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Auntie Syzygy
@auntiesyzygy.bsky.social
Veg-growing hermit pensioner. Former indexer.
Scottish Statehood, Greek & Greece, Bee Orchids & the Bronze Age.
Nobody should own land as if it was a thing.
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"We are sharers not owners...if it is the future you seek, then I tell you that you must come to it with empty hands. You must come to it alone, and naked, as a child comes into the world...wholly dependent on other people. You cannot take what you have not been given, and you must give yourself"
At Scientific American, Alan Scherstuhl calls The Dispossessed—which will be released in a 50th anniversary edition next month—"inexhaustibly rich and wise."
Book Review: Fifty years later, Ursula K. Le Guin’s Novel about Utopian Anarchists Is as Relevant as Ever
In The Dispossessed, a physicist is caught between societies
That quote is the bit immediately before the more famous quote from Shevek's speech to the insurgents, where he says: "You cannot buy the Revolution. You cannot make the Revolution. You can only be the Revolution."
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Auntie Syzygy
@auntiesyzygy.bsky.social
Veg-growing hermit pensioner. Former indexer.
Scottish Statehood, Greek & Greece, Bee Orchids & the Bronze Age.
Nobody should own land as if it was a thing.
385 followers504 following1.4k posts