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When we say that “the world has ended,” remember—it is usually a lie. The planet is just fine.
No need for guards when you can convince people to collaborate in their own internment.
Damn
Conquerors live in dread of the day when they are shown to be, not superior, but simply lucky.
There are stages to the process of being betrayed by your society. One is jolted from a place of complacency by the discovery of difference, by hypocrisy, by inexplicable or incongruous ill treatment. What follows is a time of confusion—unlearning what one thought to be the truth. Immersing oneself in the new truth. And then a decision must be made.
anti oppression
But for a society built on exploitation, there is no greater threat than having no one left to oppress.
