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Last Night
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stare at Finlay and he stares back. We’re both fixed on each other, and as seconds pass, I realise neither of us is trying to pretend it’s anything other than a heart-struck gaze of mutual longing. Everything about his face is so
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Wow.
“Perestroika was an impossible idea on the face of it. The Party was setting out to employ its structures of command to make the country, and itself, less command-driven. A system whose main afflictions were stagnation and inflexibility was setting out to change itself. Worst and probably intractable was the fact that people who had spent their lives securing power and individual leverage were expected to devise change that would dismantle the hierarchy of levers and might dislodge them. The system resisted change instinctively...”
― The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
― The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
“Hannah Arendt wrote that an ideology was nothing but a single idea taken to its logical extreme. No ideology was inherently totalitarian but any ideology contained the seeds of totalitarianism—it could become encapsulated, entirely divorced from reality, with a single premise eclipsing the entire world. Totalitarian leaders, she wrote, were interested less in the idea itself than in its use as the driver and justification of action. They derived the “laws of history” from the single chosen idea and then mobilized the people to fulfill these imaginary laws.”
― The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
― The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
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