In a society where everything was set up to make you think that your emotional wellbeing began and ended with your own personal psychodrama, perhaps the simplest, most important thing Mark’s book did was to suggest that, just maybe, mental
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“class does not make people smarter; it produces a small group of people who are deluded about the sources of their good fortune and a large group of people who are deceived about the sources of their misfortune.”
― The 9.9 Percent: The New Aristocracy That Is Entrenching Inequality and Warping Our Culture
― The 9.9 Percent: The New Aristocracy That Is Entrenching Inequality and Warping Our Culture
“Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety. And at such a moment, unable to see and not daring to imagine what the future will now bring forth, one clings to what one knew, or dreamed that one possessed. Yet, it is only when a man is able, without bitterness or self-pity, to surrender a dream he has long possessed that he is set free - he has set himself free - for higher dreams, for greater privileges.”
― Nobody Knows My Name
― Nobody Knows My Name
“Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public.”
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“So long as we believe (in our hearts) that capitalism is bad, we are free to continue to participate in capitalist exchange.”
― Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
― Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
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