- We would all prefer an economy of small producers, but what we end up with instead, is an economy of massive, monolithic corporate-nations, which strip us to the bone of our productive and creative powers.
- Has there ever been an economic system which was not predicated on a form of slavery, overtly or tacitly?
- Surveillance is just one phase in the long cycle of the perpetual war by the state against the individual: it is the resting state.
- Banality is a slow-acting poison that modernity injects into its victims (us), so that the final act of killing is painless and easy. Passivity and stasis and predictability are not signs of a more secure world, they’re warning signals.
- Steven Pinker claims that the world, civilization, whatever is getting better — fair — but I think that is simply a matter of how you define ‘better.’ The earth is hotter, uglier, and human beings are incredibly isolated from one another. Is this better? Wouldn’t some of us choose the old world if we could, even if it were more violent, more dangerous, more unpredictable? — wouldn’t some people choose beauty, dirt, and chaos over this sanitized, wonderless modernity?
