"On Anarres there are no politicians, no bosses, no wages, no police, “no law but the single principle of mutual aid between individuals”. Its goals aren’t in the future but in the process itself. Its people practice a politics of means, not ends." lithub.com/the-way-of-w...

"Once in a lifetime, if one is lucky, one so merges with sunlight and air and running water that whole eons, the eons that mountains and deserts know might pass in a single afternoon without discomfort." Richard Powers reads Loren Eiseley in this exceptional episode open.spotify.com/episode/25hc...