Jul 25
The world is something that we make
From today’s Book of the Day, I have chosen the following quote for a deeper analysis. “The ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently.”— David Graeber, The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy The sentence “The ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we…
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