If I see value in something, it has high marginal utility. What I'm willing to sacrifice for it is my marginal cost. The potential gain from sacrificing it for something else is my opportunity cost. There's nothing more to it.
when you stop translating yourself
silence becomes a language
Until at some point you no longer say
"Soon."
But:
"Now."
no one can free humanity
He who loves does not possess.
He who wants to possess does not love.
Everything else is a lie.
Belonging to yourself is the most beautiful violence I know
You can accumulate a lot of tools without being a craftsman.
Democracy means two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
But it also means two sheep and a wolf voting on it. The wolf is then simply forced to eat grass.
Career is a belief based on the idea that you can go higher or further measured by a standard that you did not create yourself.
To pursue it is to run faster in someone else’s labyrinth, mistaking movement for meaning.
The opposite of sovereignty is hell.
Because the loss of self-determination tears people apart.
Foreign rule is not just a lack of freedom - it is the dissolution of one's own being.
The only legitimate focus is the self.
Objectivity is a useful fiction, a methodical approach to intersubjective understanding. But it is not a metaphysically existing entity. Those who claim to be objective either ignore their own blind spots or exercise domination through apparent neutrality.