“All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.”
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“You seem to be under the impression that there is a special breed of bad humans. There is no such thing as a stereotype bad man in this world. Under normal conditions, everybody is more or less good, or, at least, ordinary. But tempt them, and they may suddenly change. That is what is so frightening about men.”
― Kokoro
― Kokoro
“The assumption that what currently exists must necessarily exist is the acid that corrodes all visionary thinking.”
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“Present-day culture, social relations, cityscapes, modes of production, agriculture, and transportation have remade the traditional proletarian into a largely petty bourgeois stratum whose mentality is marked by its own utopianism of “consumption for the sake of consumption.” We”
― The Next Revolution: Popular Assemblies and the Promise of Direct Democracy
― The Next Revolution: Popular Assemblies and the Promise of Direct Democracy
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