Roger Hudd
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Roger Hudd
Putin’s Russia was not an old-fashioned totalitarian state, isolated and autarkic. Nor was it a poor dictatorship, wholly dependent on foreign donors. Instead, it represented something new: a full-blown autocratic kleptocracy, a mafia state built and managed entirely for the purpose of enriching its leaders.
Anne Applebaum • Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World
Destruction of expertise, analysis that isn’t State approved. Mindblinding: snuff out the thinkers
et the dynamo, next to the steam engine, was the most familiar of exhibits. For Adams’ objects its value lay chiefly in its occult mechanism. Between the dynamo in the gallery of machines and the engine house outside, the break of continuity amounted to abysmal fracture for a historian’s objects. No more relation could he discover between the steam... See more
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Education of Henry Adams
by the 1930s, Nazi propaganda would depict the mentally ill alongside modern art, offering their shared fractured faces as evidence of deep disturbance fit only for extinction. The degenerate would be the freak not just medicalized but eugenicized; the degenerate people and art deemed as such would be destroyed. Or auctioned off at a profit.
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the cheapest option in Africa or Latin America. No democratic government should ever assume that arguments for democracy or for the rule of law are somehow obvious or self-evident. Authoritarian narratives are designed to undermine the innate appeal of those ideas, to characterize dictatorship as stable and democracy as chaotic. Democratic media,
... See moreAnne Applebaum • Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World
The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions and the Unmaking of the World
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