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“Of course, there is always the risk of future shock,[2] and people will still carry within them the urge to control, to centralize, and to “rage for order.”[3] But technology is helping us to become far more collaborative, and there is more ordering power in that force than in any demagogue with a standing army.”
― Max Borders, The Social Singularity: How decentralization will allow us to transcend politics, create global prosperity, and avoid the robot apocalypse

“The true “revolutionary” who undermines the foundations of our societies is not external terrorists or fundamentalists but the dynamics of global capitalism itself.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Heaven in Disorder

“The path to true change opens only when we lose hope in a change within the system.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Heaven in Disorder

“Today, the situation is not one in which heaven is divided into two spheres, as was the case in the Cold War period when two global worldviews confronted each other. The divisions of heaven today appear increasingly drawn within each particular country. In the United States, for instance, there is an ideological and political civil war between the alt-Right and the liberal-democratic establishment, while in the United Kingdom there are similarly deep divisions, as were recently expressed in the opposition between Brexiteers and anti-Brexiteers . . . Spaces for common ground are ever diminishing, mirroring the ongoing enclosure of physical public space, and this is happening at a time when multiple intersecting crises mean that global solidarity and international cooperation are more needed than ever.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Heaven in Disorder