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Noam Chomsky
“NC: You’re right, but I think it tells you something very interesting about Western culture. When they went to the concentration camps and were appalled, they did not say, “Let’s save the survivors”; they said, “Let someone else pay for saving the survivors.” IP: Exactly. NC: This tells you something about the West, the deeply rooted imperial mentality that affects the West like a plague. Yes, there are these people living in misery. We are the ones able to help them, but we are not going to even raise that possibility. Somebody else, who does not have the capacity, they have to suffer for it.”
Noam Chomsky, On Palestine

Paul Farmer
“Increasingly, what people with AIDS share are not personal or psychological attributes. They do not share culture or language or a certain racial identity. They do not share sexual preference or an absolute income bracket. What they share, rather, is a social position—the bottom rung of the ladder in inegalitarian societies.”
Paul Farmer, Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues

“So will they only sell their exploits to good Western governments?” He repeated my words back to me. “Good Western governments?” I slumped so low in my seat, I was sure my head wasn’t even showing. The words were even more humiliating coming out of an Argentine’s mouth.”
Nicole Perlroth, This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race

David Graeber
“I believe that this instinct to perpetuate useless work is, at bottom, simply fear of the mob. The mob (the thought runs) are such low animals that they would be dangerous if they had leisure; it is safer to keep them too busy to think. —George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London”
David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

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