The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain
for though only the society could give security and stability, only the individual, the person, had the power of moral choice—the power of change, the essential function of life.
Ursula K. Le Guin • The Dispossessed (Hainish Cycle)
It will end, Childan thought. Someday. The very idea of place. Not governed and governing, but people.
Philip K. Dick • The Man in the High Castle (Penguin Modern Classics)
“The existence of a public realm,” Arendt observed, “and the world's subsequent transformation into a community of things which gathers men together and relates them to each other depends entirely on permanence.”
L. M. Sacasas • The Stuff of Life: Materiality and the Self
We must conceive of and implement wholly new forms of ownership, financial systems, and measurements free of the attempt to monetize all values which binds institutions to next quarter's bottom line and results in gross mal-distribution of wealth and power, degradation of people, and desolation of the ecosphere, or our stories will be increasingly ... See more