"The teacher of history's work should be, ideally, not simply a description of past cultures, but a performance of the culture in which we live and are increasingly taking our being."

William Irwin Thompson, American Philosopher

Work, History, Performance, Being

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"The teacher of history's work should be, ideally, not simply a description of past cultures, but a performance of the culture in which we live and are increasingly taking our being."

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"That most limited of all specialists, the "well-rounded man"."

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"The world system is employment."

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"Police officers are poorly paid for a very stressful job that has them in very high powered radio frequency (RF) fields and in a daily environment that may result in them being assaulted, maimed or killed."

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"A butler supplies food to nourish your body, but a writer nourishes your mind through writing."

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"Do not be weary to make money."

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"My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer."

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"Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays."

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"Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live."

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"Next to us is not the workman whom we have hired, with whom we love so well to talk, but the workman whose work we are."

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"One way to find food for thought is to use the fork in the road, the bifurcation that marks the place of emergence in which a new line of development begins to branch off."

Food

"Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe."

Imagination

"Hominid and human evolution took place over millions and not billions of years, but with the emergence of language there was a further acceleration of time and the rate of change."

Change

"With the emergence of civilization, the rate of change shifted from hundreds of thousands of years to millennia. With the emergence of science as a way of knowing the universe, the rate of change shifted to centuries."

Change

"In the domain of cops and robbers, an interdiction serves to structure a black market and a shadow economy."

Economy

"A World is not an ideology nor a scientific institution, nor is it even a system of ideologies; rather, it is a structure of unconscious relations and symbiotic processes."

Society

"The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos."

Science

"Idealistic reformers are dangerous because their idealism has no roots in love, but is simply a hysterical and unbalanced rage for order amidst their own chaos."

Love

"Not all intelligence can be artificial now, so if we make a mistake, the consequences are no longer simply located within an institution or a national culture."

Intelligence

"The more chaos there is, the more science holds on to abstract systems of control, and the more chaos is engendered."

Science