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When we “forget ourselves,” it is easy to write. We are not standing there, stiff as a soldier, our entire ego shimmied into every capital “I.” When we forget ourselves, when we let go of being good and settle into just being a writer, we begin to have the experience of writing through us. We retire as the self-conscious author and become something else—the vehicle for self-expression.
The Right to Write
Julia Cameron
The idea that the personal is distinct from the political became one of the core principles of classical liberal ideology, which holds that the nation-state is something good and necessary, but that its power must be limited to allow personal freedom. __The personal/political distinction was thus originally made primarily with the state in mind: our 'personal' lives should be left alone by the state, taxes should be as low as possible, and state interference in matters of personal choice should be avoided.__ This certainly makes sense from the perspective of bourgeois white men who want to protect their private wealth from the state and treat their families and employees however they like - but __as feminists have shown, it is not a very helpful distinction for those who are less privileged.__
Prefigurative Politics
Paul Raekstad and Sofia Saio Gradin
Although Smith insisted the government should avoid ‘perpetual monopoly,’ it would be nearly another century before Britain fully abolished the East India Company’s monopoly privileges. __The 19th century – a purported high period of British free trade – was really a time of ongoing government-sanctioned trade monopolies.__
The Unknowers
Linsey McGoey
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