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Procrastination is the soul rebelling against entrapment.
The Bed of Procrustes
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
__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
I sometimes wonder why anyone is talking about development at all any more, at a moment when the whole edifice is at risk of collapsing unless we throw everything we have into the fight against climate change. Certainly anyone who still thinks development is just a matter of increasing GDP growth – and thereby CO2 emissions – has yet to come to terms with the brutal facts of climate science.
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