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As a term of political and business rhetoric that conceals its financial origins in a vocabulary of participatory cooperation, stakeholder belongs to an age of heightening inequality, true to its 1930s origins. Like other phrases derived from gambling and finance that have migrated into democratic politics—the appropriately gruesome phrase “skin in the game” comes to mind— stakeholder conflates access with rights, obscuring hierarchies of power under the veneer of collaboration.
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John Patrick Leary
This sudden groundswell of people who have lost their memories today is no coincidence . . . They are here to tell us something. And believe me, one day, very soon, the majority of people will start returning to the past of their own accord, they’ll start “losing” their memories willingly. The time is coming when more and more people will want to hide in the cave of the past, to turn back. And not for happy reasons, by the way. We need to be ready with the bomb shelter of the past. Call it the time shelter, if you will.
Time Shelter
Georgi Gospodinov
the principle of self-acceptance – you learn not to rate or evaluate yourself, but to appreciate that you are made up of hundreds of different facets that are constantly changing, and defy any sort of generalized, global assessment of yourself based on these.