“rulers divide the world into worthy and unworthy victims, those we are allowed to pity, such as Ukrainians enduring the hell of modern warfare, and those whose suffering is minimized, dismissed or ignored.” — chris hedges [“the greatest evil is war”]
"familiarity may breed contempt in some areas of human behaviour, but in the field of social ideas it is the touchstone of acceptability." -- john kenneth galbraith
“The problem with aging is not that it's one damn thing after another—it's every damn thing, all at once, all the time.” -- john scalzi ["old man's war"]
"we live in capitalism. its power seems inescapable. so did the divine right of kings. any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings." -- ursula k. le guin
“… NIST databases foreshadow the emergence of a logic that that has now thoroughly pervaded the tech sector: the unswerving belief that everything is data and is there for the taking.” — kate crawford [“atlas of AI”]
"As someone raised to respect self-education, I find it sad that I now shudder when people tell me they have done their “own research,” a sure sign they’ve been sucked through a conspiratorial pipeline and come out the other side covered in hogwash.” — Astra Taylor
"Gender marketing reinforces limitations.” — terry o’reilly [“under the influence“]
"That little bit of a thing that you read through and say "I know all that" and throw on a shelf. It's the thing that the visiting sensei refers to when he says "have you read the book?" about two minutes into the seminar. Don't read it, study it." -- Kim Taylor Sensei
"Error, the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan said, is the site of truth far more than correctness. We are never closer to the real than when we are making mistakes, sometimes especially when we realize we are making them." -- Mark Kingwell
