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“Human engagements with the biosphere are always strongly conditioned by the types of social relationships and social systems that people form among themselves”. This is from Bookchin, 1992. And it’s so damn true.

Their happiness is entirely derived from their inability to imagine things otherwise, or to project themselves into the future in any way at all.

Love the way these guys basically have a 700 page book arguing that making sweeping declarative statements about things is reductionist and obscures the intricate complexity of human choices, but they still make the occasional sweeping declarative statement. (Because we cannot just look, we are always looking to find meaning.)