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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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pecuniary

As the cultural critic Mark Fisher insightfully demonstrated, contemporary capitalism wages a psychological war as much as a pecuniary one, where melancholy is systematically induced on a mass scale to tame the revolutionary rage that marked the 1960s and 1970s apart

from Ghosts of My Life which I really need to read

—p.7 Introduction: Welcome to the New Dark Ages (1) by Peter Fleming
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clean energy is not enough

So the problem isn't just the type of energy we're using, it's what we're doing with it. What would we do with 100 per cent clean energy? Exactly what we're doing with fossil fuels: raze more forests, build more meat farms, expand industrial agriculture, produce more cement and heap up more landfil…

—p.286 The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions Nine (275) by Jason Hickel
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Stiglitz on Goodhart's law

[...] As Joseph Stiglitz put it, 'What we measure informs what we do. And if we're measuring the wrong thing, we're going to do the wrong thing.'

—p.282 Nine (275) by Jason Hickel
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