“The proletariat will never come to embody power unless it becomes the class of consciousness.”
― The Society of the Spectacle
― The Society of the Spectacle
“It's the same each time with progress. First they ignore you, then they say you're mad, then dangerous, then there's a pause and then you can't find anyone who disagrees with you.”
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“And he who becomes master of a city used to being free and does not destroy her can expect to be destroyed by her, because always she has as pretext in rebellion the name of liberty and her old customs, which never through either length of time or benefits are forgotten, and in spite of anything that can be done or foreseen, unless citizens are disunited or dispersed, they do not forget that name and those institutions”
― The Prince
― The Prince
“The current, metamodern discourse also acknowledges that history’s purpose will never be fulfilled because it does not exist. Critically, however, it nevertheless takes toward it as if it does exist. Inspired by a modern naı ¨vete´ yet informed by postmodern skepticism, the metamodern discourse consciously commits itself to an impossible possibility.”
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