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being the richest and most powerful empire on Earth has its limits, and we can neither accumulate nor consume our way out of a fragile and interconnected world.
“You don’t leave a can of gasoline where a boy with firebug tendencies can lay hands on it.”
― Guns
― Guns
“Sumner’s mind keeping the peace abroad was connected with freeing the slaves at home. Repeatedly he tried to convince Lincoln that by issuing an emancipation proclamation he could kill Confederate chances of recognition in Europe.”
― Charles Sumner and the Rights of Man
― Charles Sumner and the Rights of Man
“24/7 is a time of indifference, against which the fragility of human life is increasingly inadequate and within which sleep has no necessity or inevitability. In relation to labor, it renders plausible, even normal, the idea of working without pause, without limits.”
― 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
― 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
“What we call patriotism, in other words, is a calculable force which, released by a predictable situation, will animate man in a manner no different from other territorial species.”
― The Territorial Imperative: A Personal Inquiry Into the Animal Origins of Property and Nations
― The Territorial Imperative: A Personal Inquiry Into the Animal Origins of Property and Nations
“One of the many reasons human cultures have long associated sleep with death is that they each demonstrate the continuity of the world in our absence.”
― 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
― 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
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