We mistake the world we inherit for a world that must be this way. History, habit and collective belief conceal a more uncomfortable truth: our civilisation is simply what did happen, not what had to happen.
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pity the children
A healthy society expects children to become adults. An unhealthy one encourages adults to remain immature.
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The Human Condition
Psychoanalysis begins with a joke that only works because it fails: the patient arrives burdened with paranoia, anxiety, and unhappiness, and the doctor replies that this is simply the human condition. (Cure denied.) The moment this is understood, the structure collapses. The consulting room becomes a mirror, not a remedy, and what it reflects is […]
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Unsustainable Fashion
Context: The Myth of Sustainable Fashion …and not, as it turns out, an isolated instance of an industry and integrated economic culture being so profoundly shaped by and oriented towards cultivating obsolescence and waste that it could hardly continue to exist in any kind of recognisable form without it. In one regard, this is a […]
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All Hollow
We are our own products and the curators of our selves…
We are all products…
