If you haven’t read this yet, fix that as soon as possible: it’s a beautifully crafted response to a great album. And if you teach literature, you might want to consider using the second and third paragraphs as an example of how close reading works.
A must read! Not your dad’s barter myth essay! Goes so much deeper! Happy father’s day weekend!
I do appreciate the rhyming
It’s the people stupid.
Kreg Abshire
Benjamin Wilson
Historians don’t just help prevent historical catastrophes from being repeated. They loosen the aura of inevitability and naturalism that surrounds everyday dysfunctions
The chilling thing about this Nazi eugenics poster that counts how much a disabled person’s life costs to the German taxpayer is how CONVENTIONAL the economic argument is.
This is the message of “taxpayer money” as a mechanism for public finance. You are either making money or costing money.
Benjamin Wilson
Dominique Baker
There are no exogenous shocks - this terminology is an “ideological pathology”
I Think You’re What’s Wrong With Me: On Influence, Absorption, and Olivia Rodrigo’s ‘You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love’
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moneyontheleft.org/2026/06/20/t...
@feinig.bsky.social translates & introduces an early essay by Jean-Michel Servet. This work inspired Graeber's critical popularization of the "myth of barter." Yet Servet's project goes further by also affirming money’s pro-social powers.
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