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“The Matrix is a reflection of our times, or at least our anxieties. It reveals our fear of a mechanization so complete, of a commodification of our bodies and enslavement of our minds so successful, that we are no longer even aware of it, having been made oblivious to our reality by the very technologies that rule us.”
― Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails
― Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails
“When the world you know is out of reach, nothing is more welcome than a measurable reminder that it still exists.”
― To Be Taught, If Fortunate
― To Be Taught, If Fortunate
“And worst of all, we knew this could happen. We've been impotently worrying about what a solar flare could do to electronic infrastructure since the 1900s. But my generation was so preoccupied with fixing the mess left by the unaddressed-and-fully-known-about environmental disaster of the previous generation that we committed the same sin of criminal procrastination against yours. I ask no forgiveness for this, because we deserve none.”
― To Be Taught, If Fortunate
― To Be Taught, If Fortunate
“In important ways, we resemble hamsters on their spinning wheels: no matter how fast we run, we are not really going anywhere. We might well conclude that the machines aren’t slaving away for our benefit; at times it even seems like we’re working furiously to maintain them.”
― Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails
― Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails
“The black magic of banking destabilizes market societies. It massively amplifies wealth creation during the good times and wealth destruction during the bad times, constantly skewing the distribution of power and money. But to be fair, bankers are just that: massive amplifiers. The root causes of market society’s fundamental instability lie elsewhere, buried deeply in the weird nature of two peculiar commodities: human labour and money.”
― Talking to My Daughter
― Talking to My Daughter
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Rishikesh’s 2025 Year in Books
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