What’s the Point If We Can’t Have Fun? – David Graeber Institute
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View / Download (.pdf) | External link Year: 2014 Published: The Baffler The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World, p 307 My friend June Thunderstorm and I once spent a half an hour sitting in a meadow by a moun- tain lake, watching an inchworm dangle from the top of a stalk of grass, twist about in every possible direction, and then leap to the next stalk and do the same thing. And so it proceeded, in a vast circle, with what must have been a vast expenditure of energy, for what seemed like absolutely no reason at all. “All animals play,” June had once said to me. “Even ants.” She’d spent…
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