“The real psychological truth is this: If you’ve got nothing to hide, you are nothing.”
― The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
― The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
“the concept of a “meme” which for our purposes is no different from an “idea”. A meme is actually a collection of ideas that have a strategy for replicating themselves.”
― The Power Law of Information: Life in A Connected World
― The Power Law of Information: Life in A Connected World
“the oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed”
― The Ethics of Ambiguity
― The Ethics of Ambiguity
“it is no longer enough to automate information flows about us; the goal now is to automate us.”
― The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
― The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
“The oppressor shows solidarity with the oppressed only when he stops regarding the oppressed as an abstract category and sees them as persons who have been unjustly dealt with, deprived of their voice, cheated in the sale of their labour — when he stops making pious, sentimental, and individualistic gestures and risks an act of love.”
― Pedagogy of the Oppressed
― Pedagogy of the Oppressed
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