Binding Chaos Quotes

“We are in a prison of our own minds holding our own chains around us. We create our oligarchs and fight for their right to oppress us.”
― Heather Marsh, Binding Chaos

“Your worst enemy is not the person in opposition to you. It is the person occupying the spot you would be fighting from and doing nothing.”
― Heather Marsh, Binding Chaos

“Functional societies need algorithms which reward us for being of service to those who need it most. Instead we have algorithms which reward us for being of service to those who need it least”
― Heather Marsh, Binding Chaos: Mass Collaboration on a Global Scale

“Self-governance does not mean no one is responsible. It means everyone is.”
― Heather Marsh, Binding Chaos

“All of society’s problems which could be solved by money, were caused by money.”
― Heather Marsh, Binding Chaos: Mass Collaboration on a Global Scale

“Where there is society, there is no need for charity.”
― Heather Marsh, Binding Chaos

“Between reaction and revolution there is nothing to choose. Neither leave the track, they just allow different people to drive while the same people are run over.”
― Heather Marsh, Binding Chaos

“Ponzi schemes don’t trickle down, they siphon up.”
― Heather Marsh, Binding Chaos

“Direct democracy is lazy anarchy, for people who don't want to be governed but are too lazy to govern themselves. They want participation served to them.”
― Heather Marsh, Binding Chaos: Mass Collaboration on a Global Scale

“Opportunists are promoted, realists are co-opted, idealists are frightened and radicals are shot.”
― Heather Marsh, Binding Chaos: Mass Collaboration on a Global Scale

“All ponzi schemes are upheld by a centripetal force caused by those orbiting the circles of power, celebrity and wealth and trying to get in. When the ponzi scheme reaches its point of maximum growth, the force disperses and the ponzi scheme collapses.”
― Heather Marsh, Binding Chaos: Mass Collaboration on a Global Scale

“The single greatest tool for making moral people commit atrocities is group affiliation. The single greatest tool for promoting global human rights and equality is to end group affiliation.”
― Heather Marsh, Binding Chaos

“Who controls the words controls your thoughts.”
― Heather Marsh, Binding Chaos: Mass Collaboration on a Global Scale

“Human rights don't trickle down.”
― Heather Marsh, Binding Chaos: Mass Collaboration on a Global Scale

“Our right to communicate is usurped by those with the access to audience.”
― Heather Marsh, Binding Chaos: Mass Collaboration on a Global Scale

“Get healthy, get strong, get educated and informed, and start contributing to your own governance.”
― Heather Marsh, Binding Chaos: Mass Collaboration on a Global Scale

“The world we live in is still mostly governed by a ponzi scheme of power, wealth and celebrity. Those at the top of the ponzi scheme are standing on nothing but the world’s acceptance of their right to be there.”
― Heather Marsh, Binding Chaos: Mass Collaboration on a Global Scale

“What is the difference between a terrorist and a soldier? The actions are now identical, both act to produce terror, so probably the only standing difference is that terrorists are non-government agencies. Remember that.”
― Heather Marsh, Binding Chaos: Mass Collaboration on a Global Scale

“We can tell the revolution has failed every time we look around and see the fraternity sitting astride the ideals of the voiceless and promising to ride them to a different place this time.”
― Heather Marsh, Binding Chaos: Mass Collaboration on a Global Scale

“In a war as huge as this, there will be many, many, leaders, in every location and aspect of the war. This is not a war for followers. It is the responsibility of each person to become as educated, informed and healthy as possible if you are to make a contribution.”
― Heather Marsh, Binding Chaos: Mass Collaboration on a Global Scale

“The revolutionaries are the Anonymous Cloud. You know them too. These are the people who have caused every successful revolution the world has ever seen. They have been likened to a flock of birds, a group of individuals who happen to decide all at the same time to head in the same direction. Some split off, in groups or singly, some are shot, but the flock will continue. If the entire flock is captured, a new flock will form. The idea is the thing, and if the idea is right it will survive.”
― Heather Marsh, Binding Chaos: Mass Collaboration on a Global Scale

“Wars are told from the point of view of arms dealers and politicians, disasters are interpreted by NGO’s, most issues are never covered at all. Official channels decide what will or will not be revealed and media are rewarded for their obedience by access to more official information.”
― Heather Marsh, Binding Chaos: Mass Collaboration on a Global Scale

“When your right to communicate is interrupted by those who would be your voice, your face or your representative, you are being subjected to the governance of another.”
― Heather Marsh, Binding Chaos: Mass Collaboration on a Global Scale

“The first right of any person in any society must be the right to communicate. Without communication there is no way to safeguard our other rights or for us to participate fully in a society.”
― Heather Marsh, Binding Chaos: Mass Collaboration on a Global Scale

“Corporate sponsored voice amplification will lead to corporate controlled oligarchy.”
― Heather Marsh, Binding Chaos: Mass Collaboration on a Global Scale

“Immigration has become a privilege of the elite instead of a right of the desperate.”
― Heather Marsh, Binding Chaos: Mass Collaboration on a Global Scale

“I prefer the pain of change to the bleak despair and silence of totalitarianism.”
― Heather Marsh, Binding Chaos: Mass collaboration on a global scale

“The Great Men create a clearly defined caste system of who are the saviours and who are the saved and the gates to ever escaping assigned status are carefully guarded.”
― Heather Marsh, Binding Chaos: Mass Collaboration on a Global Scale

“Living and breathing is not safe under a totalitarian dictatorship. The only way to keep yourself safe is to remove the totalitarian dictatorship.”
― Heather Marsh, Binding Chaos: Mass Collaboration on a Global Scale

“Between 2010 and 2012, Wikileaks was possibly the largest political megaphone in the world, and I had what was effectively an exclusive ability to provide human rights and political content to that megaphone.”
― Heather Marsh, Binding Chaos: Mass Collaboration on a Global Scale