When we lost income abruptly, we found an amazing freedom from an enslavement of which we had been unaware - the pressure to constantly evaluate and improve on what we possessed. Being unable to entertain the notion of unnecessary expenditures freed us to savor where we were and what we had in ways that enriched our lives so much more than the income we lost had ever done.
Monday, October 17, 2022
Sunday, October 16, 2022
Education should be subversive... and lead to autonomy and independence
Chris Hedges:
"Education should be subversive. It should give us the intellectual tools and vocabulary to question the reigning ideas and structures that buttress the powerful. It should make us autonomous and independent beings, capable of making our own judgments, capable of understanding and defying the “cultural hegemony,” to quote Antonio Gramsci, that keeps us in bondage."
Wednesday, October 5, 2022
Your Money or Your Life
“Spending money is not an assertion of your freedom. It is the key to your next enslavement,” Robin tells me.
Your Money or Your Life: 9 Steps to Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Ind ependence: Revised and Updated for the 21st Century
Tilford, Monique, Dominguez, Joe, Robin, Vicki
Published by Penguin Books, 2008
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