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“For more than twenty years, ever since those jetliners flew into the glass and steel of the World Trade Center, I have been preoccupied with the ways that large-scale shocks scramble our collective synapses, lead to mass regression, and make humans easy prey for demagogues.”
― Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World

“In 1957, historian Norman Cohn had tracked these outbreaks of apocalyptic thinking to periods of significant social, technological and economic change, when wealth inequality becomes highly visible.1 Arguably, with the tumultuous changes brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, we’re living through one of those periods now.”
― Byron Clark, Fear: New Zealand's Hostile Underworld of Extremists

“In her words, ‘preconceived images of oppressed Muslim women end up shaping policies that harm our communities’.”
― Hussein Kesvani, Follow Me, Akhi: The Online World of British Muslims

“The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.’ —Voltaire”
― Ed Coper, Facts and Other Lies: Welcome to the Disinformation Age