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  1. A quotation from Teddy Roosevelt

    The teaching which I received was genuinely democratic in one way. It was not so democratic in another. I grew into manhood thoroughly imbued with the feeling that a man must be respected for what he made of himself. But I had also, consciously or unconsciously, been taught that socially and industrially pretty much the whole duty of the man lay in thus making the best of himself; that he should be honest in his dealings with others and charitable in the old-fashioned way to the unfortunate; but that it was no part of his business to join with others in trying to make things better for the many by curbing the abnormal and excessive development of individualism in a few.

    Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901–1909)
    Autobiography, ch. 1 “Boyhood and Youth” (1913)

    More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/8…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #teddyroosevelt #theodoreroosevelt #collective #commoncause #commoninterest #community #exploitation #individualism #mutualresponsibility #mutualsupport #progress #reform #respect #selfcenteredness #selfmade #selfishness

  2. "There are instances of reparative democracy all over the world.
    Some are fleeting and partial; others are more sustained. Many emerge from the indigenous and the young, who do not need to be told that human and nonhuman life are interdependent, that the world is in an emergency state, and that constitutional liberal democracy is both incapable of addressing that emergency and itself an exhausted form."
    "For reparative democracy oriented by the ecological emergency, for example, we need new ways of envisioning and hearing the nonhuman and our place within it. Sound theory, and especially bioacoustics, has much to teach us here. So also do some parts of indigenous cosmologies and ways of knowing." Wendy Brown
    and Francis Wade, The Violent Exhaustion of Liberal Democracy >>
    bostonreview.net/articles/the-
    #liberalism #democracy #individualism #deforestation #logging #noise #ecocide #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateEmergency #IndigenousPeoples #voice #biodiversity #deprovincialize #isegoria #SoundEcology #RelationalTurn

  3. @witchescauldron
    Okay, yep. Got it, thankyou.

    We absolutely love that song '#PureImagination' from the #1971 film, #WillyWonka and the ChocolateFactory. But it does slightly dement every person who hears it.

    The sad part is the #film itself rejects notions of #individualism… but its that #song and that melody that they can play at any time to bring people back to #deathcult ideology when needed!

    #postmodernism #neoliberalism #corporatism #corporateState #theMegaMachine
    @hamishcampbell