“David [Graeber] took joy in his work, and in how that work intersected with actualities on the ground…That joy: maybe this is how everyone should feel about ideas and the ways that they open up or close off possibilities. The way that, as he wrote, “The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something we make and could just as easily make differently.” If you truly believe that, if you perceive a world that is constructed according to certain assumptions and values, then you see that it can be changed, not least by changing those assumptions and values. We have to recognise that ideas are tools that we wield – and with them, some power.”
Rebecca Solnit, “It Does Not Have to Be This Way: The Radical Optimism of David Graeber”