… honor is not the same as dignity. One might even say: honor is surplus dignity. It is that heightened consciousness of power, and its dangers, that comes from having stripped away the power and dignity of others; or at the very least, from the knowledge that one is capable of doing so.
— <p>David Graeber, <a href=“http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00513DGIO?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=213733&amp;creative=393177&amp;creativeASIN=B00513DGIO&amp;linkCode=shr&amp;tag=cat0be5-20" title=“Amazon.com”>Debt: The First 5,000 Years</a> (Kindle Locations 3554-3556).</p>
<p>I was asked by <a href=“http://www.ericascourti.com” title=“ericascourti.com”>Erica Scourti</a>, a London-based artist, to contribute a passage from Graeber’s book that I felt was significant; I felt the above passage got closest to my own objections to Capitalism: that it is inherently carnivorous and dehumanizing.</p>
<p>Scourti actually asked for a screenshot from my Kindle, and so here it is (by way of the Kindle application on my MacBook Air):</p>
<p><img alt=”" src=“https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/659101/graeber_highlight.PNG"/></p>
