Pablo Rodriguez

“In a crowd, Le Bon postulates, the individual’s consciousness “disintegrates” into a collective, and more primitive, state of mind. Under the right conditions, this primitive mind—Freud’s “id”—can be managed and manipulated by the careful choice of words, colors, music, and staged events. The result is the igniting of the two most powerful drives of the unconscious: Freud’s Eros, and Thanatos. These show themselves, Le Bon said, as the love and adoration for a leader, a thirst for violence, and “absolute certainty in the cause, a belief in their own omnipotence, and a furious hatred of perceived opponents.”10”
― Mary Wald, Sowing Hate and Chaos: How Propaganda Is Used to Destroy Democracy

“paraphrase the nineteenth-century Haitian historian Émile Nau. It is an impossible endeavor in many ways—we cannot simply slip into someone else’s place. But the attempt itself is essential. It has the potential to disrupt, if fleetingly, our assumptions about people, places, and pasts. It nudges us to glimpse the world differently, to grasp history on a more human scale, perhaps even to see ourselves through the eyes of others.”
― Ada Ferrer, Cuba: An American History

“But the soul has no parts. You might argue that human souls did not evolve, but appeared one bright day in the fullness of their glory. But when exactly was that bright day?”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

“The result has been disproportionate suffering. Lower-income Americans and people of color are more likely to be infected and face twice the risk of serious illness than people from higher-income households.7 For the wealthy, time with family, Netflix, savings, and stock portfolio value have all increased as commutes and costs have declined.”
― Scott Galloway, Post Corona: From Crisis to Opportunity