Status Updates From Autocratie(s): Quand les di...

p. 135 “”They simply could not grasp,” one young woman explained, “that we organized ourselves.” As shore explains, “Kremlin propaganda, the conviction that American intelligence or some other word-controlling force must be pulling the strings…””

p. 74 “But many of the propagandists of Autocracy, Inc., have learned from the mistakes of the twentieth century. They don’t offer their fellow citizens a vision of utopia, and they don’t inspire them to build a better world. Instead, they teach people to be cynical and passive, because there is no better world to build. Their goal is to persuade people to mind their own business, stay out of politics…”