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Monthly Archives: January 2007

To be free

He could not, could not turn away from this desire: to have the troubling of responsibility, the fretting with money, over and done with; to be free, to be carefree where success was not measured by accumulation, and there was use for the vitality still in him.
–Tillie Olsen, Tell Me a Riddle
More personally profound to [...]

Optimism, and climate, control, and craziness

To the 2007 Edge question What Are You Optimistic About? (And Why?) Susan Blackmore says she “now (hadn’t always) believes that our civilisation will survive the coming climate catastrophe.”
From her answer:

A human without language or culture is hardly human at all.

The artificial systems we have built still depend on us, and would perish with us [...]