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Even if it has no hostile intentions, even if it poses no danger, it is eliminated on the basis of its Otherness.
Byung-Chul Han • The Burnout Society
The sense of individual ingenuity provides the temporary conviction that one is on the winning side of the system, somehow coming out ahead; but in the end there is a generalized leveling of all users into interchangeable objects of the same mass dispossession of time and praxis.
Jonathan Crary • 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
As Charles Taylor puts it, in modernity we remade the human person into a “buffered self,” protected and autonomous and independent, free to determine our own good and pursue our own “authentic” path.
James K. A. Smith • On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
does not tyrannize, it hinders, compromises, enervates, extinguishes, dazes, and finally reduces each nation to being nothing more than a herd of timid and industrious animals of which the government is the shepherd.
Alexis de Tocqueville, Harvey C. Mansfield, • Democracy in America
Pris dans un système de production, les humains sont seuls à pouvoir se révolter — toujours trop tard ; pris dans un système d’engendrement, bien d’autres clameurs peuvent se faire entendre
Bruno LATOUR • Où atterrir ? (Cahiers libres)
Cette restriction progressive de toutes les libertés chez certains peuples, malgré une licence extérieure qui leur donne l'illusion de les posséder, semble être une conséquence de leur vieillesse tout autant que celle d'un régime quelconque. Elle constitue un des symptômes précurseurs de cette phase de décadence à laquelle aucune civilisation n'a p
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anarchy.
Matt Haig • The Humans
If none of us is prepared to die for freedom, then all of us will die under tyranny.
Timothy Snyder • On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
“Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.”