Pete Farlam

“History isn’t the study of the past; it is the study of change. History teaches us what remains the same, what changes, and how things change.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

“The National Party (NP) tried to make its nakedly racist system seem palatable with the phrase 'separate development' - perhaps Apartheid's greatest lie. The truth was that in Verwoerd's magic kingdom, Snow White carried a sjambok and beat the shit out of anyone that failed the pencil test.”
― Jonathan Ancer, BULLSH!T: 50 Fibs That Made South Africa

“The world was too ridiculous for me to remain too sad for too long.”
― Arundhati Roy, Mother Mary Comes to Me

“This drives populists to be skeptical of the pursuit of truth, and to argue... that 'power is the only reality.' They thereby seek to undercut or appropriate the authority of any independent institutions that might oppose them. The result is a dark and cynical view of the world as a jungle and of human beings as creatures obsessed with power alone. All social interactions are seen as power struggles, and all institutions are depicted as cliques promoting the interests of their own members...”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI