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Jan 15, 2026 11:22AM

 
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That is neoliberal democracy in a nutshell: trivial debate over minor issues by parties that basically pursue the same pro-business policies regardless of formal differences and campaign debate. Democracy is permissible as long as the ...more
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“I have come to believe that we desire hope, but what we really need is meaning. Hopelessness arises in dire situations, and being hopeful is not always rational or possible. Meaninglessness, though, is death before death. Reminding someone of the meaning of their life, even if they can’t be cured, can be transformative. Hope and meaning. Two powerful motivating forces in Medicine and in life.”
F. Perry Wilson, How Medicine Works and When It Doesn't: Learning Who to Trust to Get and Stay Healthy

Noam Chomsky
“NC: You’re right, but I think it tells you something very interesting about Western culture. When they went to the concentration camps and were appalled, they did not say, “Let’s save the survivors”; they said, “Let someone else pay for saving the survivors.” IP: Exactly.”
Noam Chomsky, On Palestine

Paul Farmer
“Increasingly, what people with AIDS share are not personal or psychological attributes. They do not share culture or language or a certain racial identity. They do not share sexual preference or an absolute income bracket. What they share, rather, is a social position—the bottom rung of the ladder in inegalitarian societies.”
Paul Farmer, Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues

David Graeber
“Still, most testimonies focus on creativity as a form of defiance—the dogged fortitude with which many attempt to pursue art, or music, or writing, or poetry, serves as an antidote to the pointlessness of their “real” paid work.”
David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

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