Brooks Brown

“Don’t start from the good old things but the bad new ones.”
― Benjamin Noys, Malign Velocities: Accelerationism and Capitalism

“Strange Christianity, whose most pressing anxiety seems to be that God’s grace might prove to be all too free on this side, that hell, instead of being populated with so many people, might some day prove to be empty!”
― Slavoj Žižek, Less than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism

“I am an anti-capitalist because I believe we can improve on it. I believe that we can create the vision I have for a totalized system, a unified system, that can effectively do things. Stop global warming. Feed everybody. Settle disputes diplomatically, and when necessary, quash disputes militarily with proportional measure. This may sound unnecessarily harsh, but it needs to be said, because it is part and parcel of any type of system, if it is to be successful.    This is what I think can save us.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Unfiltered Thought: A Political Philosophy

“That is the great danger of meritocracy: the people who reach the top of the system are precisely the people who have most completely identified with the system and its demands, creating a vicious circle preventing any actual change. It is no accident that conservatives tend to employ the rhetoric of social mobility so readily, as social climbers generally do not ask questions about the ladder.”
― Adam Kotsko, Why We Love Sociopaths: A Guide to Late Capitalist Television