Anka

“Nationalists and globalists hate each other, but really they are philosophical twins; the only thing separating them is degree. A nationalist wants to centralize the nation, a globalist wants to centralize the globe[...] most nationalists are just as bad as globalists, insofar as few want localism and federalism.”
― 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

“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

“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