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There is a time for any fledgling artist where one’s taste exceeds one’s abilities. The only way to get through this period is to make things anyway.

Wanting praise, not history, the warlords burnt the books in which the poor and powerless might learn what power is.

Decir que una empresa se dedica al trading de commodities suena mucho mejor q explicar q su forma de lucrarse son los intercambios especulativos q provocan variaciones en los precios internacionales de alimentos y condenan a millones de personas a la hambruna, tal y como pasó tras la crisis de 2008,cuando los mercados salieron del sector inmobiliario en caída libre para especular con alimentos, elevando así su precio

he had learned to tolerate the sometimes-painful present by living in the future

«A drastic reduction in purchasing power of the richest would therefore in itself have a substantial impact on the reduction of emissions at global level.»
Thomas Piketty

No commonwealth was left and no justice, only the will of the wealthy.

En la actualidad, toda la prensa salmón y la gran mayoría de las secciones económicas de los medios generalistas defienden que no hay más alternativa que la neoliberal. Thatcher debe de estar orgullosa: la batalla ideológica que ella misma abanderó ha calado de tal forma en el imaginario social que los sesgos ideológicos por ella impulsados pasan totalmente desapercibidos o son clasificados como errores periodísticos

They had the rare kind of friendship that allowed for a great deal of privacy within it. One of the reasons they had become such good friends originally was because she had not insisted he tell his sad stories to satisfy her own curiosity.

El sesgo de endogrupo es la tendencia a favorecer o valorar d forma positiva las acciones o hechos del grupo al q creemos pertenecer o la tendencia a confrontar las q provienen d la parte opuesta.El algoritmo detecta el grupo al que pertenecemos y nos muestra aquello con lo q tenemos más probabilidad de interactuar.Ellos ganan más dinero, la sociedad se polariza más y la manipulación se vuelve más sencilla y efectiva

Otro sesgo protagonista de la sociedad actual e impulsado por los algoritmos es el de endogrupo. Para dividir a la sociedad en dos y enfrentarla, o para mantenerte más tiempo en la cámara de eco generando beneficios, se crea el «ellos» (o exogrupo) y el «nosotros» (o endogrupo).
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Profoundly disturbing moral choices are sanitized, made cute, made safe. The passionately conceived ideas of the great story-tellers are copied, stereotyped, reduced to toys, molded in bright-colored plastic, advertised, sold, broken, junked, replaceable, interchangeable.

Commodified fantasy takes no risks: it invents nothing, but imitates and trivializes. It proceeds by depriving the old stories of their intellectual and ethical complexity, turning their action to violence, their actors to dolls, and their truth- telling to sentimental platitude. Heroes brandish their swords, lasers, wands, as mechanically as combine harvesters, reaping profits. (...)

«Promise me you’ll always forgive me, and I promise I’ll always forgive you.» These, of course, are the kinds of vows young people feel comfortable making when they have no idea what life has in store for them.

The richest 1% emit thirty times more than the poorest 50% of the human population. Why? It’s not only because they consume more stuff than everybody else, but also because the stuff they consume is more energy-intensive: huge houses, big cars, private jets, frequent flights, long-distance holidays, luxury imports, and so on.

The richest 10% of the world’s population are responsible for almost half the world’s total lifestyle carbon emissions. In other words, the global climate crisis is being driven largely by the global rich. And things become even more lopsided as we climb the income ladder.

«Nunca discutas con un ignorante. Te hará descender a su nivel y ahí te vencerá por experiencia.»
Mark Twain

All times are changing times, but ours is one of massive, rapid moral and mental transformation. Archetypes turn into millstones, large simplicities get complicated, chaos becomes elegant, and what everybody knows is true turns out to be what some people used to think.

She had, he thought, one of the world’s great laughs. The kind of laugh where a person didn’t feel that he was being laughed at. The kind of laugh that was an invitation: I cordially invite you to join in this matter that I find amusing.

the only true fence against the world and all its dangers is a thorough knowledge of it

Alongside you, Marcus thought, going back to his work, but still not fully among you.

«Always remember, mine Sadie: life is very long, unless it is not.» Sadie knew this to be a tautology, but it also happened to be true.

We humans are evolved for sharing, co-operation and community. We flourish in contexts that enable us to express these values, and we suffer in contexts that stifle them.

The way one does research into nonexistent history is to tell the story and find out what happened.Even if we are present at some historic event, do we comprehend it—can we even remember it—until we can tell it as a story? For events in times or places outside our own experience, we have nothing to go on but the stories other people tell us.Past events exist, after all, only in memory, which is a form of imagination.

Alberto Brandolini publicó el siguiente tuit: «The bullshit asimmetry: the amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it».
El comentario fue bautizado como el principio de asimetría de Brandolini, también llamado el principio de asimetría de la estupidez.

she had the kind of cleverness that verged on the unkind

When people live in a fair, caring society, where everyone has equal access to social goods, they don’t have to spend their time worrying about how to cover their basic needs day to day – they can enjoy the art of living. And instead of feeling they are in constant competition with their neighbours, they can build bonds of social solidarity.

La financiarización supone la expansión del sector financiero mediante la creación de nuevos activos (deuda) y nuevas formas de inversión que permiten extraer beneficios financieros directamente de la renta personal de los trabajadores, lo que Lapavitsas denomina la nueva forma de expropiación financiera del salario.Es decir, la financiarización confiere al sector financiero una mayor capacidad de captura del salario

We keep buying more stuff in order to feel better about ourselves, but it never works because the benchmark against which we measure the good life is pushed perpetually out of reach by the rich (and, these days, by social media influencers). We find ourselves spinning in place on an exhausting treadmill of needless over-consumption.