EVERYTHING YET NOTHING

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“There’s gotta be another way. Suppose we were to demand an end to the awful condition of our cities — the homelessness, the Third World infant-mortailty rates, the breakdown of services — not out of moral obligation, but because life in surroundings that are dangerous, devoid of public amenities and poisoned by class and racial hostility just isn’t much fun? Suppose that instead of packing the jails and forcing workers to pee on command in a futile attempt to stamp out illegal drugs, we were to ask why, for so many of us, drugs — legal or otherwise — seem to be the only pleasure game in town? … What if we really started taking this seriously — for everyone?” — Ellen Willis, “The Neo-Guilt Trip”, 1992

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