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The tight spot of a revolutionary in the 2020s and coming decades is another: we are alone in this. We have no reliable friends in the capitalist classes. To say this is not to suggest that a united front of the forces of the climate revolution would sail to victory; to the contrary, it is to take the measure of the powers driving the world into unliveable temperatures, and to face the reality – ‘bleak but clear’ – that any path to survival runs through their defeat.
Overshoot
Wim Carton, Andreas Malm
the quadrant model is an attempt to represent the full complexity of the social realities addressed by the human sciences that can be applied in the study of education, which must account at least for the interplay of: individual agency and psychology; cultural/hermeneutic reproduction, communion and transmission; social systems and institutional structures; and the natural realities of the body and biosphere.
Education in a Time Between Worlds
Zachary Stein
When you need encouragement, think of the qualities the people around you have: this one’s energy, that one’s modesty, another’s generosity, and so on. Nothing is as encouraging as when virtues are visibly embodied in the people around us, when we’re practically showered with them.
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
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