...slicing through the heavy traffic and then bombing it down Vermont...

What mattered most was that, from the very top of the Nihon Sumo Kyōkai, Yokozuna Akebono had been shown respect.

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As Nafus (2016) points out, at the heart of the quantified self is an understanding of the individual as being ultimately responsible for taking control of their lives. This type of belief lends itself to neoliberal fantasy, ignoring how governments, corporations and others dictate the framework in which we live.