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“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: The must-read gripping new book about 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

“all we had been doing was merely replacing one superstitious dogma for another: every ‘truth’ was merely a product of the historical, cultural and social lens we view and tell them through.”
― Ed Coper, Facts and Other Lies: Welcome to the Disinformation Age

“Given these roots, the casualness with which our culture has come to discuss the idea that humans should strive to be brands is itself a kind of violent erasure.”
― Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World