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“Art is in the eye of the beholder, and everyone will have their own interpretation.”
― Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
― Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
“Chapter 10:
"To understand the realities of power whether in modern or ancient societies is acknowledge this gap between what elites claim they can do and what they are actually able to do.
As the sociologist Phillip Abrams pointed out long ago failure to make this distinction has led social scientists up countless blind allies because the state is not the reality which stands behind the mask of political practice. It is itself the mask which prevents our seeing political practice as it is.”
― The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"To understand the realities of power whether in modern or ancient societies is acknowledge this gap between what elites claim they can do and what they are actually able to do.
As the sociologist Phillip Abrams pointed out long ago failure to make this distinction has led social scientists up countless blind allies because the state is not the reality which stands behind the mask of political practice. It is itself the mask which prevents our seeing political practice as it is.”
― The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
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