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This conversion that Brown describes is a conversion of language; our speech becomes something we think of ourselves as investing in, and as simply and solely instrumental in our economic success; it serves our ambitions for personal gain. And so what we might have thought of as a shared language is a language calculated to make the shared itself a profit-making enterprise (the political being the official shared world). __If language itself is a commodity – something to invest in – what will it then be unable, or unwilling, to do?__
On Wanting to Change
Adam Phillips
we are more likely to look for and find a positive view of the things we’re stuck with than of the things we’re not.
Stumbling on Happiness
Daniel Gilbert
__How we distinguish between social roles and practical identities is an expression of how we distinguish between the realm of necessity and the realm of freedom.__ Under democratic socialism, the question of how to negotiate these distinctions is at the center of political deliberation.
This Life
Martin Hägglund
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