“How can you know what you want or feel or think—who you are—if you don't know which way history's marionette strings are tugging? [...] People aren't puppets, and to pull a person is to create the conditions for rebellion. Maybe we're more like butterflies, pinned live and wriggling onto history's collage.
If, as I have been convinced, the point of life and the meaning of freedom is to make something with what the world makes of you, then it's necessary to locate those places where history reaches through your self and sticks you to the board.”
― Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World
If, as I have been convinced, the point of life and the meaning of freedom is to make something with what the world makes of you, then it's necessary to locate those places where history reaches through your self and sticks you to the board.”
― Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World
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