Mukur Biswas

“... common sense is the one thing that will certainly be wrong.”
― George Friedman, The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century

“If there are so many successful public enterprises, why do we rarely hear about them? It is partly because of the nature of reporting, whether journalistic or academic. Newspapers tend to report bad things – wars, natural disasters, epidemics, famines, crime, bankruptcy, etc. While it is natural and necessary for newspapers to focus on these events, the journalistic habit tends to present the public with the bleakest possible view of the world. In the case of SOEs, journalists and academics usually investigate them only when things go wrong – inefficiency, corruption or negligence.Well-performing SOEs attract relatively little attention in the same way that a peaceful and productive day in the life of a ‘model citizen’ is unlikely to make front-page news. There”
― Ha-Joon Chang, Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism

“One grows out of pity when it's useless.”
― Albert Camus, The Plague

“Man always becomes other. Man is the animal who continually differs from himself.”
― Georges Bataille, The Bataille Reader