There is no use indicting words, they are no shoddier than what they peddle.
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"she is not contemplating the sum of her possible pleasures, but the sum of her accomplished crimes, the common poverty, positively refracted in the gold which, being there, cannot be elsewhere"
The problem of course with non-violence and kindness etc is risk of being the first performer of a contract. If you can't guarantee that other parties will reciprocate, you're liable to sacrifice yourself. That's one reason you might want Leviathan: peace
2026:
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
The Double by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih
How It Is by Samuel Beckett
I forgot to post this when I was learning about cochineal but here's a bibliography I prepared, if you also care to investigate the subject
A brief history of cochineal, produced for the Met and illustrated with pieces from its collection: metmuseum.org/met-publicatio…
I wouldn't advocate for full-on breadlines, but I do think we should make a tradeoff and sacrifice a lot of productivity and efficiency for more leisure. You can't get everything you want all the time and give workers reasonable working conditions