https://darcynorman.net/2011/01/03/power-and-the-tiny-acts-of-rebellion/ no more band-aids Tue, 23 Aug 2016 15:14:22 +0000 hourly 1 https://darcynorman.net/2011/01/03/power-and-the-tiny-acts-of-rebellion/#comment-199271 Tue, 04 Jan 2011 11:47:09 +0000 http://www.darcynorman.net/?p=4633#comment-199271 If in the first Renaissance we argued for classical learning and humanism; perhaps in the second one we argue against power. To curtail all those that wish for it, in the first one we only went after priests; and limit power such that no one is much better than any other. The idea of realpolitik needs to go. And our expectations and desires need to be controlled and we need more self-sufficient and self-sustaining systems… rather than unlimited desires… unlimited consumption… to infinity and beyond. We need to forget about “developing” other people and so on.

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