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Americans are good at responding to a crisis and then going home to let another crisis brew both because we imagine that the finality of death can be achieved in life—it’s called happily ever after in personal life, saved in politics and religion—and because we tend to think of political engagement as something for emergencies rather than, as people in many other countries (and Americans at other times) have imagined it, as a part and even a pleasure of everyday life.
Hope in the Dark
Rebecca Solnit
Managerialism has become the pretext for creating a new covert form of feudalism, where wealth and position are allocated not on economic but political grounds—or rather, where every day it’s more difficult to tell the difference between what can be considered “economic” and what is “political.”
Bullshit Jobs
David Graeber
14. How much decisional power to leave to King Louis XVI was the most divisive issue among the deputies of the French National Constituent Assembly, who gathered in the summer of 1789 to produce the nation’s first written constitution. (It was adopted in 1791.) The antiroyalist revolutionaries seated themselves to the left of the presiding officer, while the supporters of the monarchy gathered to his right. Worth noting is that the Monarchiens (“Monarchists”), also called Democratic Royalists, were advocating a model similar to the British one (a constitutional monarchy with a two-chamber parliament): that is, both sides sought legitimacy in democratic values.
Capitalism on Edge
Albena Azmanova;
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