In plenty of cultures, older people are revered.
“There is not such thing as "minor" surgery. Minor surgery is surgery someone else has.”
― Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner
― Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner
“This is her freedom. This one. The freedom to be equal to the terrors of the day.”
― The Overstory
― The Overstory
“We need to think with greater complexity, more nuance, less judgment. Fewer knee-jerk reactions to punish and vilify.”
― The Meth Lunches: Food and Longing in an American City
― The Meth Lunches: Food and Longing in an American City
“Maybe nobody cares about you when you are alive, but lots of people take an interest once you are dead.”
― Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner
― Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner
“This is the existential contradiction of the second modernity that defines our conditions of existence: we want to exercise control over our own lives, but everywhere that control is thwarted. Individualization has sent each one of us on the prowl for the resources we need to ensure effective life, but at each turn we are forced to do battle with an economics and politics from whose vantage point we are but ciphers. We live in the knowledge that our lives have unique value, but we are treated as invisible. As the rewards of late-stage financial capitalism slip beyond our grasp, we are left to contemplate the future in a bewilderment that erupts into violence with increasing frequency. Our expectations of psychological self-determination are the grounds upon which our dreams unfold, so the losses we experience in the slow burn of rising inequality, exclusion, pervasive competition, and degrading stratification are not only economic. They slice us to the quick in dismay and bitterness because we know ourselves to be worthy of individual dignity and the right to a life on our own terms.”
― The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
― The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
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