Denizen One

Extract from Curtis White's The Spirit of Disobedience: Resisting the Charms of Fake Politics, Mindless Consumption, and the Culture of Total Work "It is no doubt that at some level we believe that these things that separate us from the Golden Rule have a payoff: they allow the accumulation of wealth while making the idea that we're responsible for others not so much wrong as irrelevant. And so it's all right if 60 percent of the nation's wealth is owned by the top 4 percent

Extract from L. Howie and P. Campbell’s Essay Wear a Necklace of h(r)ope Side by Side with Me Editors note: a particular word has to be...

From Paul Scott's 'The Raj Quartet' (part 1) “They were predictable people, predictable because they worked for the robot. What the robot...

Extract from David Graeber’s Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy “What I would like to argue is...

Sometimes you start a book, and right from the first page it starts dropping bombs. Extract from Dan Davies' The Unaccountability...

Extract from Rutger Bregman's Extract from Rutger Bregman's Humankind: A Hopeful History I thought this chapter might be of use to a...

The yurodivy is a Holy Fool, one who acts intentionally foolish in the eyes of men . The term implies behaviour "which is caused neither...

Before we start, this post is a little different. It's part of a story. It's got a message and and emotional core. If you want to do it...

A false sense of hope robs us of a sense of urgency when facing a dire situation. What we need is real hope, practical solutions and if...

Extracts from Sanford F. Schram's The Return of Ordinary Capitalism "Yet for those who fail at becoming on their own financially savvy...

Extract from Martin Luthor King Jr's Shattered Dreams “What, then, is the answer? The answer lies in our willing acceptance of unwanted...

Extract from William Davies The Happiness Industry: How Government and Big Business Sold Us Well-being "What it all ultimately comes...

Extract from Rachel Sherman's Uneasy Street: The Anxieties of Affluence “Regardless of their struggles, almost all my respondents...

Extract from David Graeber’s Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy “What I would like to argue...

Adam Smith (16 June 1723 - 17 July 1790) is seen by some as 'The Father of Economics' or The Father of Capitalism' Extract from David...

Extract from David Graeber's Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy “At this point I can return to...

Excerpt from 'The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity' by David Graeber and David Wengrow Lahontan: This is why the wicked need...

For the record, I am an atheist. Extract from Rutger Bregman's Humankind: A Hopeful History “Not long ago, Julio Diaz, a young social...

Keith Payne, author of 'The Broken Ladder' Extract from Keith Payne’s The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Changes the Way We Think, Live...

Extract from Robert Whitaker & Lisa Cosgrove's 'Psychiatry Under the Influence' “As Kriss observed in his article [in which he reviews...