of human beings to consciously act in ways that satisfy their drives within and through historically evolving social formations.
Prefigurative Politics
Paul Raekstad and Sofia Saio Gradin
The idea that liberal societies are bound together by philosoph
ical beliefs seems to me ludicrous. What binds societies together are
common vocabularies and common hopes. The vocabularies are, typ
ically, parasitic on the hopes - in the sense that the principal function of
the vocabularies is to tell stories about future outcomes which compen
sate for present sacrifices.
Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity
Richard Rorty
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