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“America, once a federation, has become a unified duopoly headquartered in DC, whose ambitions are to control all fifty states and 330 million individuals. And not only them, but the entire world.”
― R.W. Mecklenburg

“If it were up to me, I would chose to live in a federation of a thousand small republics each governed by a supermajority of likeminded individuals and their votes-- votes to make law (direct democracy) or votes to elect trustees who vote to make law (indirect democracy)”
― R.W. Mecklenburg

“We owe the cultural achievements of humanity—which include philosophy—to deep, contemplative attention. Culture presumes an environment in which deep attention is possible. Increasingly, such immersive reflection is being displaced by an entirely different form of attention: hyperattention.”
― Byung-Chul Han, The Burnout Society

“In America:
The voters pay politicians to rent their government.
The homeowners pay property taxes to rent their homes.
The workers pay income taxes to rent their jobs.
The debtors pay interest to rent their possessions.
We live as vicarious owners, as the football fan vicariously is "part of the team," though not a single player on that team knows his name. An adult talking about "his team!" It is the grand delusion of ownership that mass collectives precipitate. And when people falsely feel they own something, they are likelier to invest money with the true owner, buying his stadiums, inflating his stock prices, and electing him to office.”
― R.W. Mecklenburg