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“This analysis destabilizes pretty much all the stories that I grew up with, which taught us that the Holocaust was a singular event without precedent so far outside the bounds of human history that it was essentially impossible to comprehend. We learned, in myriad way, that there was something sacrilegious about even speaking of the Nazi Holocaust in the same breath as any other crime, that to do so made it less horrific, less shocking, somehow ordinary. But what is ordinary is horrific? What id thats the point: that Nazism is not an aberration from an otherwise uplifting story of enlightenment and modernity, but its not-so-distant double, its other face?”
― Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

“Only a crisis - actual or perceived - produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around. That, I believe, is our basic function: to develop alternatives to existing policies, to keep them alive and available until the politically impossible becomes the politically inevitable.”
― Milton Friedman

“War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.”
― George Orwell, 1984