Anka

“Supermajorities, however, depend on smallness. And there will never be a global supermajority, unless the elite spend the next thousand years brainwashing us into one androgynous being, as perfectly malleable as Silly Putty is.”
― R.W. Mecklenburg

“Excessive positivity also expresses itself as an excess of stimuli, information, and impulses. It radically changes the structure and economy of attention. Perception becomes fragmented and scattered.”
― Byung-Chul Han, The Burnout Society

“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

“It is time for us to move on from autocracy versus democracy and start talking about the involuntary, mammoth bastardizations of each.”
― R.W. Mecklenburg