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A state of shock is what happens to us—individually or as a society—when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have an adequate explanation.
“Gather together, find your footing and your story.”
“In this to and fro the soul suffers, it feels torn and wounded.”
“Chaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered.”
movements that want to grow have to reach across silos and beyond the already converted.
Self-branding is yet another form of doubling, an internal sort of doppelganging.
“People take on these digital selves that are a more perfected version of themselves and where they can control things in a digital way that they can’t control in the analogue world,”
if every human is supposed to define and defend themselves as a fixed, rigid brand, then humanity itself was “being made less human”—less capable of changing and evolving, even in the face of pressing ecological and political crises.
we should not fear having voices in our heads—we should fear their absence.
When editors and journalists steer clear of important topics for fear that their audiences can’t cope with complex truths, it doesn’t throttle conspiracies—it fuels them.
“In many ways, nothing has really changed at all, but at the same time, everything has changed.”
It all would be so ridiculous—if it weren’t so serious.
the problem with democracy is not political elites everywhere who are beholden to the interests of corporations and financial markets, but a secret cabal of pedophiles planning to institute a world government.” Just as “the problem with the environment is not climate change, but the weaponization of science by a political agenda bent on changing our lifestyles and preventing growth.”
This is more than Upstairs, Downstairs; it’s a metaphor for all the Shadow Lands of capitalism and imperialism:
You are not you; you are your ethnic/racial/religious double, and you can’t shake that double because you did not create it.
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people,”
“Everything worthwhile is done with other people.”
are you willing to fight for that person who you don’t even know as much as you’re willing to fight for yourself?”
