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07.10.2025 22:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

"What would happen if we stopped acting as if the primordial form of work is laboring at a production line, or wheat field, or iron foundry, or even in an office cubicle, and instead started from a mother, a teacher, or a caregiver? . We might be forced to conclude that the real business of human life is not contributing toward something called the economy but the fact that we are all, and have always been, projects of mutual creation." . - David Graeber

One of David Graeber's most interesting pieces was from 2013 called - 'A practical utopians guide to the coming collapse.'

Here is an extract.

06.10.2025 21:44 — 👍 245    🔁 85    💬 2    📌 6

I need more “late bloomer” stories! Tell me about the things that you did at 50+ that you never thought you’d do or finally got to do!

And if you have examples that aren’t you, bring ‘em!

06.10.2025 19:38 — 👍 292    🔁 51    💬 98    📌 9

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29.09.2025 16:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Learning in school is not enough. You must continue to teach yourself throughout your life. Study history, read myths, memorize poems, get acquainted with the greatest philosophers & writers. In an age when tech is cooking many brains, we need an army of autodidacts.

25.09.2025 19:29 — 👍 430    🔁 113    💬 12    📌 3

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24.09.2025 23:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I know it sounds mad but if you had regular exposure to trees and sunlight and started reading again for pleasure, it would heal you.

06.09.2025 18:29 — 👍 473    🔁 89    💬 15    📌 7

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04.09.2025 17:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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29.08.2025 17:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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27.08.2025 21:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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25.08.2025 15:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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Long's Park #lancasterpa

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Ware Center #lancasterpa

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21.08.2025 16:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Long's Park #lancasterpa

20.08.2025 17:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Lancaster County Central Park #lancasterpa

20.08.2025 15:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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20.08.2025 14:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

From Phil Kaye's book, Date & Time: bookshop.org/a/862/9781943735365

#poem #books #writing

28.07.2025 13:07 — 👍 40    🔁 9    💬 3    📌 0

I've seen some posts suggesting day drinking to deal with today's news, and I want to offer some suggestions for how to get through today if you don't want to drink, or use drugs. I'm going to suggest these things as someone who hasn't drank or taken drugs in over 9 years. I hope they help.

03.07.2025 19:10 — 👍 935    🔁 444    💬 32    📌 60

Films: Lady Bird, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, There Will Be Blood, Get Out, Shiva Baby

Films: Casablanca, The Great Dictator, Singin' in the Rain, 12 Angry Men, Some Like It Hot

Films: North by Northwest, Rear Window, Psycho, The Birds, Notorious

Films: Mean Streets, The Godfather, The French Connection, Chinatown, Easy Rider

Spent a lot of time making this too-long guide to getting good at watching cinema guide, which maybe less than 10 people will read through

12.05.2025 14:18 — 👍 102    🔁 19    💬 8    📌 3

Some years ago I wrote a piece called “Army of Altruists” where I tried to grapple with the power of right-wing populism, especially with the way that “we hate the liberal elite” and “support the troops” seemed to have a very similar, deep resonance, even to be a way of saying the same thing. What I ended up concluding is that working class people hate the cultural elite more than they do the economic elite—and mind you, they don’t like the economic elite very much. . But they hate the cultural elite because they see them as a group of people who have grabbed all the jobs where one gets paid to do good in the world. If you want a career pursuing any form of value other than monetary value, if you want to work in journalism, and pursue truth, or in the arts, and pursue beauty, or in some charity or international NGO or the UN, and pursue social justice—well, even assuming you can acquire the requisite degrees, for the first few years they won’t even pay you. So you’re supposed to live in New York or some other expensive city on no money for a few years after graduation. . Who else can do that except children of the elite? So if you’re a fork-lift operator or even a florist, you know your kid is unlikely to ever become a CEO, but you also know there’s no way in a million years they’ll ever become drama critic for the New Yorker or an international human rights lawyer. The only way they could get paid a decent salary to do something noble, something that’s not just for the money, is to join the army. So saying “support the troops” is a way of saying “fuck you” to the cultural elite who think you’re a bunch of knuckle-dragging cavemen, but who also make sure your kid would never be able to join their club of rich do-gooders even if he or she was twice as smart as any of them. . - David Graeber

This is a long quote, but with the Democrats and Liberal-Centrists totally failing to understand right-wing populism and mottos like 'support our troops,' the quote is worth reading through.

20.06.2025 21:41 — 👍 85    🔁 20    💬 2    📌 1

It's been about 10 years since I started my career as a publishing researcher in philosophy. A career review thing here at LSE prompted me to reflect on how well I think I have done relative to my actual ambitions. I wrote up the self-evaluation and shared it.

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20.06.2025 06:45 — 👍 135    🔁 12    💬 13    📌 10

I think the concept of "introversion" impeded my development as a young person, and I think we need to do away with the introvert/extrovert distinction. It made me feel like socializing and social graces were the province of a certain kind of person that I was not

29.05.2025 15:59 — 👍 113    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 4