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“In investigating the lumpings that have shaped societies past and present, we should, I believe, be charitable toward those who merely inherited the classifications that were dominant in their own times. But we should be less patient with those, like Calhoun and Sanger, who pressed to enforce their preferred categories, to encode them in law and make them permanent. Such people are immensely dangerous, and for the health of our public world we need to become alert to the compelling power of lumping: having seen the ways lumping helps us manage information overload and create group solidarity, we should become aware of the temptations it poses to us—to all of us.”
― How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds
― How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds
“The real problem of humanity is the following: We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions and godlike technology. And it is terrifically dangerous, and it is now approaching a point of crisis overall.”
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“Pareciera que en el fondo de todos nosotros hubiese un monstruo. Que sólo espera el momento propicio para salir a la luz y causar estragos.”
― Tiempos recios
― Tiempos recios
“¿Cómo era posible que los gobiernos de Juan José Arévalo y Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán, empeñados en acabar con el feudalismo en Guatemala y convertir al país en una democracia liberal y capitalista, hubieran provocado semejante histeria en la United Fruit y en los Estados Unidos? Que desataran la indignación entre los finqueros guatemaltecos lo podía entender, eran gentes congeladas en el pasado; también comprendía a la Frutera, por supuesto, que nunca antes había pagado impuestos. ¡Pero en Washington! ¿Era ésa la democracia que querían los gringos para América Latina? ¿Ésa la democracia que había postulado Roosevelt con sus discursos de «buena vecindad» con América Latina? ¿Una dictadura militar al servicio de un puñado de latifundistas codiciosos y racistas y de una gran corporación yanqui? ¿Para eso habían bombardeado los sulfatos la ciudad de Guatemala, matando e hiriendo a decenas de inocentes?”
― Tiempos recios
― Tiempos recios
“What if we refused to be railroaded into the false choice between the critical and the uncritical? How might argument and interpretation proceed if critique were no longer our ubiquitous watchword and ever-vigilant watchdog? What other shapes of thought could we imagine? And how else might we venture to read, if we were not ordained to read suspiciously?”
― The Limits of Critique
― The Limits of Critique
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