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6 years, 1 month ago

all problems are linguistic problems

[...] Any period to which its own past has become as questionable as it has to us must eventually come up against the phenomenon of language, for in it the past is contained ineradicably, thwarting all attempts to get rid of it once and for all. The Greek polis will continue to exist at the bottom …

—p.49 Illuminations: Essays and Reflections Introduction (1) by Hannah Arendt
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6 years, 2 months ago

uncontrollable to those in power

We take it for granted that many of these actions – preparing lunch or so-called “outside interests” – should not be included as part of a workplace history, but why do we take it for granted? Why is it an obvious point that money, ownership and the role played in the maintenance of power are the c…

—p.120 A Serf's Journal: The Story of the United States' Longest Wildcat Strike by Terry Tapp
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6 years, 2 months ago

their lives, their injuries, and their deaths are unmentioned

It is of little consequence that we remember the streams, the flora and the fauna of an area that is now a subdivision, but it is of great consequence that we remember the titles on that land held by families and the acquisition of these titles by developers and corporate interests, and it is of fu…

—p.118 by Terry Tapp
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aiding America’s enemies

About a month after the attacks the company began a series of meetings with us. These were small meetings with no more than twenty or so of us gathered at a time. The company had administrators or some group they hired to bring in a collection of charts and big pads of paper and place these on an e…

—p.115 by Terry Tapp
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why would anybody in South America care?

We stopped by my place briefly and I printed up more emails which kept pouring in. That night, I began to read the emails to the crowd at gate one and they were stunned that people in Brazil and Russia were aware of what we were doing and were saluting us, thanking us.

“Why would anybody in Sout…

—p.94 by Terry Tapp