Conservative party general election campaign poster, Dunston, Gateshead, April 1992

volkskrant 24-10-22

About 'The Dawn of Everything' by David Graeber and David Wengrow — archived version : https://everythingness.github.io/net/the-dawn-of-everything-wired-july-2022.html

“Let others dollar up their art. Mine was unpriceable. It was to be bestowed.”

From The Times 4-5-22 : Nayib Bukele styles himself as “The Saviour”, which is also the name in English of the country he runs, El Salvador. His supporters, who number in the millions, are still prepared to put their faith in the youthful, maverick president who has pledged to transform his troubled country into an ultra-modern state, complete with bitcoin as a national currency, but not everyone is a believer. Fears that the 40-year-old leader, who wears a baseball cap backwards and has joked that he is “the coolest dictator in the world”, is lurching towards full-blown authoritarianism have been heightened by events over the past month. In a country of 6.5 million people, 20,000 have been arrested over a period of 33 days, the government said.

Leuk stuk in de NRC van Karin Amatmoekrim over iemand die helemaal niet leuk is ... applaus!