Those of us who stand outside the circle of this society's definition of acceptable women; those of us who have been forged in the crucibles of difference - those of us who are poor, who are lesbians, who are black, who are older - know that survival is not an academic skill...For the master's tools will not dismantle the master's house. They will never allow us to bring about genuine change.
Audre LordeStichwörter: women society different survival race racism differences poor rejection exclusion impoverished lesbians outcasts povetry social-acceptance survival-skills
To demand that a person pee in a cup whenever you wish him to, without a documented reason to suspect that he has been using an illegal drug, is intolerable in our republic. You are saying to him, "I wonder if you are not behaving in a way that I approve of. Convince me that you indeed are.
Outrageous.
Intolerable.
Stichwörter: society drugs shulgin
There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol."
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"There was a thing called the soul and a thing called immortality."
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"But they used to take morphia and cocaine."
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"Two thousand pharmacologists and biochemists were subsidized in A.F. 178."
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"Six years later it was being produced commercially. The perfect drug."
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"Euphoric, narcotic, pleasantly hallucinant."
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"All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects."
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"Take a holiday from reality whenever you like, and come back without so much as a headache or a mythology."
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"Stability was practically assured.
Stichwörter: happiness society drugs huxley stability
What should have died along with communism is the belief that modern societies can be run on a single principle, whether that of planning under the general will or that of free-market allocations.
Charles TaylorStichwörter: politics society economics principles
Society is not just the product of its individual members; it is also the product of its constituent groups.
Clay ShirkyStichwörter: society
The centrality of group effort to human life means that anything that changes the way groups function will have profound ramifications for everything from commerce and government to media and religion.
Clay ShirkyStichwörter: society
[N]ew technology enables new kinds of group-forming.
Clay ShirkyStichwörter: society technology
The transfer of [...] capabilities from various professional classes to the general public is epochal.
Clay ShirkyStichwörter: society profession
When we change the way we communicate, we change society
Clay ShirkyStichwörter: society communication
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Tragedy of the Commons: while each person can agree that all would benefit from common restraint, the incentives of the individuals are arrayed against that outcome.
Clay ShirkyStichwörter: society organization
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