Whether consciously or not, the physician and patient are enacting a ritual of domination and submission, much like the kowtowing required in the presence of a Chinese emperor.
Barbara Ehrenreich
Category: value
#120 – Lupton on Charity
Giving to those in need what they could be gaining from their own initiative may well be the kindest way to destroy people.
Robert Lupton
#119 – Bastiat on Education
All monopolies are detestable, but the worst of all is the monopoly of education.
F. Bastiat
#118 – DEBS on WORK AND MONEY
I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence.
Eugene Debs
#113 – ISTVAN on Society
The American Dream has become a death sentence of drudgery, consumerism, and fatalism: a garage sale where the best of the human spirit is bartered away for comfort, obedience and trinkets. It’s unequivocally absurd.
Zoltan Istvan
#112 – Martenson on Money
Real wealth is tangible things produced with tangible effort. Loans made out of thin-air ‘money’ require no effort and are entirely ephemeral. But if those loans are used to acquire real ownership of real assets, then something has been exchanged for nothing and one party is getting screwed.
Chris Martenson
#110 Wallman on Stuff…
Overwhelmed, and suffocating from stuff, we are suffering from an anxiety that I call Stuffocation.
James Wallman
#108 – Nolan on Reading
Why bother reading something that you won’t remember?
Jonathan Nolan
#106 – Bassey Johnson on Advice
A person is wise if he listens to millions of advice and doesn’t implement any of it.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#103 – Graeber on Work
We have become a civilization based on work—not even ‘productive work’ but work as an end and meaning in itself.
David Graeber
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