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In pre-partition, undivided Punjab, for example, between 1881 and 1941, the Hindu population dropped from 43.8 per cent to 29.1 per cent, due largely to the conversion of the subordinated castes to Islam, Sikhism and Christianity.
Annihilation of Caste
B.R. Ambedkar
On a very broad view of cultural evolution, technical developments have accumulated not so much in ingenuity as along a different axis of the man-tool relationship. It is a question of the distribution of energy, skill, and intelligence between the two. In the primitive relation of man to tool, the balance of these is in favor of man; with the inception of a “machine age” the balance swings definitively in favor of the tool.
Stone Age Economics
Marshall Sahlins and David Graeber
In a world so tightly bound up with notions of aspiration and self-exploration we are nonetheless trained to believe that fulfilling work experiences are a right and that the inability to secure such a job should be something to be embarrassed about. I sit here as the most privileged of workers. Secure in the comfort zone of my sofa and free of the diversions of the office, I have had a productive working/ writing day. I feel like myself because it’s through my writing that I feel that I am able to find myself. But who I am and what I am constructed of is not of my own making. It is the product of a world that frees me up and ties me down.
The Experience Society
Steven Miles
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