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If nothing is true, then all is spectacle. The biggest wallet pays for the most blinding lights.
Timothy Snyder • On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
a lot of what the popular movements had been fighting for slowly began to work its way into the development of British political democracy [e.g. constitutional monarchy was established in 1689 and a Bill of Rights adopted]. And ever since then, every time popular movements have succeeded in dissolving power to a certain extent, there has been a dee
... See morePeter Mitchell • Understanding Power: The Indispensible Chomsky
The secret war, the scientific struggle, depended on that. Spying was a performance and the costume, the voice, the initial entrance were as vital as the lines themselves.
Matthew Richardson • The Scarlet Papers: The Times Thriller of the Year 2023
In the post-war period, much of the non-communist world was opened up to US domination by tactics of this sort. This became the method of choice to fight off the threat of communist insurgencies and revolution, entailing an anti-democratic (and even more emphatically anti-populist and anti-socialist/communist) strategy on the part of the US that pu
... See moreDavid Harvey • A Brief History of Neoliberalism
Hypernormalisation | Full Documentary | Adam Curtis
youtu.beLessig proposes a framework where behaviors of all sorts are regulated by four forces: law, code, norms, and markets.
Ethan Zuckerman • Mistrust: Why Losing Faith in Institutions Provides the Tools to Transform Them
state surveillance, social credit systems, law subservient to the state, and centrally planned economic activity—will be embedded into the future of money, diminishing the vibrancy and health of the global economy, individual liberty, and human advancement.