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We Have Never Been Modern

by Bruno Latour

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(page 9 of 168)
""...The...symmetry between the dismantling of the wall...and the end of limitless Nature is invisible only to the rich Western democracies...various manifestations of socialism destroyed both their peoples and their ecosystems, whereas the powers of the North and the West have been able to save their peoples and some of their countrysides by destroying the rest of the world and reducing its people to abject poverty."" — Feb 04, 2021 03:52PM

Jan 31, 2021 09:07PM

Nicole’s Quotes

“progressive social change cannot be made without a leadership ready to take risks.”
― Jane McAlevey, Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell): My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement

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“My point, once again, is not that those ancient people told literal stories and we are now smart enough to take them symbolically, but that they told them symbolically and we are now dumb enough to take them literally.”
― John Dominic Crossan, Who Is Jesus? Answers to Your Questions About the Historical Jesus

tags: mythology, religion

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“… got to give it all up, the pain, the hurt, the anger and make room for lovely things to rush in and fill you full.”
― Toni Cade Bambara, The Salt Eaters

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“Yes, the long memory is the most radical idea in this country. It is the loss of that long memory which deprives our people of that connective flow of thoughts and events that clarifies our vision, not of where we're going, but where we want to go.”
― Utah Phillips

tags: memory, where-we-want-to-go

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“Every good educator knows that true teaching is to teach kids how to ask the right questions.”
― Utah Phillips

tags: educators

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