David Graeber Institute on Nostr: "Hopelessness isn’t natural. It needs to be produced. If we really want to ...
"Hopelessness isn’t natural. It needs to be produced.
If we really want to understand this situation, we have to begin by understanding that for decades we have seen the construction of a vast bureaucratic apparatus for the creation and maintenance of hopelessness, a kind of giant machine that is designed, first and foremost, to destroy any sense of possible alternative futures."
- David Graeber
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