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H.L. Mencken
“For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple and wrong.”
H. L. Mencken

Noam Chomsky
“If we do not believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we do not believe in it at all.”
Noam Chomsky

Christopher Lasch
“The same benefits misleadingly associated with religion — security, spiritual comfort, dogmatic relief from doubt — are thought to flow from a therapeutic politics of identity. In effect, identity politics has come to serve as a substitute for religion — or at least for the feeling of self-righteousness that is so commonly confused with religion.
These developments shed further light on the decline of democratic debate. ‘Diversity’ — a slogan that looks attractive on the face of it — has come to mean the opposite of what it appears to mean. In practice, diversity turns out to legitimize a new dogmatism, in which rival minorities take shelter behind a set of beliefs impervious to rational discussion.”
Christopher Lasch, The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy

J.G. Ballard
“The suburbs dream of violence. Asleep in their drowsy villas, sheltered by benevolent shopping malls, they wait patiently for the nightmares that will wake them into a more passionate world.”
J.G. Ballard, Kingdom Come

Albert Maysles
“Tyranny is the deliberate removal of nuance”
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