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Basic Income Day without Bellamy? May 4, 2015. On May 1, Vox posted an article on International Basic Income Day. Which is pretty much what you’d think it is. What was weird about these sites is that none of them mention Edward Bellamy, whose Looking Backward, 2000-1887. I don’t believe Bellamy was the originator of this idea, but he was certainly one of its most prominent popularizers at the end of the 19th century. A quote from the relevant passage in chapter nine. 8220;How, then, do you regulate wages?
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The limitations of niceness | Miles from Knowhere
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Annotating Utopia: an online community project. Revitalizing the coffeehouse tradition →. The limitations of niceness. February 25, 2015. Todd VanDerWeff over at. Makes what I think is a parallel case. To the one I made earlier about. What has finally made. The final genius of. Then, has been in the idea that we don’t. In other words, utopia is not just hard work, but recognizing the limits within which you’re constrained. Tagged Parks and Recreation. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here.
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Newer posts →. Utopian historiography (preliminary reflections). October 15, 2014. If history is reality , if historical knowledge tells us what is real and how this reality came to be what it is and in telling this also establishes its necessity and sets limits on what is possible to do in and against this reality, then it follows that any utopian project seeking to liberate us from this reality will be adjudged to be unrealistic , precisely in the degree to which it is unhistorical . This has been marg...
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Basic Income Day without Bellamy? | Miles from Knowhere
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Revitalizing the coffeehouse tradition. Basic Income Day without Bellamy? May 4, 2015. On May 1, Vox posted an article on International Basic Income Day. Which is pretty much what you’d think it is. What was weird about these sites is that none of them mention Edward Bellamy, whose Looking Backward, 2000-1887. In which the stranger to utopia and his Virgil discuss the wage situation in 21st c. Boston:. 8220;How, then, do you regulate wages? 8221; I once more asked. 8220;I suppose you mean that you have n...
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Revitalizing the coffeehouse tradition | Miles from Knowhere
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The limitations of niceness. Basic Income Day without Bellamy? Revitalizing the coffeehouse tradition. March 19, 2015. Not much I can say would add clarity or fresh insight to the drawbacks of the Race Together campaign recently unveiled by Starbucks founder Howard Schultz. Apart from the inevitable. Negative reactions have been covered by The Nation. Then again, there are customers like me. I personally find it intriguing that I might walk into a coffee shop and have the barista ask for my opinion o...
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Parks and Rec: critical utopia? | Miles from Knowhere
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Revising in time and space. Annotating Utopia: an online community project →. February 4, 2015. Trigger warning: spoilers ahead. The latest (and final) season of Parks and Recreation. Knockoff to a warm, insightful pageant with satirical overtones. In its capacity of social critique, Parks and Rec. Having taken the long way round to make the point, I think that Parks and Recreation. As a conscious critique of utopia, but in practice, it certainly seems to be that way. One thought on “ Parks and Rec.
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