Saturday, June 15, 2019

Reducing Life to Buying & Selling.

 
“Perhaps the most extraordinary characteristic of current America 
is the attempt to reduce life to buying and selling. 
Life is not love unless love is sex and bought and sold. 
Life is not knowledge save knowledge of technique, 
of science for destruction. 
Life is not beauty except beauty for sale. 
Life is not art unless its price is high and it is sold for profit. 
All life is production for profit, 
and for what is profit but for buying and selling again?” 
—  W.E.B. Du Bois, The Autobiography of W.E.B. Du Bois: A Soliloquy on Viewing My Life from the Last Decade of Its First Century, Published June 1st 1968 by International Publishers.


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