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“One of the chief lessons of history is that many of the things that we consider natural and eternal are, in fact, man-made and mutable.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

“... democracy doesn't mean majority rule; rather, it means freedom and equality for all. Democracy is a system that guarantees everyone certain liberties, which even the majority cannot take away.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

“You can store meat in your own pantry or in the belly of your brother. Both have the result of keeping hunger at bay but with very different consequences for the people and for the land which provided that sustenance.”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer, The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World

“In fact, the “monster” in Potawatomi culture is Windigo, who suffers from the illness of taking too much and sharing too little. It is a cannibal, whose hunger is never sated, eating through the world. Windigo thinking jeopardizes the survival of the community by incentivizing individual accumulation far beyond the satisfaction of “enoughness.” Contemporary Windigos who cannibalize life for accumulation of money need their own name.”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer, The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World