I’d done this before and here I was doing it again: retreating from the present into a past that gives me comfort.
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I’d done this before and here I was doing it again: retreating from the present into a past that gives me comfort.
“The direction has not been to stop but to accelerate change. The Market has become a global power — that is an unprecedented transformation. The “great history” has been an infamous history of oppression — domestic and foreign — and one ethnic and nationalist conflict after another. Advances of a democratic nature — so threatening to the market — are finite compared to the ecological and social ravages so evident since the Industrial Revolution.”
Rikki Ducornet