Michele Pasin / Quotes

L'avversario è una sirena ammaliatrice

Quindi: il nostro avversario non assomiglia affatto a un antagonista. Al contrario, sembra una ninfa sinuosa, una sirena ammaliatrice, un caro amico, con un alito a volte un po’ pesante, ma comunque buono e portatore di occasioni di cui possiamo godere. Non viene naturale identificare questo mellifluo figuro come l’ostacolo da superare (o abbattere) per il cambiamento. Anzi, se gli parlassimo delle nostre intenzioni ci guarderebbe col broncio bonario di cui è capace, ci offrirebbe altro oro e ci rimprovererebbe: «Ma come, dopo tutto quello che ho fatto per te!?» Un po’ come il mafioso che teneva i soldi a Leon, nel famoso film di Besson.

Saved 28 November 2014 / www.amazon.com ↗

#capitalism #money #consumerism #work

Poverty had become psychological

By the middle of the decade so many young people were dropping out that it looked as though “youth” was becoming a social class in its own right, one about to…

The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray) #counterculture #capitalism #work #anxiety #revolution

Money as a center

Sometimes there are apparently noble reasons given for making money, such as the desire to take care of one’s family. And these things are important. But to…

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Stephen R. Covey) #money #work #identity

Parenting, a job that only sends invoices

Yes, you have to teach children everything—even how to regulate their body fluids. And they are built to learn, which means you have to watch even your most…

Brain Rules for Baby (John Medina) #parents #children #work #money

9/11 and the end of middle-class society

Looking back on it today, the answer doesn’t seem to make that much difference. Either way, what 9/11 did was trash the last vestiges of middle-class society…

The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray) #politics #democracy #capitalism #power #freedom

Europe has only one political party

And from the kaleidoscope of contributions, a crude but effective analysis not only of the invasion of the Middle East, but of the political situation of…

The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray) #politics #democracy #capitalism #power

Feminists dealt capitalism the body blow

Rather than the terrorists, it was the early feminists who dealt capitalism the body blow. Their work offered the first critique of Western society as a whole…

The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray) #capitalism #revolution #identity #psychotherapy #counterculture