Law is any application for the official use of coercion that succeeds.
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The reinvention of daily life means marching off the edge of our maps.
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I call for a collective adventure in generalized joy and freely interdependent exuberance.
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People aren't as stupid as the politicians think. More and more of us are laughing off our 'civic duty' to vote, rejecting the role of compulsory constituent.
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You are what you do. If you do boring, stupid monotonous work, chances are you'll end up boring, stupid and monotonous. Work is a much better explanation for the creeping cretinization all around us than even such significant moronizing mechanisms as television and education.
— Bob Black The Abolition of Work & Other Essays
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