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“Direct action is, ultimately, the defiant insistence on acting as if one is already free.”

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David Graeber is an American anthropologist known for his research on economic anthropology, anarchism, and critical theory. His work explores the issues of economic relationships and power structures in modern society. more

“Student loans are destroying the imagination of youth. If there’s a way of a society committing mass suicide, what better way than to take all the youngest, most energetic, creative, joyous people in your society and saddle them with, like $50,000 of debt so they have to be slaves? There goes your music. There goes your culture. There goes everything new that would pop out. And in a way, this is what’s happened to our society. We’re a society that has lost any ability to incorporate the interesting, creative and eccentric people.”

“The failure to think positively can weigh on a cancer patient like a second disease.”

Thinking Disease Patient Cancer Positively Think Positively Cancer Patients

Book:Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America

Source: Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America

“Human intellectual progress, such as it has been, results from our long struggle to see things 'as they are,' or in the most universally comprehensible way, and not as projections of our own emotions. Thunder is not a tantrum in the sky, disease is not a divine punishment, and not every death or accident results from witchcraft. What we call the Enlightenment and hold on to only tenuously, by our fingernails, is the slow-dawning understanding that the world is unfolding according to its own inner algorithms of cause and effect, probability and chance, without any regard for human feelings.”

Source: Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America

“Transcendent Oneness does not require self-examination, self-help, or self-work. It requires self-loss.”

Doe Self Helping Loss Self Help Oneness Working It Examination Transcendent Self-examination

Book:Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America

Source: Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America

“In fact, there is clear evidence of black intellectual superiority: in 1984, 92 percent of blacks voted to retire Ronald Reagan, compared to only 36 percent of whites.”

Facts Black Clear Intellectual Percent Evidence Retiring Superiority Intellectual Superiority

Book:WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES

Source: WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES

“If you can attribute your success entirely to your own mental effort, to your own attitude, to some spiritual essence that you have that is better than other peoples, then that must feel pretty good.”

Ifs Feels Spiritual Effort Attitude Essence Attributes

Author:Barbara Ehrenreich

“I think of painting without subject matter as music without words.”

Thinking Matter Subjects Painting Subject Matter

Author:Kenneth Noland

“With artists of my own generation there was at first no group identity - and never a clique.”

Firsts Artist My Own Generations Groups Identity Clique Group Identity

Author:Kenneth Noland

“In the '50s Morris Louis and I were not known, David Smith and Helen Frankenthaler were not much known.”

Known Helen Morris

Author:Kenneth Noland

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