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“We have become a civilization based on work—not even “productive work” but work as an end and meaning in itself.”
― Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
― Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
“If it sounds like a sheep but looks like a lion, it's probably a lion.”
― Kings of the Wyld
― Kings of the Wyld
“It’s hard to imagine a surer sign that one is dealing with an irrational economic system than the fact that the prospect of eliminating drudgery is considered to be a problem.”
― Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
― Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
“In our rapidly changing society we can count on only two things that will never change. What will never change is the will to change and the fear of change. It is the will to change that motivates us to seek help. It is the fear of change that motivates us to resist the very help we seek. —Harriet Lerner, The Dance of Intimacy”
― The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
― The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
“To imagine the twenty-first-century world being hit with a great plague like the great disease pandemics of the past is fantasy, yet it’s also extremely possible and has happened many times before.”
― The End Is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses
― The End Is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses
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