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Eric Laursen

    The Operating System
    The Duty To Stand Aside
    • The Duty To Stand Aside

      • 175 pages
      • 7 hours of reading
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      Two prominent frenemies agree on the duty of intellectuals in society, if little else.

      The Duty To Stand Aside
    • The Operating System

      • 258 pages
      • 10 hours of reading
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      "One of the most unique aspects of anarchism as a political philosophy is that it seeks to abolish the state. But what exactly is "the state"? The State is like a vast operating system for ordering and controlling relations among human society, the economy, and the natural world, analogous to a digital operating system like Windows or MacOS. Like a state, an operating system "governs" the programs and applications under it and networked with it, as well as, to some extent, the individuals who avail themselves of these tools and resources ..."--Amazon.com

      The Operating System