A theme that keeps returning in my political and philosophical reading and thinking is the lack of #imagination.

I just read an essay about Günther Anders, a philosopher who wrote about living in an age where our capacity to imagine thing is dwarfed by our capacity to act. For exemple: we can't imagine tackling climate change because it's so big, but at the same time, we are causing it.

There's a link here with #Graeber his critique of #neoliberalism as a system to suppress imagination. Any attempt to go beyond the limits it constrains us in, people are ridiculed (at best) or violently repressed. There Is No Alternative - by force if necessary.

#ClimateDiary

"#DavidGraeber was the #anthropologist who re-framed economics by showing that its most basic assumptions were myths.
Where conventional economists traced money to barter and exchange, #Graeber traced it to trust and relationships. He argued that the origins of money lay not in #markets but in #morality: in obligations, promises, and the human capacity for cooperation."

https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/11/14/economic-questions-the-david-graeber-question/comment-page-1/

#TheDawnofEverything”: David #Wengrow & the Late David #Graeber On a New History of #Humanity #yt

https://youtu.be/JDO28CPAPuM

"Companies like CNN or the Associated Press, they argue, are capitalist firms; it would be utterly naïve to imagine they would been willing to provide a friendly venue for anyone actively opposed to capitalism—let alone to carry anti-capitalist messages to the public." from https://www.davidgraeber.org/wp-content/uploads/2007-On-the-phenomenology-of-giant-puppets.pdf

Surely he read the prescient words of Walter Lippmann!

#Propaganda #WalterLippmann #Graeber #Anarchism