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This names how harm stabilises itself.
When extraction becomes habitual, it gathers explanations and protections until it feels inevitable. Unlearning it is about recovering the capacity to notice where urgency, justification, and reflex have replaced discernment.
Sometimes the most meaningful shift begins with a small pause.
Full reflection here: https://substack.com/home/post/p-179417144
#FredericBastiat #DustyDimmerSwitch #SystemicHabits #CollapseAwareness #RelationalAttention
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This names how harm stabilises itself.
When extraction becomes habitual, it gathers explanations and protections until it feels inevitable. Unlearning it is about recovering the capacity to notice where urgency, justification, and reflex have replaced discernment.
Sometimes the most meaningful shift begins with a small pause.
Full reflection here: https://substack.com/home/post/p-179417144
#FredericBastiat #DustyDimmerSwitch #SystemicHabits #CollapseAwareness #RelationalAttention
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This names how harm stabilises itself.
When extraction becomes habitual, it gathers explanations and protections until it feels inevitable. Unlearning it is about recovering the capacity to notice where urgency, justification, and reflex have replaced discernment.
Sometimes the most meaningful shift begins with a small pause.
Full reflection here: https://substack.com/home/post/p-179417144
#FredericBastiat #DustyDimmerSwitch #SystemicHabits #CollapseAwareness #RelationalAttention
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This names how harm stabilises itself.
When extraction becomes habitual, it gathers explanations and protections until it feels inevitable. Unlearning it is about recovering the capacity to notice where urgency, justification, and reflex have replaced discernment.
Sometimes the most meaningful shift begins with a small pause.
Full reflection here: https://substack.com/home/post/p-179417144
#FredericBastiat #DustyDimmerSwitch #SystemicHabits #CollapseAwareness #RelationalAttention
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This names how harm stabilises itself.
When extraction becomes habitual, it gathers explanations and protections until it feels inevitable. Unlearning it is about recovering the capacity to notice where urgency, justification, and reflex have replaced discernment.
Sometimes the most meaningful shift begins with a small pause.
Full reflection here: https://substack.com/home/post/p-179417144
#FredericBastiat #DustyDimmerSwitch #SystemicHabits #CollapseAwareness #RelationalAttention
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When plunder has become a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.
[Lorsque la Spoliation est devenue le moyen d’existence d’une agglomération d’hommes unis entre eux par le lien social, ils se font bientôt une loi qui la sanctionne, une morale qui la glorifie.]Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850) French philosopher, economist, politician
Economic Sophisms [Sophismes Économiques], 2nd Series, ch. 1 “Physiology of Plunder [Physiologie de la Spoliation]” (1848) [tr. Goddard (1964)]More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/bastiat-frederic/395…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bastiat #fredericbastiat #robbery #corruption #exploitation #legalsystem #morality #plunder #plutocracy #selfserving #system #theft #meme
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When a regular person scrapes something off #theInternet its called #suspiciousActivity as best, at worst a #cyberAttack, piracy or #plagerism.
> Microsoft, Google and CloudFlare do it and its called a "#largeLanguageModel".
See what they did there.
#theft #piracy #chatGPT #AI #neoFeudalism #fredericBastiat #plunder #digitalCommons #privatisation #oligarchy
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> Banks don't buy...
The #MerchantBanks and #CentralBanks corrupt everything they touch. And they touch alot of stuff.
#FredericBastiat: "When #plunder becomes a way of life for a #groupOfMen in a #society, they create for themselves a #legalCode that authorises it, and a #moralCode that glorifies it." One cannot underestimate this. The #overdevelopment and #gentrification that has gutted #communities over the past century was funded by #bankers, including the…(1/3)
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