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Stop asking children what they want to “do” when they grow up. By doing so, you center their existence around labor and capital. Labor is not a dream. Ask them what makes them happy. Ask them in what ways do they imagine themselves being happy in the future. Then hush and listen.
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Researchers, action-oriented or not, can turn dangerous when they think of themselves as experts who are competent to design public policies on their own. Discussion, dialogue, and debate are essential to avoid this trap.
Sense and Solidarity
Jean Drèze
It is clear, in Ferenczi’s view, deriving from Freud’s idea of the death instinct, that there is a force inside us, as strong if not stronger than the life instinct, that wants no life, or as little life as possible – that being born is not necessarily a consummation devoutly to be wished, or any kind of unmixed blessing. That we are, in psychoanalytic language, profoundly ambivalent about being born;
The Life You Want
Adam Phillips
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