Buzzing Phones
I didn’t do any research at all on Adam Smith. I just read him. There’s no research. Just read it. He’s pre-capitalist, a figure of the Enlightenment. What we would call capitalism he despised. People read snippets of Adam Smith, the few phrases they teach in school. Everybody reads the first paragraph of The Wealth of Nations where he talks about how wonderful the division of labor is. But not many people get to the point hundreds of pages later, where he says that division of labor will destroy human beings and turn people into creatures as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human being to be.
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Noam Chomsky (via cultureofresistance)

This is why Starfleet Academy teaches Shakespeare and shit.
Reblogged 5 months ago from urbanafrofuturism (Originally from noam-chomsky)
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    This is why Starfleet Academy teaches Shakespeare and shit.
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    things i learned within a month of being at reed: don’t make claims from secondary sources fool!
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