“Welcome to the anti-meritocratic world, this world. What are you going to do about it? Will you stand back and watch while cronyism, nepotism, the old school tie, the private club, the right university, the right accent, the right background, the right secret society, the right religion, the right family, destroy merit so that their chosen ones can prosper at your expense. It’s time to smash the conspiracy. Break up all the mechanisms that allow privileged groups within society to rig the system in their favour and penalise anyone who doesn’t belong to their insidious cliques.”
Source: The Meritocracy Party
“If you are more avoidantly attached, emotional intimacy is often seen as something you simultaneously want but fear. Many who are more avoidantly attached are drawn to the intensity and newness of the early stages of a relationship. Yet, they often start pumping the brakes when the relationship becomes more emotionally intimate.”
Source: The Anxious-Avoidant Trap: Overcome the Push and Pull of Different Attachment Styles in Your Relationship and Build Lasting Connection
“This longstanding bipartisan revolving door between government and business reflects the inconvenient realities of life in a capitalistic democratic republic. On the one hand, when work- ing well, this revolving door allows businesses and government to draw on talented, ethical individuals from the private and public sectors to serve the interests of both shareholders and citizens. On the other hand, this revolving door can lead to corrosive cronyism and corruption that eats away at the integrity of both business and government as narrow interests are served, to the detriment of shareholders and citizens.”
Source: The Capitalist and the Activist: Corporate Social Activism and the New Business of Change
“Before you say brother to someone, make sure he's not a sister.”
“English does not distinguish between arrogant-up (irreverence toward the temporarily powerful) and arrogant-down (directed at the small guy).”
Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
“I’m left doing all the unskilled labor myself, which is exactly when you realize there’s nothing unskilled about labor.”
Source: Anarchy and Old Dogs
“Probablemente uno de los motivos por los que fui una niña lectora era porque tenía que llenar todas las horas en que mi madre trabajaba”
Source: Yeguas exhaustas
“La violencia es lo real. Lo simbólico, aun participando de esa violencia, es resignificable.
Si las palabras son unívocas, toda esta posibilidad de resignificación y de ocupación del significado se pierde.”
Source: Lenguaje inclusivo y exclusión de clase
“les exige a ellos que, más que trabajadores, sean anfitriones de espacios que no poseen”
Source: Estuve aquí y me acordé de nosotros: Una historia sobre turismo, trabajo y clase
“Cuando subimos a nuestro feed fotos de las vacaciones en un carrusel tan pretendidamente casual como cautivador, o cuando vamos a una ciudad y hacemos un tiktok con lo que nos evoca ese destino, en el fondo estamos enviando postales. Estamos autentificando el destino. Nos convertimos en coautores, no pagados, del folleto turístico.”
Source: Estuve aquí y me acordé de nosotros: Una historia sobre turismo, trabajo y clase