The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty -…

Susan Sontag
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The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility. ✨ Susan Sontag (2013). Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors, p.118, Penguin UK
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The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility. ✨ Susan Sontag (2013). Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors, p.118, Penguin UK

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