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“What distinguishes the way a caring family or state institution treats a child from the way an investor would, if they’re both primarily concerned with the child’s future success? An investor may want an asset to achieve its full potential, but the investor doesn’t particularly care whether that kid is happy while they do it. A caring parent, on the other hand, balances an interest in a child’s future achievement with the child’s present wellbeing.”
― Malcolm Harris, Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials

“As in other industries, the recruitment process has become a lot easier (cheaper) for employers and a lot more expensive for would be employees. A demo with a new sound or a solid audition isn’t good enough. Artists are now expected to arrive with a market-ready brand and audience, saving their corporate overlords the makeover expense. Building a brand is no longer the purview of slick besuited experts; it’s the individual responsibility of every voice that wants to “make it.”
― Malcolm Harris, Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials

“Above all, [Averintsev] argued, do not distort reality. Facing the past was one thing; reinventing it was quite another. “Christ tells people to return from the imagined world to reality and from the imagined self to one’s actual self. A return to God is possible from any real place - however shameful and disgusting, but not from an imagined one - because we are not there. An imagined self in an imagined world cannot start a journey toward God.”
― Arkady Ostrovsky, The Invention of Russia: From Gorbachev's Freedom to Putin's War

“I was also aware of the fact that in the black community, respectability politics was often seen as being at odds with what it meant to be "authentically black." To me, there was not such thing as being authentically black. OF course, being seen as "authentically white" wasn't something my white peers had to concern themselves with.”
― Zachary Wood, Uncensored