Student loans are destroying the imagination of youth. If there’s a way of a society committing mass suicide, what better way than to take all the youngest, most energetic, creative, joyous people in your society and saddle them with, like $50,000 of debt so they have to be slaves? There goes your music. There goes your culture. There goes everything new that would pop out. And in a way, this is what’s happened to our society. We’re a society that has lost any ability to incorporate the interesting, creative and eccentric people.
Anarchism and anthropology go well together because anthropologists know that a society without a state is possible because so many exist. - David Graeber
Anarchism and anthropology go well together because anthropologists know that a society without a state is possible because so many exist.
- David Graeber
Neoliberalism isn't an economic program - it's a political program designed to produce hopelessness and kill any future alternatives. - David Graeber
Neoliberalism isn't an economic program - it's a political program designed to produce hopelessness and kill any future alternatives.
Debt is the most effective way to take a relation of violent subordination and make the victims feel that it's their fault. - David Graeber
Debt is the most effective way to take a relation of violent subordination and make the victims feel that it's their fault.
As it turns out, we don't "all" have to pay our debts. Only some of us do. - David Graeber
As it turns out, we don't "all" have to pay our debts. Only some of us do.
There seems a general rule that, the more obviously one’s work benefits other people, the less one is likely to be paid for it. - David Graeber
There seems a general rule that, the more obviously one’s work benefits other people, the less one is likely to be paid for it.
It's a difficult business, creating a new, alternative civilization. - David Graeber
It's a difficult business, creating a new, alternative civilization.
Aristotle [would] probably conclude most Americans, for all intents and purposes, are slaves. - David Graeber
Aristotle [would] probably conclude most Americans, for all intents and purposes, are slaves.
We have become a plague upon ourselves and upon the Earth. It is cosmically unlikely that the developed world will choose to end its orgy of fossil e… - David Graeber
We have become a plague upon ourselves and upon the Earth. It is cosmically unlikely that the developed world will choose to end its orgy of fossil e…
Direct action is, ultimately, the defiant insistence on acting as if one is already free. - David Graeber
Direct action is, ultimately, the defiant insistence on acting as if one is already free.
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